What this is
You are hosting a party. Guests arrive one at a time. Each guest acts out a small moment with their body. Your job is to decide where each guest's body wants to go: toward one of four directions, a little, clearly or completely. Nothing is graded.
The four directions come from the DOT Model, a map of how people respond when something feels wrong: take charge, go still, push back, get away. The model's own names stay hidden until the end. When everyone is placed, the party plays out the way you placed them. Then you put the lights up and see the map you walked.
What we are testing
Before the game, we tried the idea on AI. We wrote short scenes from the model's own definitions and asked AI models which way each person was heading. The AI kept choosing the same directions for the same scenes: 59 of 72 matched what the model predicted.
Now we want to know if people see the same thing. If you read these bodies the way the AI did, that is a sign the model shows something real. If you read them differently, that tells us something too.
Our goal for this first round is 30 people.
How others read the room
Who has played
How this was made
The scenes, the bodies, the test on AI and what we keep from your answers are all written out on one page.
Learn more
- The DOT ModelThe map behind the game.
- The DOT Model world in VRChatWalk through the model in VR.
- The Bell Before the WordsA two-minute practice for the moment before you react.
- The writingEssays and updates on Substack.
- Work with RuthThree ways to work together, starting with a free call.
- Support the workKeeps projects like this free.
- About Ruth Diaz, Psy.D.Who made this.