Experience with Your Loved One in COVID-19 Home Quarantine

Masaki Iwabuchi

Wanderlust into (y)our past is a web-based virtual time travel experience that aims to mediate a bond with a partner, family member, roommate, and loved ones in COVID-19 home quarantine.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, couples and families are learning how to co-exist healthily in quarantined life where they live together all the time in a confined space.

World Health Organization has been warning a rise in domestic violence in many countries during quarantine, and experts have predicted an increase of divorce cases in the future.

Under the circumstances, Wanderlust into (y)our past takes couples and families together to a virtual time travel to the places where they have been in the past and nudges them to share personal memories.

Through these interpersonal dialogues of the past, this system encourages them to consider each other and take collaborative and prosocial actions towards the new normal in the post-pandemic.


About
Masaki creates serendipitous moments.

Organizer of Speculative Futures Tokyo

Design Educator at Artelligence

Chief Design Officer at Artrigger

Formerly UX Design Lead at IBM

I will have a next talk at Pivot2020 on June 4th.
Masaki creates serendipitous moments.

Organizer of Speculative Futures Tokyo

Design Educator at Artelligence

Chief Design Officer at Artrigger

Formerly UX Design Lead at IBM

I will have a next talk at Pivot2020 on June 4th.
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