A Mobility Interaction Project
A collaboration by-
Radhakrishnan AR
Chetna Kaur
Ishaan Ghonsikar
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Mentored by - Mandar Kale
Sector:
System Design, UI/ UX, Business Model
Challenge:
Reimagining the future of Leisure Travel in the metaverse
Role:
Researcher, Ethnographer, 3D Model, Prototyping, UI/ UX, Identity, Business plan, User testing
Time:
A Group Speculative Design project for 4 Months with HFI
What do we feel about consumer travel?
Goal Driven
Recreational
Adventure
Healthcare
Education
Emotion Driven
Challenge Self
Celebration
Socialize
Soul searching
Escape
Deal with things
Travel from one feeling to another
Looking at leisure travel not from point A to B, but
A new perspective on travel
Citizen Panel
User Group
Gen z
21 - 25
Characteristics
Fresh Graduates - Working
Newly independent
First Tier Cities
Nuclear Family
Variables
Travel Exposure
Budget for Leisure
Conservative / Liberal
Panel Demographics
26
People
12
Selected
6
6
Bangalore (8)
Chennai (2)
Jaipur (1)
UK (1)
Oh Pondicherry
Research field trip encompassing leisure travel today
A new perspective on travel
4 Pillars of Meta-Travel
Transaction
How can metaverse enable co-ownership of things?
Identity
Memories
How can leisure travel happen through identities?
Freedom
How can we bring back the value of memories in metaverse?
How can we get freedom from metaverse?
A New Outlook
Old Repercussion + Foucault
Metaverse is viewed as this futuristic medium that will redefine our reality but it is built by our past.
We can deconstruct the notion of travel in the past to design the metaverse.
Social Theories + Critical Thinking
Bourdieu
Influence of our surroundings on our behaviour.
Foucault
Influence of history on the power dynamics of the society.
Habermas
Competitive and communicative actions
Our Possible Meta Future
Preferred
Accessibility within Meta
Sense of Belonging
Self Conscious Contributors
Building a system with symmetric distribution of capital.
Giving the users a sense of belonging over the platform
Not having your vision confined to your habitus
To win one you need to lose one
The realization you are the product/ guinea pig
Their habitus limits users' vision.
Distributing power over an 'entity' at an exchange
Contributors
Users
Field
Habitus
IDEAS! IDEAS! IDEAS!
The Parallel Universe
Enabling digital reboot from reality to allow users to break away from momentary stress.
Metamorphosis
Escaping our baggage to take complete ownership of the perception of our experience.
Symphony
Developing a sense of co-ownership amongst its visitors to build a symbiotic relationship.
Developing a sense of co-ownership amongst its visitors to build a symbiotic relationship.
Symphony
+Building
+Visitors
+Symbiotic Relationships
+Co-ownership
+Identity
+City
Humans around Trees
Growth never comes at the cost of others
Zoomed out ecosystems work hand in hand with zoomed-in ecosystems
The layers store the story of the tree
Energy never dies, it gets transferred
Citizen Panel Review
Bridging
Bonding
Expert review
Insights
The transition towards selfishness (from college to job)
Fantasy to think beyond and be creative
Desire to interact with people to broaden perspectives
Fear of the metaverse increasing the gaps between the physical and virtual world
A Meta city where we all can travel to escape uncertainty in order to relieve stress.
Gratitude
Directionless Interactions
Symbiosis
Meaningful Relationships
Final Concept
Transfer energy to Meta Soul
Meta soul help you interact and experience better with ecosystem.
Makes the tree flourish
Gratitude points for contributors
Storyboard
1) Break away to be in a space to let go of your emotions!
2) Enter on the spot right near your friends
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3) Explore the ecosystem with your Meta soul
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4) Your movement slows down if you wish to approach an interesting avatar during your exploration.
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5) By shaking hands with the person, tags emerge to provide additional information about them
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6) Your interaction forms a small node, which expands with additional interactions over time
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7) The Nodes grow into Cocoons and act like touchpoints for future interactions between groups.
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8) These groups also visualize themselves into layers of friend groups based on interactions.
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9) Keeping in touch with a friend has never been easier
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10) Immerse into Gaia through a mobile plug-in as well.
11) Seasons change to celebrate nodes created in past and possibility in future
Emotional Journey
Before
Direction
Directionless
Day Starts
Losing Control
Overwhelmed
Breaking Point
Escape
Freedom
Dopamine High
Inertia of Mind
Mismatch of Intentions and outcomes
Regret
Force
After Gaia
Emotional Journey
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Directionless
Emotional Storm
Direction
Release Emotions
Emotionally Light
Silence after Storm
Analysis
Reflection
Reaction
Relief
Key Interactions
Journey Map
Prototype
Hover for Magic
5pm-8pm
DAILY
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Business Model
Discovering Local Hotspots
The Platform value revolves around conversations.
The value of a place rises as it's talked about more in stories and memories.
Incentivize meeting your soul mates in the physical world. (offers in local hotspots)
Recommend local hotspot to meet that is relatable to the stories.
Creating local communities in physical spaces.
