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Vibe Check
Imperial College London 2021



Intention

Developing emotional intelligence enables us to relate to others and build stronger relationships. Improving our ability to perceive, understand, and manage emotions empowers us to act based on reason, which is crucial for exercising a free act.

Context

Children in the concrete operational stage begin to recognize and label emotions. Increasing their interactions with people through digital mediums can aid this development. For example, grandparents, a generation rich with stories, often have fewer people to share them with.

Solution

 A cross-generational board game to improve emotional intelligence of children in the concrete operational stage to recognise and label emotions through narrative storytelling.

Process

Ideated from the gathered insights from literature reviews in the field of psychology, and developed based on the results from rapid prototyping and user testing

Game Play

  • Every player starts with the same hand of emotion cards. 
  • Each player takes turns in being the protagonist; who creates their story, whilst everyone else are listeners.
  • The protagonist takes a random “scenario“ card (first half of the story) and a random “event” card (second half of the story).
  • After reading the scenario and event, they select emotion card(s) and places it face down.
  • Other listeners take turns in asking questions about the story, however, one cannot ask “how they felt”. Additional details of the story is created by the protagonist.
  • The listeners consider the emotion(s) the protagonist may be experiencing and places face-down the corresponding emotion card(s).
  • Cards are revealed simultaneously, and the players that correctly guesses the emotion(s) progresses along with the narrator. No-one progresses if the emotions were not identified.
  • First player to progress to the End is the winner.

Credits

In collaboration with Annie Tang, Peixuan Li, & John Agcaoili, for the class ‘Design Psychology’ instructed by Dr. Nejra Van Zalk.

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