junomi - a game for better mental helth

 Making  families  play  together  

Amani  Naseem  &  Ida  To9  IT  University  of  Copenhagen  

Loneliness    and  Danish  teens  

Interviews  and    qualitaBve  research    

“I  think  that  it  is  important    that  they  know    how  I  am  feeling,    what  I  am  doing.    Otherwise  you  don’t  know    each  other!”  

Interviews  and    qualitaBve  research    

”It  is  important  that  they  know    how  I  am  feeling,    whether  I  am  happy  or  sad.    It’s  a  bit  like  I  think  that    parents  should  know    without  me  telling  them    about  it.”  (Girl  15  years  old)    

Interviews  and    qualitaBve  research    

“I  don’t  tell  them  anything    if  I  know  beforehand    that  it  will  become    unpleasant.”  (Girl  15  years  old)      

Interviews  and    qualitaBve  research    

“I  also  think  that  it  is    just  awkward  to  talk    with  ones  mother  about  it.  I  don’t  know  exactly,  I  can’t  really  talk    to  my  mother  about  it.”    (Girl,  17  years  old)    

Interviews  and    qualitaBve  research    

“it  is  just  that  way  …    I  don’t  know.  I  am  just  not  used  to  talking  with  my  parents  about  it.  I  just  think  ...  I  think  if  I  came  and  told  them  everything,    then  I  think  it  would  be    really  great  actually  …”    (Girl,  17  years  old)  

Interviews  and    qualitaBve  research    

Players  create    QuesBons    for  each  other  

…  and  place    Them  on  a  map  

As the family members walk around their daily parths they stumble upon these questions

For  example:  

…  or  

Experience  Prototyping  

Trying  out  the  game  concept  

"By  the  term  "Experience  Prototype"  we  mean  to  emphasize  the  experienBal  aspect  of  whatever  representaBons  are  needed  to  successfully  (re)live  or  convey  an  experience  with  a  product,  space  or  system.      So,  for  an  operaBonal  definiBon  we  can  say  an  Experience  Prototype  is  any  kind  of  representaBon,  in  any  medium,  that  is  designed  to  understand,  explore  or  communicate  what  it  might  be  like  to  engage  with  the  product,  space  or  system  we  are  designing.      (Buchenau  and  Suri,  2000)  

Experience  Prototyping  

Design  approach  and  consideraBons  

Play  with  everyday  situaBons  

Hints  –  helping  people  play  

InspiraBon  

 Encourage  ReflecBon    

Co-­‐located  Play  

The  studio  

JUNOMI  

And  experiment  with  their  lives  EnBcing  people  to  play  together  

And  create  a  feeling  closeness  To  discover  possibiliBes  

JUNOMI  

Thank  You  

idato9@itu.dk  and  amani@itu.dk