The Eye of Dying Yasunari Kawabata

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The Eye of Dying --Yasunari Kawabata

• Lois/Lu Cao

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Background

• 60-80 suicide will send signals to other people
  which is subconscious asking for help
• International Association for Suicide Prevention
  worldwide more people kill themselves than die in
  all wars, terrorist acts and interpersonal
  violence combined
• 10 people will come to the idea during their
  life
• The everlasting and extreme negative influence
  will come to at least 6 people around the suicide

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Philosophy about project 4

• Disease? Cure?
• Culture
• Fair perspective

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Flow Chart

• Original (Predisposing Factors)
• http//www.suicidepreventtriangle.org/Suichap1.ht
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Predisposing Factors

• There are circumstances in the history of any
  person which increase vulnerability and
  predispose for high risk of suicidal deaths.
• Birth Simply being born predisposes every
  American to the base rate of approximately 20 men
  or 7 women per year. These are derived from the
  national rates of suicidal death in 1979(1981).
  While women suicides overall are much lower, the
  current trend is for younger women to kill
  themselves more often than in the past. Those
  under 35 have shown a dramatically higher suicide
  rate in recent years (Seiden, 1969 1981).
• Early significant losses Childhood bereavement,
  the loss of one or more parents while still a
  child predisposes for adult mental illness,
  criminality, cancer, and suicide. The way
  childhood bereavement is managed is important,
  but the correlation with adult hazards seems to
  be clear (Dorpat, et al 1965 Greer,1966 Bunch
  Barraclough, 1971).

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Predisposing Factors

• Other health factors and new losses The
  occurrence of adult illnesses and other
  catastrophes, affect the stresses and aggravate
  vulnerabilities. However, the most dramatic
  influence is the occurrence of new significant
  losses. Where identified, the health professional
  should not hesitate to use this information in
  planning suicide prevention strategy. The earlier
  experiences create vulnerability, while the later
  events exert more stress if replicating the
  earlier.
• Role of significant other The variety of ways
  family members can relate to each other is known
  to aggravate mental health or support positive
  living. Spousal relations can take the form of
  cooperative-supportive patterns or
  competitive-consuming interactions (Shneidman,
  1971) Perceived object loss, whether by death,
  separation or rejection, has long been recognized
  as the modal psycho dynamic explaining the
  occurrence of affect disorders, namely
  depression especially where observable trauma,
  failure, or catastrophe are not identifiable
  (Shneidman, 1971).

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Predisposing Factors

• Previous suicide attempts Prior self injury
  behavior is the single most reliable predictor of
  future suicidal attempts. History of one prior
  attempt yields a suicide rate of 1500 per 100,000
  live attempters, per year. A history of two or
  more self injury incidents in the past, yields a
  rate of 15,000 commits per 100,000 live multiple
  attempters per year. These statistics do not
  consider the lethality of any attempts merely
  their occurrence (Litman Farberow,
  1974Stengel, 1972)
• Additional factors, mainly epidemiological add to
  the degree of risk for death per year of
  identified groups of people. The licensed health
  professional should identify those factors that
  increase the probability of future self injury
  behavior, whether epidemiological or more
  clinical, and utilize these in assessing or
  planning for prevention (Litman et al, 1974)

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Flow Chart

• Modified
• Time machine

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Design

• A maze based on the grid of the temple
• Composed of rooms and doors
• Mapping
• Edges map to paths
• Ending Nodes map to doors
• Inner Nodes map to stairs
• Candle
• Door

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Design Discussion

• Technically, this representation can be anything
  rather than the maze.
• Take this for an example, computer scientist can
  totally create a virtual model to construct the
  suicides cause of formation most intuitively,
  the model could be a person.

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Art Genre

• Van Gogh Wheat Field of Crows

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Art Genre

• Kiyomizudera ("Pure Water Temple")
• 85

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Outside
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Inside
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Hall
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Doors out
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Design Details

• Interaction
• Text and Picture There could be more, like
  sound and video
• Experience Provide a way for people to
  experience the story like an audience

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Technical Details

• Privacy distance (determined by second life)
  encryption (original)
• Camera control (this may add up the psychological
  influence)
• Interactive Options
• sound, dialogue, text (necessary), picture,
  gesture

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For Video Product

• According to needs, the video could be created
  into different versions
• (Normal)
• Personal
• Historical
• Scientific
• Artistic
• May be more

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For Video Product

• Personal of course based on individuals story
• Historical take this for an example, do you want
  to know the true reason for Marilyn Monroes
  suicide commitment?
• Scientific tell the story as a view of
  psychiatrist, totally objectively.
• Artistic wholly for art.

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Technical Details

• Definition of different versions?
• Its like movie types one story can be made into
  various kinds of movies.
• Mainly based on factors of creating, like
  narrative.

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