Senior Project Idea
For my senior project I'll be doing a VR experience about depressive episodes: the before, during, and aftermath. The player will start in a dark room, curtains drawn and look around to see boxes, clothes on the floor, plates, cups, and either a journal or pieces of paper from a journal. As the person walks around the room and looks at certain objects they'll be prompted with thoughts about their depressive episode, along with how they're feeling and how it got to that point. When reading the journal pages they'll come to learn what happened before and during the depressive episode and their state of mind. I'll might expand more on this but so far this is my general plan. This past week I've started doing interviews for my project some over Zoom and some through Google Forms. My first group of people are my folks who have depressive disorders or experience depressive episodes. I'm asking them about their symptomology, depressive episode experiences, and things they wish others would understand about their mental illness. With this knowledge I'll be able to better represent depressive episodes to make a more general view of them, because each individual, including me, has different person experiences with it. My second group are those who do not have depressive disorders or symptoms. I'm asking these people what their knowledge is on depression, symptoms, depressive episodes, and how they feel towards people with depression. I want to take from them what they are unaware of and tailor the project so that I cover some important factors of depressive episodes that people may not realize.
