Jiahua Fan
What should designers do for a better future? The ever-changing technologies make people's lives more and more convenient, people can obtain various services and experiences without leaving their homes, and people's space and thoughts have been compressed. People's face-to-face interaction is blocked by technological products. Will people in the future lose many intuitive abilities in existing social methods, such as the ability to communicate non-verbally?
People will make great efforts to regain their instincts. Lack of physical cues leads to miscommunication. In the future, more and more people will suffer from online autism. They lose the ability to communicate non-verbally, which makes them fail to express themselves and give feedback as listeners. They need props to translate their inner thoughts into body language so that the conversation can go smoothly without misunderstandings.
People will make great efforts to regain their instincts. Lack of physical cues leads to miscommunication. In the future, more and more people will suffer from online autism. They lose the ability to communicate non-verbally, which makes them fail to express themselves and give feedback as listeners. They need props to translate their inner thoughts into body language so that the conversation can go smoothly without misunderstandings.
Operation logic –
Combining the existing experimental analysis and watching multiple interview dialogue videos, I chose to integrate verbal information, paralinguistic information, eyes' information, heart rate, and micro body language to determine the trigger timing of non-verbal information under multiple conditions, and divide the feedback into different categories. There are two levels for weak feedback and strong feedback, when more signals are captured, the stronger feedback will be triggered.
This is a design to assist people in non-verbal conversations at the dinner table. Many conversations take place at the dinner table. At this moment, cutlery has become a very suitable prop.
Conversation analysis & Vocabulary –
Listeners generally convey three basic information in non-verbal communication: participation status, opinions, and feelings. Taking head movements as an example, listeners can express lots of meanings by nodding or shaking their heads, and changing the frequency and amplitude of head movements.
People who do not use nonverbal information can’t give these essential information to the speaker when listening, and they appear to be out of the conversation, which leads to miscommunication.