Go abroad——visual work

It takes about 12 hours from Beijing to London by plane. （full 12304 km)

Visual test_5

The previous black and this yellow, which one is more suitable?

Faces

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I am fascinated by the current massive study abroad, and how it affects the way we behave and interact. Also, my question is “how can participatory design raise aware of culture shock”? and explore a way to sharing the experience. This project works on the experience of Chinese students. It focuses on them and other people who are interested in Chinese students' culture shock. The aim is to guide people to deal with culture shock, and improve their living status in foreign country.

I would like to show you an iphone app which is a part of my final outcome, and it divided into 3 steps: gather data, statistics/ analysis, suggestion/ the stories you can share with others.

In the first step, you can choose 5 colors that stand for your mood such as ecstasy, happiness, calmness, anxiety and sadness, respectively. After that, record your mood and tap to add note... something like a diary. There are 7 main taps can be select like language, food, climate, values, social roles, ’rules’ of behavior and others (general reasons). According to the survery, these 7 elements are the main problems which can affect our study abroad. Basically, I have tracked a person's mood for a month.

In the second step, it shows the analysis of curve trend, and it will help you statistics which one is your key problem recently, and offer some suggestions. You will be reminded to pay attention to some which illustrate red color. It is warning. The information in this step come from website and others' stories/ experience (or my personal experience). They could not be the authoritative suggestions. These information I chose just present the problems of culture shock in other (funning) angle. Because I believe that culture shock is positive to some extent.

What's more, the process of culture shock can be broken down into five stages: (1) the honeymoon stage, (2) the distress stage, (3) the re-integration stage, (4) the autonomy stage, and (5) the independence stage. So it could be easy to realise which stage are you in right now.