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Project overview: This is a UX concept designed for dying people in the hospital. The interaction system is designed to connect dying people with the outside society. The outstanding aspect is the analysis from literature review.

Target user: People diagnosed with terminal illness and therefore can only  stay in hospital but still have mobility.

01 LITERATURE REVIEW

Behavior map

From large amount of literature review, some important information can be concluded:

1. Relationships between family and dying people:  

The stage when the target user is most closely connected with their family is  just before admission and before death. During hospitalization, the target user is almost  alone. 
During this period, their true emotions and moods are nowhere to expresse.  Some users will use social software, but their role is very limited.

2. Real requirements of family and dying people:

The soceity usually has unified requirements for dying people and their family. To dying people, they are told to never give up and keep fighting with the diseases. However, during the treatment, part of them don't want to continue to be a burden to their family. Part of male who were orriginally the mainstay of a family have a huge pyschological gap. Part of female feel shame and lose dignity when their physiological privacy is exposed. These requirements are ignored by the surrounding environment. Their individual characteristics as a human being are ignored.

To their family, they are always told to be srong and try their best to save family's life. However, during the long-time treatment, they tend to be very tired and sad, some can come across economic issues. Their psychological requirements outside the hospital are also ignored.

Therefore, a system can be design to

1. help dying people get a platform to express their feelings and show characteristics. 

2. connect dying people with the outside world and raise more awareness of the society

3. be a method to spend free time when their family are not around

02 DESIGN CONCEPT

- Design concept

Dying people can release their wishes which are impossible to realize, including things they want to esperience or places they want to go. Volunteers who satisfy the requirements can connect with them and realize their wishes through short videos, phone cameras or VR glasses.

Concern points shown above are very important in this design, to both dying  people and volunteers. Dying people have a different psychological condition from other people. Special cares need to be taken about this.

wireframe

- overview page

When the system start, the user can make an order by voice and the page can turn to the corresponding page. Voice is a vey convenient way for the target user. Volunteers can leave real-time messages and upload rea-time short videos to the platform for further communication.

- VR interface

In order to protect the privacy of the dying people, they can choose whether to turn on or turn off the camera.

- Further concept

In the future, the entrance of the platform can be set in the facebook or instagram to make a stable user stickness and user amount.

This system aims to be a positive succession in a long term, because every person will be faced with death. In this condition, helping others means helping themselves in the future.