Visual test_1

Step1: Recording your mood every day, and take some simple notes.

Key words: gather data, trend analysis method, (trend curve, trend comparison,) empathic design

Define culture shock

Culture surprise belongs to culture shock. It express on the surface level, and I don't think any culture shock are negative. It is passive, but we can learn from it.

Watch diary notebook( by Wonjune Song who is Korea designer.) The Watch Diary is a hardback paper notebook with an analog clock sitting in the middle. It seems like a schedule notebook, which has holes punched in its pages. (This, combined with a clever page design, makes for a rather intuitive scheduling tool.) It is really a useful book for those who always have to deal with various tasks. 

So I selected this form to record international students' mood when they go abroad to study. The setup time is not exactly 'clock' (1 min= 60 seconds, and 1 hour= 60 mins.) On my 'clock', (it stands for the date.) I min= 30 seconds, and 1 hour= 30 mins. The minutes hand take a turn which means 30-31 days. The hour hand indicates the 'month', and the minute hand point to 'date'. When we look back after some time these will be the trend curve.

Step2: Statistics----- To show your own 'w' curve.

The process of culture shock can be showed by a model known as the 'w' curve, but it is not designed to be precise in it. This model may not relate to your experience or only partially.