Thursday, 17 January 2008

Reflection on Tutorial 17.1.08

By talking with Mike about my ideas, he strongly supported me to do the suicide topic, and I also got some useful suggestions on how to do my initial research in this field.

Mike explained me a chart 'Crime Lifecycle Model' which related to the project he is doing currently. The chart shows 10 influential factors from pre-crime and post-crime aspects. I was quite inspired by the factors which influenced people to commit a crime, such as motives, emotion, life circumstances, skills, knowledge, equipment/tools, and opportunity. I understood that as same as commit a crime, commit a suicide also influenced by these elements. Just say suicide equipment/tools, nowadays people can utilize everything to end them up, so pre-suicide is a potential area which design might be intervene in.


Crime Lifecycle Model


Same as post-suicide, from the chart, one of the factors after crime is 'immediate impact', in suicide case, suicider's families, friends, and people around him/her will suffer great pains as soon as they hear of the terrible news. But in my opinion, research in post-suicide aspects is a little difficult to get approach, so I decided to focus on pre-suicide area to do my research and try to find out in what elements that design can be involved in.

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