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Designing an Interactive Experience to Facilitate Conversations, Create Empathy and Change Attitudes on Race

Chaney, Nichole M
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5204-3772
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin162316948408367

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2021, MDES, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Design.
Designing Interactive Experience to Facilitate Conversations, Create Empathy and Change Attitudes on Race. Racism is in the fabric of United States’ history and continues to divide people today. In 2020, our country has experienced social unrest after the death of several black people at the hands of police officers, a pandemic that has led to social isolation, and division in terms of politics, and numerous inequities based on race and ethnicity. Diversity and Inclusion training, dialogue facilitators, and physical card games have been used to have conversations around race; however, Covid-19 has inspired the researcher to develop an interactive digital format that can used to facilitate conversation while being socially distanced and to bring people together across long distances. This interactive experience has been formulated using design methodologies and processes, including user experience and interface design and informed knowledge from sociology and race experts including dialogue facilitators, race scholars and seminal research. Critical Race Theory tenets and Heuristic Evaluation principles will provide frameworks for the interactive experience content and user interface, respectively. The interactive experience has proven beneficial in facilitating conversations that cannot take place in-person, provided perspectives that challenge the dominant culture, and created empathy between white and black students, suggesting that it is an effective tool for facilitating conversations, creating empathy, and changing attitudes on race over time.
Ashley Kubley (Committee Chair)
Tia Sheree Gaynor (Committee Member)
Matthew Wizinsky, M.F.A. (Committee Member)
120 p.
Design
facilitating conversations; racial conversations; application for facilitating conversations; racial transformation; interactive experience; online racial conversations

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  • Chaney, N. M. (2021). Designing an Interactive Experience to Facilitate Conversations, Create Empathy and Change Attitudes on Race [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin162316948408367

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Chaney, Nichole. Designing an Interactive Experience to Facilitate Conversations, Create Empathy and Change Attitudes on Race. 2021. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin162316948408367.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Chaney, Nichole. "Designing an Interactive Experience to Facilitate Conversations, Create Empathy and Change Attitudes on Race." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin162316948408367

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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