Digital Immersive Design for MRI observation
REMEDY (Research Exploring Motivational and Emotional Development in Youth) group at Florida International University
All project materials owned by Ker-twang & REMEDY Research Group
Key Achievements
Successfully prototyped and developed an immersive digital design to simulate real world scenarios of aversive stimuli & relief that can be deployed to participants under MRI observation to be used by researchers at Florida International University.
View the research here.
(Fun fact: I designed the researcher’s website!)
The Challenge
We worked together with REMEDY to find innovative solutions to simulating social pain via standardized tasks that can be deployed to participants under MRI observation. The researcher’s aimed to measure negative reinforcement learning rates by simulating real world scenarios.
Our Goal: Design a standardizable task in which participants experience social pain that they can learn how to escape.
What we did
Developed & tested sketch-level concepts for simulating aversive experience, relief, clarity, visual design and learnability of the task
Conducted user research and testing with students to generate feedback and ideas
Prototyped & piloted with young adults to refine and validate design direction