We start off with the why technique: why do we want two people to get to know each other? Because there are monetary rewards from doing so. Why do people want benefits? Because they want to get rich. We start here with the premise that being rich is a common desire.
Our initial idea was that two people will be placed together and get to communicate with each other. There will be guided topics provided. After 10 minutes, each of them will be given a set of questionaire about the other, and they will be given money based on how many questions they answer correctly in total. The questionarie will be written by an observer who improvises questions from their conversation. Based on this setup, we thought it was cliche to have it similar to a coffee chat in which they just sit here and talk. Therefore, we refined it to having the two people in different rooms, not seeing in other, and their voice altered by a voice changer. There might be some psychological facts about the effect of seeing in each other’s face and hearing the actual voice to our understanding of the other person.
The guided topics could be about the following
Hometowns: ask to describe their hometown and what they like to do there, find their hobbies; ask stereotypical questions in a non-offensive way (for example oh so you must like *** food); etc.
Job: ask what their jobs are; whether they like it or not; then ask for reasons, from these reasons deduce their personalities and ask them if they are like that, and continue.
Hobbies: in case the hometown question didn’t reach here, ask about hobbies and why they liked it, what they liked about it, find connections, and think about future activities to do together.
A graphic design will be the following
In which there is a wall blocking them. A microphone is used to alter voices and a headphone used to receive. The square is the paper with guided questions on it.