Fenfen CHEN
” Kill Me, Help Me” is a mobile application game aiming to provide a medium to help the people understand phobia, ease fear, and bridge gaps.
Description
In this project, by showing common phobias and feedback from the user's face or voice in the front of fear, with the permission of the user, to enable the user to understand common fears and to generate the willingness to understand several major types of rare phobias, helping to create empathy and bridge gaps. ( Primarily between the people having uncommon phobias and others).The introduction and adaptation of the uncommon fears, as well as the gradual improvement of the rare fear collection and communication function, help to strengthen the help role of the app.
—Experience phobias with exposure
Players are exposed to the photos, audios, and videos of phobias based cognitive behavioral therapy.
—Three modes to terminate the experience of fears based on personal requests and instinctive reactions.
1. Manually exit: If you can't stand exposure to phobias any more, you can click the button to quit at any time.
2.Face detection: When the camera detects the player's fearful expression, it automatically exits the exposure process.
3. When the player says, “stop it,” the process of being exposed to fear is automatically terminated.
—Empathize with uncommon phobias by experiencing the physical discomfort of common fears.
—Mutual aid and mutual understanding
Multi-users experience uncommon fears at the same time, see how other users solve similar problems and give each other advice by typing messages.
—A collection of strange phobias
As user usage increases, more feedback will be received, followed by more fear modules to help more people ease their rare fears.
—Disclaimer
This application game is not intended to be a replacement for treatment nor any sort of medical intervention.
Research
Mobile therapy for phobia is not new, but the market for my product that builds connections with “common” and “rare” fears and collects “strange” phobias are not saturated.
Questionnaire-users
1. About what kind of situation can phobia attack, people believe that being in a real position where they are afraid of something and associating that with something they are fearful of can lead to that fear occur.
2. Slightly more than half of the people think their phobia is manageable, and in the way they overcome their fear, they are more likely to seek help from the outside world than to digest it themselves.
3. Of course, there are still some people who haven't found practical solutions to phobias. Some of them are helpless, but most of them are actively trying different approaches.
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