Project Name:
The Dyslexperience:
Making the Invisible Diagnosis Visible
Domain:
Social Design; Inclusive Design; Projection Mapping
Duration:
August to October 2018
Team:
With Ng Ai Ling
Role:
Product Design. Design research; Concept direction; Storyboarding; Rapid prototyping, testing, production; Basic coding
Background: Blinded to dyslexia
In Singapore, while it is heartening news that more is being done for children with dyslexia in primary education, we realised that is a general lack of awareness or help extended for older kids or even adults.
The Dyslexperience is hence an empathy book to spread consciousness, specially designed in response to the indifference to dyslexia in our society. With the enhancement of projection mapping on a physical surface of a book, we designed a sensory experience to communicate the emotional ordeal faced by dyslexics everyday, allowing those who do not understand to see from the lens of those with dyslexia, making the invisible diagnosis visible.
This work is dedicated to Mark, the spark that inspired us, and all those who are afraid of others finding out about their learning differences.
Process: Making the invisible visible
For this project, we explored design opportunities in creating sensory experiences with digitally augmented surfaces. This is done by extending a material surface with digitally augmented layers through the creative use of physical objects combined with digital display technologies such as a digital projection, LCD panels, sound and haptic feedback devices.
The Dyslexperience is presented as an interactive installation to evoke natural behavioural reaction against our own audio, visual, haptic and cross-modal perception, raising awareness of how having dyslexia feels like.
Watch this video to view the entire experience: https://vimeo.com/309314167
Access our conference paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336626527_The_Dyslexperience_Use_of_Projection_Mapping_to_Simulate_Dyslexia
Awarded with the coveted Red Dot: Best of the Best in the Red Dot Award: Brands & Communication Design 2020;
Winner of Grand Prix of 2019 Taiwan International Student Design Competition; Best Demo award at ACM International Conference of Multimodal Interaction 2019; and Winner of Communication Arts Magazine 26th Interactive Annual Competition