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Inspiration: Inducing empathic anxiety through pheromone cues Jerry Sherman: ‘When someone has angered me, I won’t count to ten before responding. Instead, I won’t respond until I have identified a time when I’ve done something similar to what the offender has done. I won’t say, “Ah, there but for the grace of God go [...] One of my bad habits is sharing news stories without checking their political bias or checking them against other sources. Some articles I post, especially those relating to topics like abortion or gun control, will incite flame wars on Facebook with friends of mine that share different viewpoints. This sort of pigeonholing of news into [...] Taking the anxiety and emotion and make a machine that shows the opposite of it. For example when you have heart rate going up, having an indication that you are actually calm. Reversing the scary physical implications. Taking the same machine and force calm people to experience the anxiety by giving not reliable physical indications. [...] In class, we mentioned that documentaries are one of the best ways in our new media world to generate empathy. I agree that in this form we can show both sides to a story and reveal our underlying intentions. Ultimately, I believe everyone is seeking happiness, freedom and security. A documentary would reveal both sides [...] Search Roulette Our search experiences are increasingly catered to our own bias and our own interests. Search roulette can be enabled to let you search using the profile catered to someone else’s searches.Their profile is anonymized but contains information about their demographics. By searching and getting the return of searches catered to someone [...] I’m working on a Facebook/Twitter app that parses out information that we freely give up about ourselves to understand our networks a little better. So far I’ve managed to get an idea the gender make up of my Facebook friends (53% male, 43% female, 4% undefined). If all my undefined friends are women, then I’d [...] This week in Rest of You we took a look at the rest of us and build a machine to expose our intuitive prejudices, and induce empathy with people with different intuitions. I decided to build upon my PComp final – the Wall Hanging Mood Ring. This is a simple CNC routed mirror frame with 3 [...] The Holy Virgin Mary – Chris Ofili In our group conversation on morality I found it particularly interesting to learn that in the general division of levels of morality there are moral concepts I had never really given much thought to – particularly sanctity vs degradation. Although it’s extremely difficult for me to think [...] I initially started off this week exploring a Chrome plugin that would surface alternative opinion to what was being read online. Kinda like a reverse Stumbledupon, or an Un-Recommendation Engine. In my research I found the source for a plugin that triggers sounds when taking certain browser actions — like creating and removing tabs, visting specific [...]
Hug{Cam} is an infrared camera that snaps a photo when two or more people hug. The camera is about creating the circumstances in which oxytocin is released into the body. Oxytocin is linked to trust, cooperation, and empathy. Ways to raise your oxytocin level. Recommended by Paul Zak who wrote the moral molecule. [...] I get frustrated with people who speak differently than I do. Dialect, vernacular, language… these heavily-researched social science topics become lumpy and gray in my mind, but, at the end of the day, I still don’t always enjoy conversing with someone who doesn’t speak the way I do. Being from the South, with a [...] FIND 10 DIFFERENCES – INSTALLATION FIND 10 DIFFERENCES – WEB FIND 10 DIFFERENCES – WEB Playing empathy is a system that operates by taking controversial data from different sources and asks the user to establish comparisons in playful ways. In this case, I am showing an installation comprised by two television sets. [...] Please see my Blog Post Embody the Other is for the curious at heart. The experience is possible with one or more person. When you participate alone you have the option to see all of the reader output that is generated while you relive pivotal moments from your life. The reader output is like a mirror that reveals [...] I’ve noticed that drivers feel a sense of entitlement to the road. They feel superior to pedestrians and bikers. I’ve often seen drivers yelling, speeding and honking their horns as a way to express their frustrations, causing not only noise pollution but also endangering people lives. I’ve always found road rage to be an incredibly counter productive expression of [...] My idea for an empathy-inducing machine is inspired by a book of short stories by Charles Yu called “Sorry Please Thank You.” The first story in the book, Standard Loneliness Package, talks about wealthy people in the future outsourcing their negative feelings to low-wage employees in a different country. Any heartbreak, guilt, even an uneasy dentist trip, [...] |
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