A tiny window onto a wider world
20-day stranger is a mobile app that creates an intimate and anonymous connection between you and another person. For 20 days, you get continuous updates about where they are, what they are doing, and eventually even how they are feeling, and them likewise about you. But you will never know who this person is. Does this change the way you think about other people you see throughout your day, any one of which could be your stranger?
Compassion is rooted in the simple awareness that all others are human beings who, just like oneself, aspire to happiness.
As part of Playful Systems Research Group @ M.I.T. Media Lab. 2013
https://www.20daystranger.com