Taipei Tech’s Department of Interaction Design is turning heads once again with its 2024 graduation exhibition, Sensing Trigger – The Interactive Button Company. Held at the Taipei Nangang and Kaohsiung Exhibition Centers, the show features 18 teams, each exploring a unique topic through creative and emotionally engaging experiences that invite visitors to reflect on the role of technology in everyday life.

This year’s graduates achieved remarkable success, earning 14 nominations across Taiwan’s three major student design competitions: the Golden Pin Design Award – Young Pin Category, the Vision Get Wild Award, and the Youth Design Festival Creative Design Competition.

Two standout projects—Fragile Signals and Unforgettable Memories—advanced to the final round of the Young Pin Best Design Award, with several others also shortlisted for the Vision Get Wild competition.

The exhibition is themed around a fictional “interactive button company,” where each button acts as a trigger for a unique experience that blends technology and design. The 18 teams explore a range of themes, including digital trauma, dementia, child safety, and immersive gaming.

Fragile Signals confronts the topic of online sexual violence through an immersive audiovisual installation. Participants experience the emotional journey of a victim through motion-sensing interaction and AI-generated visuals. Their live movements are captured and projected onto the screen, creating a powerful and unsettling look at how people can be harmed in the digital world. Participants experience the emotional journey of a victim through motion-sensing interaction and AI-generated visuals. Their live movements are captured and projected onto the screen, creating a powerful and unsettling look at how people can be harmed in the digital world. The project won the Jury Award at the Youth Design Festival.

Unforgettable Memories offers a VR/MR simulation of life with dementia from a first-person viewpoint. Caregivers can experience the everyday challenges of memory loss through interactive activities that simulate non-pharmaceutical interventions. The goal: to foster greater empathy and understanding for aging individuals.

Taipei Tech continues to lead in combining design, technology, and empathy—producing graduates ready to innovate across industries.