Thesis outline

Designing long-distance language

Introduction

The ideal pattern of family has changed, people who lived in the large family became minority in recent years. It is the result of change of people’s value and the increasing of mobile society. By virtue of popularization of the Internet, people have got tools to communicate with each other regardless of the sense of time and distance. It is possibly said locations where people live are not important for them staying away geographically from their families any longer.
People belong to where they live physically, but also who used to live with emotionally. The goal of this thesis is to explore how design can support emotional connection between people living apart through the sense of belonging.