Zhe Lou is a user experience designer with a background in graphic design and art history. Benefiting from multidisciplinary studying experience, she explores the boundary of experience design in creative design research approcahes, both physically and digitally. She believes all design outcomes have to create a cohesive and integrated set of experience for users, and thinking through all the stages of the process from initial intentions through final reflection is the way of making them working together seamlessly.
Baku
Baku is an interface application design that concentrates on alleviating negative post-nightmare distress in the general population and documenting a nightmare re-scripting journal in the manner of sound experiences. Inspired by Imagery rehearsal therapy, art therapy, and cultural manifestations, the design outcome integrates modern psychotherapeutic research with traditional eastern imagery of Baku from Japanese folktales, borrowing the idea of "the dream eater." To collect more diverse responses from individuals, the design research process utilized a systematic literature review, questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, and public co-designing methods as in-depth approaches. This interface application explores the possibility of introducing a system similar to psychotherapeutic practice to the greater population troubled by nightmares without mental health complications or deficiency.
Baku is an interface application design that concentrates on alleviating negative post-nightmare distress in the general population and documenting a nightmare re-scripting journal in the manner of sound experiences. Inspired by Imagery rehearsal therapy, art therapy, and cultural manifestations, the design outcome integrates modern psychotherapeutic research with traditional eastern imagery of Baku from Japanese folktales, borrowing the idea of "the dream eater." To collect more diverse responses from individuals, the design research process utilized a systematic literature review, questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, and public co-designing methods as in-depth approaches. This interface application explores the possibility of introducing a system similar to psychotherapeutic practice to the greater population troubled by nightmares without mental health complications or deficiency.