Etic & Emic study
CHAPTER OBJECTIVE
COVER ALL GROUNDS
CHAPTER 01: Pending chores!
CHAPTER OBJECTIVE -------------------------------------------------- COVER ALL GROUNDS!
Chapter's Main Themes: Etic & Emic Study: Objects of Labour, Routine, Chores
Explaination:
Here, the player's senses are constantly heightened with an overwhelm of visual and aural activities - both diegetically and non-diegetically. Just as one would experience residing in a helper's room, and in the case where everything is of your concern. This game chapter's objective is to colour (wipe) the floor with the colouring tool (VR Controller), and stealthily cover all ground surfaces. The colouring tool turns into a erasing tool when the surrounding grows silent. The idea of the object of labour - cloth as the extension of self and the alteration of the player's relationship with the surroundings. Players get visual cues about the ground and chore location through the VR headset, but also the use of their haptic sense – the combination of touch and proprioception – to feel where exactly are the surfaces to colour. The action's repetition gives the players a sense of control of the distance between them and the objects, but the game is set in a time-loop, with a never ending list of chores.
Experience: Players will cover the floor with colour using the colouring tool (VR controller), stealthily colour all floor surfaces without drawing attention.
Ironing Board
Sarah Boone is the most recognised inventor of the ironing board, and her invention is officially recognised as the precursor to the modern ironing board. Sarah Boone’s ironing board was foldable and had a narrow, curved shape to the board. This new narrow, curved ironing board shape helped iron the sleeves and bodies of ladies garments significantly easier.
Stove
Widespread adoption of gas technology in the home would precipitate a "domestic revolution" for women of all classes. affordable domestic technology offered a solution to a host of social problems, including maternal and infant health, urban sanitation, and inadequate housing
Hanging Rack
They were characteristic of a life stretched by necessity, out of interiors of apartments as far as possible into the public space beyond. Hanging clothes outside to dry as a religious experience, peaceful and meditative. Instead of a singularly personal experience, the clothesline represents a communal rather than a solitary experience. The clothesline represents a quality of lifestyle either realized or desired.
Sink
The new sinks required installation and maintenance by a plumber, one of the new career choices for men of the late 19th century. The ongoing and increased mass production of kitchen sinks in the 20th century enabled more women to have time and labour-saving amenities in their homes.
Washer
Washerwomen used to wash linen with soap by the edge of a stream or river, or else in a fountain or a wash-house. Wash-houses also played an important social role: women from all over the village met there at least once a week and would exchange local news. The wash-house became a “talking house” and it was not unusual to hear the women singing, as a means of lightening their daily chores and passing the time.
