Emotions are crucial in the workplace, impacting employee well-being. We often address mental health only after negative emotions accumulate.
Enhancing emotional intelligence
Degree Project
2023
Emotions play a vital role in our daily lives. Often, we encounter situations that trigger negative emotions. Unfortunately, we tend to seek solutions only when our mental state becomes unhealthy due to the accumulation of these negative emotions. What if we could recognize the early signals our emotions send us before they worsen? I have come to realize that self-awareness is the key to addressing these emotional issues effectively. Regularly examining and understanding our own emotions is essential. This is where this service steps in. I offer a range of visual interfaces that allow individuals to delve into their emotions, providing them with the necessary time and effort to do so. Users begin by selecting the energy and mood levels corresponding to their current emotions. I expect that this visualisation process will attract people’s interest and encourage them to be faithful to their emotions for a brief moment.
Project Information
Emotions play a vital role in the workplace as they have a significant impact on employees' well-being, motivation, productivity, and overall relationships. While it would be ideal to always experience positive emotions, the reality is that various issues often give rise to negative emotions.
However, it is common for us to only seek solutions when we are already in a mentally unhealthy state due to the accumulation of negative emotions. What if we could proactively recognize the signals our emotions convey before they reach overwhelming levels? By strengthening our emotional resilience, we could potentially prevent our emotions from deteriorating.
Methods
Motivated by these questions, I initiated this project to explore the power of individual emotions in the workplace. As the project progressed, it became essential to observe the participants and listen to their opinions. Throughout the research process, I conducted workshops and surveys with participants, examining their expressions of emotions and their ability to understand others' emotions.
The second workshop focused specifically on investigating emotional dynamics within the workplace and devising effective methods for sharing them. Additionally, during the design ideation process, I encouraged participants to record their own emotions, incorporating these valuable insights into our ideas.
Results
While we may believe that we have a good understanding of our emotions, it is important to take the time to question ourselves about it. Engaging in the practice of introspection allows us to become more aware and understanding of our inner world.
This service provides the opportunity to have time to look at our emotions. Users can explore the energy and mood of their emotions through a range of visual images, facilitating a deeper reflection on their emotional state.
UID23 | Hyunjin Shin – Grad Project Presentation
What if we proactively recognized emotional signals to prevent overwhelming accumulation? Strengthening emotional resilience can prevent deterioration of emotions.
Driven by such questions, I embarked on researching emotions and discovered that self-awareness is the fundamental key to addressing these emotional issues.
Regularly reflecting on and understanding our own emotions is crucial. This service aims to provide valuable insights into our emotional well-being.
This is a service that can help individuals recognise and understand their emotions ,by checking their emotional state in daily life.
The first concept is to provide users with thoughts on emotions, and the second concept is to offer various visual displays that can express emotions.
Inspired by sensations, I visually express emotions, recognizing the connection between senses like roughness, softness, speed, and coldness.
Emotions are data. Emotions may not be visible, but by checking my emotions through energy and mood, I have generated my emotional data.
The measurement assesses human emotions based on energy and mood, determining energy level and positive/negative mood, enabling emotion labeling.
The emotions that are generated in this way are stored and accumulated, and they can be viewed on the emotion history screen.
I have defined a variety of visuals to represent the intensity of energy.
I have defined a variety of visuals to represent different moods.
