Growing Pains
Growing Pains
Growing Pains is a collaborative collection of moments when people saw their parents as regular people.
Growing Pains is a collaborative collection of moments when people saw their parents as regular people.
This academic project is composed of a three-fold experience where people's stories are displayed in the following ways:
This academic project is composed of a three-fold experience where people's stories are displayed in the following ways:
1. Mobile web app.
1. Mobile web app.
2. Sentiment graph.
2. Sentiment graph.
3. Visualization of interviews.
3. Visualization of interviews.
My Role
My Role
I designed a platform for a collection of people's stories about the time they realized their parents are just regular people.
I designed a platform for a collection of people's stories about the time they realized their parents are just regular people.
The project
The project
Intergenerational trauma and empathizing
Intergenerational trauma and empathizing
Psychological studies show that not making peace with our family's past affects our future negatively through intergenerational trauma. Dealing with said trauma is important to live a happy life, but this process can be hard to start. Sometimes all we need is a little help.
Psychological studies show that not making peace with our family's past affects our future negatively through intergenerational trauma. Dealing with said trauma is important to live a happy life, but this process can be hard to start. Sometimes all we need is a little help.
This project's goal is to arise questions in people about their family's past through empathizing with other people's stories, and maybe kickstart a process of making peace with said past.
This project's goal is to arise questions in people about their family's past through empathizing with other people's stories, and maybe kickstart a process of making peace with said past.
Mobile web app
Mobile web app
All of the stories are collected and accessible in the mobile web app.
All of the stories are collected and accessible in the mobile web app.
The web app allows people to access all of the stories, and also encourages people to share their own. Each story is symbolized by a shape and color.
The web app allows people to access all of the stories, and also encourages people to share their own. Each story is symbolized by a shape and color.
You can check it out and all of the stories by going to www.growingpains.me (mobile only), and share the moment you saw your parents as regular people to be part of the collective healing platform.
You can check it out and all of the stories by going to www.growingpains.me (mobile only), and share the moment you saw your parents as regular people to be part of the collective healing platform.
Sentiment Graph
Sentiment Graph
In today's world, sentiment analysis is already a reality through AI and LLMs like GPT.
In today's world, sentiment analysis is already a reality through AI and LLMs like GPT.
In this visualization the stories are placed in the sentiment graph, and when a user inputs a story it's placed accordingly by sentiment and age group.
In this visualization the stories are placed in the sentiment graph, and when a user inputs a story it's placed accordingly by sentiment and age group.
The three-fold experience is meant to allow anyone to connect to a story in a way that's natural to them. This visualization encourages analytical minded people to understand the graph and wonder where their own story would be placed, serving as a point of entry to the project.
The three-fold experience is meant to allow anyone to connect to a story in a way that's natural to them. This visualization encourages analytical minded people to understand the graph and wonder where their own story would be placed, serving as a point of entry to the project.
Interview visualizations
Interview visualizations
The most personal way to experience the stories.
The most personal way to experience the stories.
A select number of people are platformed and tell their personal account of their stories. Visualizations augment the stories, yet keep them anonymous.
A select number of people are platformed and tell their personal account of their stories. Visualizations augment the stories, yet keep them anonymous.
If the sentiment graph serves as a point of entry for analytical minded people, the interview visualizations serve people that are closer to their own emotional side.
If the sentiment graph serves as a point of entry for analytical minded people, the interview visualizations serve people that are closer to their own emotional side.
Conclusion
Conclusion
The three-fold experience was available during the project's exhibition that happened in July 2023, where dozens of people shared their own stories.
The three-fold experience was available during the project's exhibition that happened in July 2023, where dozens of people shared their own stories.
It was important for me to have Growing Pains be available outside of the gallery's bounds. That's why all of the stories can be accessed anytime and anywhere through the mobile web app where people can kickstart the process of healing from anywhere.
It was important for me to have Growing Pains be available outside of the gallery's bounds. That's why all of the stories can be accessed anytime and anywhere through the mobile web app where people can kickstart the process of healing from anywhere.
