Human-Computer Interaction at Politecnico di Torino asks you to design against a real harm. We chose the one in everyone's pocket: feeds engineered to keep you scrolling. Feed Machine is a social-platform prototype that treats your attention as the resource to protect.
The design process, in full
- User research and needfinding first — what people actually regret about their feed time
- Paper prototypes, tested and thrown away; heuristic evaluation; usability testing on the working build
What it does
- Time-usage dashboards that make your session visible while it happens
- Interest-based filtering, so the feed serves declared interests rather than engagement bait
- Friction where it helps — tools that interrupt compulsive scrolling instead of feeding it
Built with React on the front and Python behind it.