An experience to help re introduce human connection.

A project-based on augmented reality and bringing together the community after the pandemic to reintroduce a human connection. The pandemic has left a lot of people stuck behind closed doors with limited human connection, the only form of connection with the outside world they have is online activity whether it's gaming or chatrooms but there is an intimate issue here where people can not properly engage with each other when lockdowns around the UK are lifted and we are able to go outside and reengage with each other, will our months in lockdown make us unable to interact with each other?

I want to build a mobile application that uses augmented reality to encourage strangers to interact with each other through fun activities and earn points, this app will help people who have spent months locked behind a door re-establish a human connection with the outside world and strangers.

Thinking of a way to force co-operation naturally and comfortably.

I created a storyboard that helps illustrate how the user would interact with the app, they would start by finding activity on the app then pair with someone else who would also want to join in, the app would find a park close by and instruct the participants to make their way there accompanied with a map showing directions when both the participants arrive at the park they would scan their bracelet with their phone which would generate the object needed for the activity. Once the activity is done both players earn credits.

Stop the river is one of the activities the users would play working together to stop an overflowing river from destroying a nearby town, the users would need to pick up objects scattered over the field of play and use them to stop the river.

   

These images above are a user journey through the main stages of the mobile application during the first stages of planning before augmented reality was incoporated. The first stage launches the user into an interactive map where they can choose to find an activity and match with other users. The second stage, the encourages the user to tag other usernames and include the activity, this would then be shared on to other users on the app. The third stage is accessing the profile of the user where they ca view their videos and also look at trending videos.