Care Mirror

A speculative care system that makes secondary victimisation visible without turning care into surveillance.

2025 · Speculative design · Interaction design · Haptics · Data

problem

GBV survivors are often retraumatised by the services meant to help them, and this harm leaves almost no data.

my role

Designer · Researcher

what I did

Mapped five sources of secondary victimisation, designed a consent-first system with a haptic earpiece for providers, and turned interaction data into 'data paintings' for training.

result

A speculative prototype showing how interaction data can fuel institutional learning, not surveillance.

at a glance

course
Systems as Spaces of Care, Harvard GSD

01Understand

The harm doesn't stop at the police station

Secondary victimisation comes from police, courts, healthcare, GBV service providers, and family and community.

02System

Seven steps, consent first

Providers opt in, wear a haptic earpiece, and learn from aggregated patterns.

  1. Training
  2. Consent
  3. Interaction
  4. Haptic feedback
  5. Analysis
  6. Data painting
  7. Institutional learning

03Data

Data for reflection, not ranking

Abstract, aggregated data paintings support training without scoring individuals.

Data paintings

impact

  • Survivors

    Fewer retraumatising encounters

    Proposed pilot metrics: trust, charge withdrawal

what I learned

  • Design what the system refuses to do.

tools

  • Systems mapping
  • Speculative design
  • Haptic prototyping
  • Data visualisation