Suicide effects: designing for death
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This paper presents design ideas and suggestions for digital signage systems within the Tokyo transportation system to create and nurture social and community engagement around the phenomena of train suicide. This method of taking one's own life is widespread in Japan and repeatedly cripples the schedules of trains creating delays. The authors of this study have conducted field research and interviewed a number of participants on their perception of suicide in the train system and their observation of other passengers' behaviour. Our analysis has shown that a tragic act, such as suicide, offers multiple views and departure points for design. The outcomes of the paper, aside from analysis of collected data, are ideas and suggestions for designs and design guidance for particular urban spaces and insights into the design of urban systems that foster community awareness and engagement.
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- Ruben Albers, Shadan Sadeghian, Matthias Laschke, Marc Hassenzahl (2023): Dying, Death, and the Afterlife in Human-Computer Interaction. A Scoping Review., In: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, doi:10.1145/3544548.3581199
- Pavel Farkas (2020): Appropriation, Design and User Experience in Public Spaces as a Part of the Language of the City, In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-49757-6_8