For Your Health / For Your Safety
For Your Health / For Your Safety is an interactive installation exploring the overlap between healthcare systems, public messaging, and state control. Presented as a digital interface resembling a pharmacy app and patient portal, it functions as a storytelling system that challenges the idea that medical and governmental platforms are neutral. Instead, it reveals how technology can merge care, surveillance, and control into a single system.
This project challenges the myths that healthcare technologies are neutral, public health messaging is purely informational, data systems are objective, participation equals agency, and prescriptions exist only to heal.
Drawing on McKenzie Wark’s A Hacker Manifesto, the work frames health as data that can be captured, organized, and controlled. The interface presents care while simultaneously functioning as a system of classification and regulation, reflecting Wark’s argument that abstraction reshapes power.
“Information is the most easily reproducible object
ever captured in the abstraction of property.”
-McKenzie Wark
Home Screen
The Home screen uses a clean, familiar healthcare app layout with navigation menus, notification banners, and interactive cards to create a sense of trust and usability. Design elements like rounded forms, consistent styling, and layered alerts make the interface feel realistic and unified.
At the same time, overlapping notifications and subtle system messages suggest continuous monitoring and coordination between systems. This establishes the core idea of the project: a platform that appears helpful and neutral, but is actually shaping behavior and collecting data.
The Daily Check-in screen is structured as a routine health dashboard, combining a date header, alerts, an assessment prompt, mood selection, and scheduled medication blocks organized by time of day. The layout uses rounded cards, soft gradients, and clear hierarchy to create a calm, controlled, and familiar healthcare interface.
Options like “Skip for today,” “Start now,” and Submit suggest flexibility and user control. However, this control is limited. If the user skips the daily assessment, the system redirects them into corrective training, revealing that participation is not optional.
Daily Check-in
Although framed as a responsive assistant, the interaction is not truly conversational. The system follows a fixed progression:
Initial empathy: “I understand your concern…”
Controlled pause: “Please stand by…”
Data capture: ”Your response has been noted.”
Directive shift: “Please follow approved guidance.”
Rejection of deviation: “Your request does not align with recommended use.”
Escalation: “Standby for corrective messaging…”
The system does not adapt to the user’s input in a meaningful way. Instead, it absorbs input and redirects it into predefined outcomes. When the user tries to use the microphone button, an unpleasant error sound plays.
The chat feature is presented as a voice-driven support interface, designed to resemble a helpful assistant within a healthcare app. The screen is minimal, with a centered prompt such as “How can I help you?” or “Tell me what you are experiencing,” and a microphone icon indicating voice input as the primary form of interaction.
Chat
Shopping
The Shopping screen shifts healthcare into a consumer marketplace, re-framing medication as purchasable products rather than prescribed care.
The presence of items like “Compliance Support Therapy” suggests that behavior itself is being treated and sold
The interface blends medical authority with retail logic, merging care, commerce, and control
By presenting prescriptions alongside purchasable items, the system implies that:
Treatment can be selected rather than prescribed
Compliance can be bought
Health becomes a managed, transactional process
Compliance Prompts
Intervention screens triggered by non-compliance, where user actions are treated as risk and redirected toward correction. Selecting the red option sends the user into compliance messaging, showing that choice is replaced by enforced behavior.
The screen guides the user through predefined actions, continuously prompting them to report status and behavior. Alerts and check-ins create subtle pressure, while repeated inputs generate ongoing data collection.
It is presented as supportive and routine, but operates as a system that enforces compliance, monitors behavior, and re frames control as care.
Corrective messaging is interrupted by a breach, with warning banners overtaking the interface. The system destabilizes as an outsider intervenes, disrupting the app’s control by exposing the risks and dependency tied to the medications it promotes.
These videos compile material from the For Your Health / For Your Safety piece developed in the previous project, with media manipulated using TouchDesigner.
Compliance Breach