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App created to help youth express grief

Grief is tough to handle, especially when young. As a result, one group of people are trying to help.

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Grief is tough to handle, especially when young. As a result, one group of people are trying to help.

Alex Rothera, Ivor Williams, Jacopo Atzori, and Aaron Gillett of Fabrica, a creative research center in Italy, have created an experimental app called “Flutter.” The app uses music to help people, specifically adolescents, experiencing grief to safely and positively express how they feel by creating sound artefacts. The music is controlled through a formless interface using the wind as a visual metaphor.

Following research into the changing forms of grief in the 21st century, showing that despite being at the forefront of rapid changes in communication technology, grieving adolescents require new, different forms of self-expression in order to connect meaningfully with others,” Rothera wrote on his website.

The app has yet to be released.

2015 Interaction Awards: Flutter from Interaction Design Association on Vimeo.

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