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Overview
According to the journal of psychology studies: Today’s news is “increasingly visual and shocking,” media can be so intense that it can cause symptoms of acute stress—like problems sleeping, mood swings or aggressive behaviour—or even PTSD.
Duration: Weekend Hackathon (Spring semester)
Team: Divyasnh, Sachi,Yuwei, Satu
Role: Design research, Project strategy, Systems, User research, Rapid prototyping.
Methods: Product strategic design, product management, team building.
Mental health stressors and information overload
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Social isolation
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Uncertainty
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Misinformation
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Overwhelming news
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Unregulated and overexposure online
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Sensationlisation hits up
Detailed Case study
The pandemic is a perfect recipe for accelerating mental health crises and we recognize this.
But being stuck at home most consuming news through social media platforms the pandemic received another name as the biggest Infodemic.
With rampant fake news, misinformation and heightened sensational news, the mental health conditions already aggravating with COVID just became worse. Our team tried to address this issue out of all the rampant problems discussed in this collaborative and incredible class Tech Media and Democracy led by incredible faculty members.
Shared
Experiences
Insight & Theory of change
Our theory of change was to share people's experiences how they are coping within their neighbourhood, sharing resources, building digital solidarity.
Why filter and curate from social media platforms?
Priority towards sensational news
Widespread fake news and non-verified information and no accountability.
Not distributed across your neighbourhood
Reduces anxiety
Social solidarity
Shared hope
What is Echocare?
Reflections
Team
Working across disciplines in a unique class where we were not only learning about the politics of Technology but interacting with students from various schools in NYC was lovely and most of us who came together as a team became friends and were able to build things quite fast.
Decisions
As a design strategist on the role, I enjoyed innovating product in a design-led sprint model-driven hackathon, since we had to be on our toes facilitating sessions with the team helped in taking decisions early on to drive the product where we intended it to be.
Even though the product we built later we felt had many missing parts and was not feasible in the long run, it still was a process of uncreating-
The concept was developed through a Hackathon over a weekend at the end of the class.
