Bonding Across Distances: How to Create Shared Emotional Experiences in Remote Settings

Hsin-Yi Chang
Exhibition and Experience Design

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Title
Bonding Across Distances: How to Create Shared Emotional Experiences in Remote Settings
Contributor Names
Chang, Hsin-Yi (Author)
Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York. Exhibition and Experience Design (Degree granting institution)
Cowan, Brenda (Thesis advisor)
Date
2022
Degree Information
M.A. Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York 2022.
Department: Exhibition and Experience Design.
Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 84-08.
Advisors: Cowan, Brenda.
Committee members: Waisman, Kate; Lyons, Christina; Carlson, Brooke.
Abstract
In this research, I explore how shared emotional experiences can be created in remote settings that effectively engage physically distant participants and foster interpersonal bonds. The document is organized into two parts:
In the first part, I examine the factors that help foster emotional social connections in traditional in-person settings and explore how these factors can be transferred or recreated in remote settings. Through my research, I’ve identified “shared experiences” as one of the keys to forming interpersonal bonds. I will further identify the key elements that need to be present to create effective remote shared experiences.
In the second part, I apply this theoretical framework to an exhibition project, Where The Wild Things Are: Return To The Wild, to create a new type of remote experience. This application demonstrates the potential path for exhibition designers to expand the reach and impact of future exhibition projects, and help institutions remain relevant and connected to their audiences in the post-pandemic world.
Subject
Design
Social surveys
Bonding
Emotions
Exhibitions
Technology
Interpersonal relations
Belonging (Social psychology)
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Identifier
FIT Repository ID: etd_000920
pqdiss: 30247452
ISBN: 9798371975485
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Thesis
Language
English
Publisher
Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,

Citation

Chang, H. (2022). Bonding Across Distances: How to Create Shared Emotional Experiences in Remote Settings [Master's thesis, Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York]. FIT Institutional Repository. https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/28963
Chang, Hsin-Yi. Bonding Across Distances: How to Create Shared Emotional Experiences in Remote Settings. 2022. Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, Master's thesis. FIT Digital Repository, https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/28963
Chang, Hsin-Yi. "Bonding Across Distances: How to Create Shared Emotional Experiences in Remote Settings." Master's thesis, Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, 2022. https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/28963