Portfolio of Jiang Yunshu

Yunshu Jiang · Portfolio

PROJECTS 01

·Night Wanderer: Museum guide design for people with night blindness

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·Lucid Dream: Healing space design for China's post-90s population

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·As You Wish: Interaction design based on punk permaculture

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·Wake: Virtual game design based on realistic problems

Night Wanderer

STARTING POINT

RESEARCH

What is night blindness?

Night blindness is poor vision or complete blindness in dark environments or at night. The root cause of night blindness is a lack of retinal cells in the fundus retina to synthesize retinas or a lesion of the retinal cells themselves. Night blindness is classified as congenital night blindness, temporary night blindness, or acquired night blindness. The three main types of night blindness are: congenital night blindness, temporary night blindness, and acquired night blindness.

https://youtu.be/Gi6eLRQ-BqY?si=kice14qPeqKEXHcK

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Museum guide design for people with night blindness

2023.01-03

This is a design idea derived from the dilemmas encountered in the author's life when visiting museums.

Combined with AR technology, it is hoped that it will make visiting museums as safe and enjoyable for people with night blindness as for others.

OBSERVATION

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Why is night blindness invisible in museums?

Night blindness can move normally outdoors in full daylight, while at night between dusk and sunset vision can be severely affected, making it impossible to see what is around you. And the illumination of the room at dusk is about 10 lux, under the night blindness has begun to have the symptoms of blurred vision.

According to the Samsung Pile Museum lighting designer, the light of museum artifacts is lower than 50 lux, while the environment is much lower than the light of artifacts. In this case, it is difficult for night blind people to see clearly for the environment in the venue, and it is easy to be dangerous when there are obstacles or steps on the ground.

THINKING

Night blindness among tourists

1.UV lamp 2.AR map navigation 3.Glow-in-the-dark paint 4.Fluorescent jellyfish

RESEARCH

SITE ANALYSIS

Chinese Museum Lighting Standards

Sanxingdui Museum is located in the west of Guanghan City, Sichuan Province on the banks of the Yuzi River, is a large modern thematic site museum, the average daily flow of visitors to the exhibition hall volume reaches a maximum of 19,000 people.

1.Showroom lighting is dim 2.Lack of clear directions in the museum

Visit the museum safely

Visitors have difficulty distinguishing the outline of objects Too many people will collide and crowd

To guide visitors to the correct and safe tour route

Mark the possible obstacles on the tour route

Conclusion For artifacts that are particularly sensitive to light, lamp illumination requirements are less than 50lux, and for visitors to see clearly, the ambient light level will be less than 50lux, and the exhibition halls dominated by these exhibits will be particularly dim for night blindness.

Sanxingdui Museum The exhibits in the collection include metal, pottery and stone tools, etc. For illumination of the artifact lighting high, so the environment The ambient lighting is particularly dim. At the same time, according to the research results the museum lacks necessary signage and guide signs. The museum also lacks the necessary signage and guidance signs.

EXPERIENCE MAP

INTERVIEW

Scenario: J is night-blind, he needs to visit the museum, but the light inside the museum is dark and he can't see the road well, so he needs to stay alert to visit safely.

·What role do you think museum lighting plays in your work A: I think the lighting inside the exhibition hall is to better highlight the details of the exhibits and allow visitors can better appreciate the exhibits, so the ambient light inside the exhibition hall is darker dark to highlight the exhibits on our work when the main impact is to enter the It takes some time to adapt to the light after entering the exhibition hall, and if there are visitors throwing garbage in the exhibition hall, it will be difficult to clean it up. It is more difficult to clean up if there are visitors throwing garbage.

Staff Interview

THINKING ·What kind of impression do you have about the lighting of the Sanxingdui Museum? and how it affected your visit.

Visitor Interview

Expectations：A safe and enjoyable visit to the museum.

Entering the venue

BEHAVIOR

A: First of all, the impression of the Sanxingdui Museum is that it is very dark inside the exhibition hall. The corresponding surrounding environment is not bright enough, in the course of the tour During the tour, some small obstacles or uphill can't be seen clearly, and it feels easy to I am a little worried about falling down. I also feel that there are not enough signs to guide the way There is a possibility of getting lost.

EMOTIONALFLUCTUATION

Touring process

1. Find the tour route 2. Find the signage 3. Follow the guide line 4. Walk into the venue 5. Adapt to the darker light in the arena

6. Find tour instructions 7. Look for the surrounding light source 8. Close to the wall or display case 9. Follow the crowds 10. Pay attention to the safety of the feet and around

-Incompatible with large changes in light -Nervous about not being able to see the road -Unable to recognize the direction

-Could not see the exhibit description -Incognizable visitors around -Disappointed with the reduced tour experience

Expectant bewildered Curious Stressful

OPPORTUNITIES

SWOT ANALYZATION

-Easier identification of directions in the arena -Optimized light and dark changes -Increasing the number of signs Increase the number of signs

Worried Disappointed

-Text is easier to see in the arena -Optimized signage for tour routes -Smaller light sources that may need to be carried around

The technology is complete and the research in this area is relatively well developed.

The audience is broad, and normal visitors other than those with night blindness can be served.

For the museum itself is also a way to display exhibits.

Potentially higher costs Complex user requirements Technology is not mature enough

People will be more interested.

Previous services in the area of night blindness for this population were relatively blank.

Combining virtual scenarios with reality is a new area that Chinese museums are currently involved in.

It will take some time to get visitors to accept the new approach.

Virtual tours launched by online museums.

Technical limitations of AR glasses.

TECHNOLOGY SUPPORT

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The object to be tracked is pre-processed, its various characteristics are stored, and then the images in the video stream are analyzed in real time to calculate the relative position of the tracking system and the object to be tracked.

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Polarization array waveguide technology

Gesture control Wired control

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Bluetooth technology Visitors Offline Guided Tours

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Museum Tour Hardware Manufacturing Staff

Manufacturer

The light from the image source is collimated by the eyepiece system and coupled into the waveguide by the reflective surface of the waveguide, and the light from each field of view propagates in the waveguide according to the total reflection theorem.

Software Developer Technical maintenance staff

The technology applied in Bluetooth technology is to establish a common communication environment between fixed or mobile devices.It is a short-range wireless interface.

Gesture control technology Head-mounted computing devices have built-in processors that are configured by software instructions to receive trigger signals from at least one computing device mounted on the extremities.

DESIGN SKETCHES

How To Use

OUTCOME

Front View

Rendergraph

User View

STARTING POINT

LUCID DREAM

THINKING high levels of anxiety and depression

VR Healing space design for China's post-90s population

China's post-90s face a lot of pressure in their lives

2023.04-05 https://youtu.be/0s1KG-JC22c?si=qcwncTz4fwwFAjtJ

The psychological regression that occurs in the face of great stress

It is a VR interactive space designed for Chinese post-90s youth who are trapped in anxiety and stress, aiming to make people feel relaxed and better receptive to psychological healing through moderate retreats.

Benign regression conducive to healing can occur in a safe environment China's post-90s are known as the most anxious generation, facing the dual pressure of supporting the elderly and raising children, as well as the need to constantly work overtime themselves. Financially there are also mortgage, car loan and salary pressure. Under the torture of these pressures, many post-90s young people have symptoms of depression and anxiety.

Using kid core to create a regressive environment

RESEARCH

Why is the anxiety phenomenon of the post-90s group in China so serious?

The post-nineties account for 14.1% of China's total population.

14.1% There are 95 million depressed people in China, 52% of whom are between the ages of 18 and 30, which fits right into the approximate range of the post-90s.

52% aged 18~30

Depression Index Anxiety index

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age 25~34

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This graph shows the anxiety and depression indices for adults of different ages in China, from which it can be seen that the depression and anxiety indices for 18-34 year olds are higher than for other ages.

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The pressure of the post-90s is reflected in all aspects, one of the most intuitive manifestations is work pressure. 47.9 per cent of the overtime population is post-90s, and many of them work overtime for more than two hours.

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In terms of social impact

China's post-90s live in a rapidly changing society, facing fierce competition and an uncertain future, feeling unsure and dissatisfied with their abilities and values. They have also experienced the turbulence and conflicts of social transition, such as SARS, the Wenchuan earthquake and stock market fluctuations, which have challenged their psychological stability and sense of security.

In terms of family impact

Due to China's d one-child policy, most of the post-90s are only children, who not only have to bear the high expectations and strict discipline from their parents and teachers, but also face the attention and interference from their four elders. They lack the companionship and support of their siblings, as well as the communication and interaction with their peers.

In terms of Internet impact

The post-90s are the natives of the Internet, and they have been exposed to smartphones and social media since they were young, but this has caused them some problems. They are prone to comparison and envy of others' living conditions, as well as pressure and criticism from online opinion. They may also become addicted to online games and videos, which affect their studies and quality of life.

BENIGN REGRESSION 1. Benign degeneration: In benign regression, all that the object, the analyst, has to do is to create and maintain the right atmosphere for the patient to regress. The patient automatically emerges from his or her primitive world after treatment and is cured; this regression is called benign regression.

2. Advantages of benign regression:

According to Jung, regression activates an archetype of the unconscious that is rich in racial intelligence. This racial intelligence often ensures that a person is able to successfully solve the pressing problems that he faces in real life.

3. Theoretical studies of benign degeneration: Ernst Kris supplements Freud's general formulations with a specific notion of "regression in the service of the ego"...the specific means whereby preconscious and unconscious material appear in the creator's consciousness'. Carl Jung had earlier argued that 'the patient's regressive tendency...is not just a relapse into infantilism, but an attempt to get at something necessary...the universal feeling of childhood innocence, the sense of security, of protection, of reciprocated love, of trust'.

KIDCORE

INSPIRATION

According to the research that a controlled and benign regression in a safe and comfortable environment is a good start for psychological healing.In this environment people can recapture the innocence and relaxation of childhood and relieve the stresses of adult life in a relaxed way.

What is kidcore?

Kidcore is an aesthetic that centres on bright colours, nostalgia for 90s icons and a childlike theme. The main focus is on nostalgia and fantasy of childhood days through the use of old photographs, vintage tones and blurred effects.

Childcore is characterised by creating a warm, peaceful and innocent atmosphere, giving the impression of being transported back to those carefree times. Childcore often has a hazy aesthetic that evokes an ineffable emotion. The creators of Child's Core are often millennials, and through Child's Core they express their memories of the past and their expectations for the future.

Eva cremers -Realistic scenes combined with fantasy objects -Smooth texture -Anthropomorphism -Combination of opaque and translucent elements -Highly reflective materials -Smooth and full protrusions

Lorien stern -Bubble -Fantasy color scheme -Haziness -Low saturation -Blur -Element stacking -Decorative and realistic objects

Common Elements of Kidcore

Chun eunsil -Gentle gradients -Watercolor style -Childlike -Properly change the proportion between objects -Fairy-like interaction

Mariko Kusumoto -Low saturation -Warm tones -Personalization -Mellow and lovely -Jelly texture -Same color matching

DRAFTS

MODEL

USER FEEDBACK I like the first draft before the refinement.

Although it looks a bit cluttered, it creates a fantasy feeling instead, with a sense of kidcore whimsy. And the objects stacked in it span a wide range, whether it is a boy or a girl, whether born in 1990 or 1999, you can find the corresponding memories.

Process

Yuri， born in 1995

I prefer the second sketch, which really looks like the room I had as a child, but with some fantasy elements added, like a familiar but strange dream, so that I can feel relaxed and happy. If I could rest in such a room I think it would be very wonderful. But if it's someone else, I'm not sure, it's just my personal feeling.

Tiki， born in 1999

I can sense what you are trying to convey from these two drawings. But I think it could be more imaginative, for example by becoming translucent, or changing the proportions of some objects.Both of these are too much like a normal room, I think.It could be made more unconventional if used as a healing space.

Yoa， born in 2002

VR EXPERIENCE AND FEEDBACK “ The whole scene is dreamy and childlike, and a lot of things in it remind me of childhood memories, which is fun. At the same time the colour scheme and decorative style make me feel warm and it's an environment where I can relax. ”

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YOU Installation 2022.06-08

WISH

STARTING POINT

RESEARCH The underlying cause of punk permaculture is the immense pressure on young people.

Always stay up late, but take a lot of supplements to prevent sudden death and baldness

"if you don't work hard, you will fall behind, and if you fall behind, you will be eliminated" remind young people all the time, which makes the social anxiety spread to all corners of the society.The accumulation of work pressure makes the body age of young people does not match the actual age, and even the phenomenon of premature aging of the body.

Drink coffee in the morning to refresh and drink alcohol at night to help sleep

https://youtu.be/JsCHXQh_7yk?si=0ZqRN0p_cXUgLQee

Love junk food but work hard to get fit In China in recent years, especially in the post epidemic era, young people have begun to pay more attention to their own health, but at the same time, due to the enormous social pressure, people are forced to struggle at the cost of their own health and even their lives.

Under this contradiction, the punk health culture has begun to flourish, and based on this cultural phenomenon, I made this interactive installation.

Believes in both metaphysics and science

Because they can't change their current state of life and habits, young people can only hope to "punk health" to give themselves a little psychological relief.

WHAT IS PUNK HEALTH ?

One of the core features of punk permaculture is the deliberate collage of two cultural styles with very different content and cultural landscapes.

Punk in Punk health refers to young people's defiance and questioning of the orderly world framework and the so-called political center. Health preservation is the worship of health and the pursuit of mainstream values. Punk health, the word, is a symbol of rebellion and obedience.

Punk, which emerged from the American and British proletariat, began in the 1970s as a musical counterpoint to existing forms of popular music, including avant-garde rock and heavy metal, and then evolved into a broader punk cultural style and form.

CONCLUSION - It is a cultural struggle of resistance and compromise, rebelling against traditional notions of permaculture and authoritative values, but also making compromises and saving oneself under the pressure of reality.

- It is a practical expression of a contradictory synthesis, collaging, appropriating and joining elements that do not match, forming a disorderly, messy and irregular representation, as a way to manifest individuality and difference.

The culture of health care is a medical model featuring the "treatment of diseases before they occur". It is a medical activity that aims to prolong life by nourishing life, strengthening the body, and preventing disease through various methods.

- It is a kind of concern and cherishing of the body, stemming from the alert to the health problems of the fathers and the investment in one's own body capital, as well as the retrieval and protection of the deprived and alienated body.

- It is an expression of anxiety and powerlessness, stemming from a lack of understanding and distrust of health standards, dissatisfaction and discomfort with life and work, and uncertainty and lack of expectation for the future.

INTERVIEW ·Are you often forced to stay up late for various external reasons? ·Do you know anything about punk health? ·Do you think this phenomenon brings you more positive or negative effects? ·What do you think about this phenomenon and your own understanding of it? ·Often stay up late because of homework. ·The concept is often brought up, and students use it to laugh at themselves. ·Of course there were more negative effects, and the process made me feel stressed and more anxious. ·As much as I hate this behavior, I feel like it is a trade off that has to be made and I am very aware of what my depleted health will bring me. ·Sometimes it does, like during finals month. ·See a lot on memes. ·I'm not sure. ·Maybe it's a general trend? I don't feel anything in particular, everyone around me does it so I do too.

·Often work overtime so stay up a lot ·Saw it a lot on the internet. ·There are many negative effects and it is a total exploitation of young people. ·It's like a gamble where we have to trade our lives for some nebulous achievement. But it's like we can't change anything. I don't know, I feel so powerless.

INSPIRATION

MIND MAP TECHNOLOGY Young people who regularly engage in punk permaculture behavior

Twister Infrared sensing technology Information visualization

Punk permaculture interaction device

Atomic Heart & A distinctive feature of both Hajime Sorayama's paintings and the game Atomic Heart is the use of strong metallic materials to reflect the futuristic attributes of the objects themselves, with the contrast between highly reflective metals and frosted materials emphasizing the technological attributes and cyberpunk atmosphere.

<Dr. Knock or The Triumph of Medicine>

WHY Virtual character image design Sensor interaction Poster display

-Actually a negative behavior -Most young people feel powerless to change -I hope to draw attention to it -Make people think about the meaning of this behavior

<Dr. Knock or The Triumph of Medicine> is a 1923 satirical comedy written by French writer Jules Romains, which tells the story of making a healthy man into a sick man. Konok represents the triumph of modern medicine. Modern medicine is not a single medical treatment, but a system of medical treatment that is part of industrial civilization. Modern medicine has been labeled with the dominant discourses of "science," "technology," and "progress," and has been given the supreme right to interpret the body and disease. In the process of Konoco's functioning, doctors and pharmaceutical companies have entered into a partnership that "commodifies" the life process. Commodification basically means that all things of value can be transformed into goods or objects that can be sold in the market at a price, and it is a process as well as a way of life and a social structure.

TECHNIQUE RESEARCH Twister: "Twister Toys" is a small vending machine to sell goods. The way to buy is to put a coin into the handle and then rotate the handle, the toy in the plastic container can be removed when it falls. This concept first originated in the United States and began in about 1920. Later, this type of vending began to appear in Japan in 1965, and has since flourished in Japan. The typical content of a twisted egg is a plastic egg shell that can be opened in half and contains a toy and instructions.

PIR sensor: A passive infrared sensor (PIR sensor) is an electronic sensor that measures infrared (IR) light radiating from objects in its field of view. All objects with a temperature above absolute zero emit heat energy in the form of electromagnetic radiation. Usually this radiation isn't visible to the human eye because it radiates at infrared wavelengths, but it can be detected by electronic devices designed for such a purpose.

MODEL

DRAFTS Punk health vending machine

Health-preserving Buddha

OUTCOME

Punk health vending machine

Demonstration video

https://youtu.be/XFJOI3RYnuk?si=8Vel5nzzQFccURF3

STARTING POINT #Sudden death of 28-year-old ByteHop employee#

WAKE Game design

#Shanghai programmer working overtime at 2am vomits blood# Half of programmers will work 8 to 12 hours, and there are even popular comments that programmers don't need sleep.

RESEARCH Why do people feel sleepy?

(i) Homeostatic system theory: The human brain secretes a chemical called adenosine, an important substance in the homeostatic system. Adenosine is a substance that triggers drowsiness. The longer a person is awake, the more adenosine builds up in the brain and the more sleepy the person feels. (ii) Circadian system theory: Melatonin begins to be secreted when a person is in a dark environment, and when the eyes do not perceive light, a group of cells that are essentially photoreceptor ganglia of the retina are responsible for receiving the signal and sending it to the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). the SCN is the equivalent of the brain's timer, which prompts the release of melatonin from the pineal gland.

2021.12-2022.03 What would happen if humans evolved to not need sleep? This project is based on this question, starting from the phenomenon of frequent sudden deaths of programmers and the public's stereotype of programmers as "not needing sleep", and reflecting the worries about the labour oppression behind the phenomenon of excessive overtime work of programmers by telling the story of a programmer in the virtual world view. #Remarks on forums about programmers not needing to sleep#

(iii) GABA inhibitory nervous system theory: in the human brain, there are excitatory nervous system and inhibitory nervous system, when the night comes, the pineal gland in the brain secretes melatonin, at this time, the inhibitory nervous system begins to work, so that people go to sleep.

Methods of staying awake through external stimulation For humans, one way to stay awake and alert is to stimulate an area of the brain called the locus coeruleus (LC). This cluster of nerves is located in the brainstem and innervates the entire central nervous system. It also produces norepinephrine, which has an excitatory effect on most parts of the brain, enhancing the state of wakefulness and preparing the brain's neurons to respond to future stimuli. Several studies have shown that vagus nerve stimulation may improve memory and cognitive abilities, increase neuronal plasticity, and enhance attention and decision-making in both animals and humans.

Biomedical researchers at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in the US used the principle of cervical transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (ctVNS) to keep subjects highly awake for 34 hours, during which time they performed a number of simulated tasks. Specifically, by massaging a gamepad-like device into each side of the neck for a few minutes, subjects were able to dramatically improve their cognitive and emotional states in a fatigued state.

The study was published in Communications under the title " Cervical transcutaneous vagal nerve stimulation (ctVNS) improves human cognitive performance under sleep deprivation stress "The study was published in the journal Communications biology.

Why programmers often stay up late？ Because of the visual stimulation of facing a monitor, one tends to ignore the fatigue that This, coupled with frequent typing and clicking Will cause you to constantly and actively focus your attention. It's not easy to relax. Your threshold for fatigue is raised even higher. This prevents your biological clock from notifying you that it's time to rest.

For those of us programmers who work on large virtual systems and need to keep everything involved in our heads, someone once compared it to building a house out of expensive crystals that collapses and shatters into pieces when someone interrupts. In fact, talk to many employees and you'll find that they feel like they simply can't get any work done during the day. Constant interruptions, focusing on important things, and answering emails don't allow them to work. So they choose to get most of their work done late at night when everyone else is sleeping.

Similar to Balmer's Peak, fatigue makes it easier for us to focus because when your brain is fatigued, it has to focus! There is no extra brain power to keep you from concentrating. I seem to get the least amount of work done after too much tea or energy drinks at inappropriate times. These keep me active and I keep tripping myself up because I can't concentrate for more than two seconds. However, when I'm slightly tired, I'm able to sit down and code. With a somewhat fatigued brain, I can code hour after hour. Fatigue dulls you so that you can only attend to the task at hand.

Why Chinese programmers are unemployed at 35?

1. Decay of physical ability: Long hours of intense mental labor cause damage to both the body and the mind. People need more rest but the pressure of work is not reduced, so they often feel overwhelmed and find it difficult to achieve the efficiency of young programmers.

2. Short training cycle for programmers: programmers do not have a high entry barrier and are in oversupply in the job market, so employers are more inclined to hire young people who are more efficient and flexible at a lower cost.

3. Enterprises pay more attention to the cost-effective screening of employees: the nature of the employee for the enterprise is a part, the enterprise needs employees to continue to produce value. When the cost-effectiveness of the newcomer is higher than that of the old man, the enterprise will choose the one that can create more profits.

It is impossible for human beings not to sleep, BUT not sleeping can create more benefits for the company.

In the future, driven by this need emerged programmers who used external stimuli to stay awake without having to sleep.

Why choose games as a medium to present ideas?

1. Player coverage can cause more people to resonate with each other 2. Stronger sense of immersion 3. Strong narrative, capable of presenting a complete story.

Basic Game Settings

Vagus Nerve Stimulation Device (VNSD) Factory-uniformly configured to stimulate the vagus nerve of programmers to enable them to stay awake, focused and productive. Most importantly, it allows them to stay awake for long periods of time without needing to sleep until the end of the workday when they can remove the device and rest.

CHARACTER SUE The daughter of a company executives, because of curiosity to sneak into the programmer factory, two consecutive chance encounters with No. 709 and No. 709 and befriended, after understanding that the programmers live a very depressing life, and tried to lead No. 709 to escape from the factory.

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One of the many programmers in the factory, on a project team that is developing a virtual life related project aimed at creating a more perfect world for people who are keen on virtual reality, has a busy job. The protagonist and someone from the same class passed an assessment to enter the factory as a teenager and hasn't been out since.

After meeting SUE, he thought that SUE was just an illusion of himself, and although he followed SUE and ran out of the factory but still believed that only the factory where he lives is the real world.

Original Drawings of Important Scenes Debriefing Centre

Corridor

Office

The Robot that executed 709

GAME SCREENSHOT