CaTPin Conversation as Therapy

CaTPin Conversation as Therapy

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The Design Challenge was a joint initiative between Telstra and the Design & Creative Practice Platform which sought to tackle the real-world issue: How do we design for Ageing Well Futures?

CaTPin presented the idea of “conversation as therapy’. It aimed to address the issue of loneliness due to a lack of social interaction by developing a discreet, low-cost wearable. Taking the form of a lapel pin or brooch, designed in collaboration with the wearer, the device detects the presence or absence of conversation. It is founded on the premise that loneliness is manifest in a poverty of conversation, hence using the number of words spoken a day as a surrogate marker for social isolation and loneliness.

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