Connecting
Since the mid-1960s, the family in Germany - like in other highly developed industrial societies, has undergone pronounced change processes. Many social scientists believe that marriage and family are going through a crisis; there is even occasional talk of the “death of the family”. Childlessness, single-parent family, and ageing population, the collapse of traditional family form has caused series of social problems and financial crisis; more children and adolescents no longer grow up during their entire childhood and adolescence with both birth parents.
in this inevitable trend, what impact will the new generation of digital and interaction design have on developing relationships between individuals?
This connecting project was developed and demonstrated as demo with SwiftUI framework.
Virtual Kinship
The rise of social networking has shown that virtualization is an important way to build connections in the future. Making virtual relationships more natural through more semantic means of interaction is the main innovation of this product. The Connecting is a wearable connectivity platform that enables a direct virtual relationship between two individuals in any location.
Charavter with unique presonality
Using the latest SwiftUI framework and Spritkit framework, combined with motion design, hundreds of character animations were created and graded according to their characteristics in order to create virtual characters with unique personalities.
Conclusion
What is an ideal alternative form to the contemporary family institution? There is no certain answer. But here is a possible direction, by the symbiosis of human and machines, the shifts of family form in future and the communication between individuals can be replaced and progressed, with characterisation in a virtual world, the gender, races, and skin tone those stereotypical conditions would be eliminated.
The complete demonstration of this project can be found in boweis design website.