Hidden Kingdoms
Hidden Kingdoms is a travel companion app for people who experience travel anxiety.
Client
A project created with funding from Arts Council England.
Skills
Development
3D Modelling
Overview
Hidden Kingdoms is a travel companion app, designed to help anxious people, especially vulnerable young adults or people with hidden disabilities, to make real-world journeys, and overcome barriers to engage with society.
By guiding you along the way with spatialised audio and breathing techniques, Hidden Kingdoms is ongoing support in your pocket, making a positive difference to your wellbeing.
Key Objectives
- Easy to use and navigate
- Prompts to check-in on the users progress
- Include artist-commissioned designs
- Incentives to encourage completing journeys and using the app
- Include spatialised audio and breathing techniques.
The Approach
- Commissioned artist to create characters, commissioned spatialised audio and meditations from artists which can be accessed throughout the entire journey.
- These sounds draw on research exploring the benefits of spending time in nature and spatial audio’s potential for overcoming sensory sensitivity.
- Creatures are unlocked after each journey to encourage and provide incentives for people to use the app.
- Use Google’s API to track user journeys.
- Created on Unity
The Results
Hidden Kingdoms is an ongoing project.
- Available on iOS and Android
- Interest from neurodivergent communities
- Downloaded 100+ times through initial marketing
- 590+ sessions on iOS
Find out more
Find out more about Hidden Kingdoms here: https://www.hiddenkingdoms.org/