Overview

CORE is an interactive speculative education system that predicts and assigns a student’s future pathway through biometric, behavioral, and institutional data.

Created as my senior capstone, the project critiques a future where education shifts from helping students discover who they are to optimizing who they should become.

Context

CORE imagines a future where uncertainty is treated as a design problem.

Instead of switching majors, studying subjects that feel disconnected, or moving from job to job without a clear direction, CORE assigns each student an optimized pathway based on biometric data, astrological data, ancestral records, behavioral modeling, and institutional prediction.

The system promises clarity and efficiency, but raises a larger question: what do we lose when our futures are decided for us?

Challenge

The challenge was to design a speculative system that felt useful, believable, and polished enough to be tempting.

CORE needed to feel like something people might actually accept: a pathway system that removes uncertainty, provides direction, and turns identity into data.

Experience Flow

The experience begins with an onboarding process where the user enters personal information and completes a biometric scan. CORE then generates a profile, assigns a fixed pathway, and places the user into a future university dashboard.

Onboarding → Biometric Scan → Profile Generation → Pathway Assignment → Dashboard

Onboarding

User inputs personal and background data.

Biometric Scan

CORE translates identity into measurable data.

Pathway Assignment

The system assigns a fixed optimized future.

Dashboard Entry

The user enters a university interface shaped around that assigned pathway.

Dashboard System

After CORE assigns the user a pathway, the experience shifts into a future university dashboard built around that decision.

The dashboard shows how the system continues to shape the student’s education through assigned classes, mentor guidance, curated resources, and profile auditing.