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Prototype Development to Measure and Improve High School Students’ Social Interactions

Benthem, A.M. (2025) Prototype Development to Measure and Improve High School Students’ Social Interactions.

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Abstract:Interacting with peers can contribute to overall well-being and curb feelings of loneliness. However, there are many reasons why high school students avoid interacting with fellow students. This project thus aims to create a prototype that is able to lower this barrier of entry to these social interactions and make it easier to visualize these interactions. With literature research, various factors that are involved in these social interactions are identified. To gain a deeper insight, field research was conducted with high schoolers, where it became clear that most if not all students conduct conversations as their primary way of interacting. Ideation began with the diverging and converging phase, where the main idea was selected, which involved a growing tree that has various flowers and fruits that indicate certain aspects of their conversation, such as how much they spoke or how loudly. Pilot tests were then conducted, and these remained inconclusive as to whether they had a significant positive effect on the conversations. For future research, care should be taken so that the display doesn’t become too overwhelming, and longer conversations with random pairings of high school students should be tested.
Item Type:Essay (Bachelor)
Clients:
Unknown organization
Faculty:EEMCS: Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Subject:02 science and culture in general, 05 communication studies, 54 computer science
Programme:Creative Technology BSc (50447)
Link to this item:https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/106089
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