Choice-Point: Fostering Awareness and Choice with Perpetrators in Domestic Violence Interventions

to tackle a sensitive issue by Programmes; Batterers Intervention Programmes; involving the development of embodied learning for Interactive Storytelling; perpetrators who may lack perspective on their behaviour.

Interactive storytelling has been providing users with the • Human-centered computing Human computer opportunity to explore speculative scenarios in a controlled interaction (HCI) • Human-centered computing HCI environment. We discuss the design of Choice-Point: a webtheory, concepts and models • Human-centered based application that allows perpetrators to adopt the role of computing Ethnographic studies • Human-centered different fictional characters in an abusive scenario for computing Empirical studies in HCI conveying the essential skill of perspective-taking. We evaluated Choice-Point through trials with three groups of perpetrators, a support group of victim-survivors and an expert critique from support workers. We discuss challenges in using such technologies -such as our system -for engagement; the value of perpetrator agency in supporting non-violent behaviours, and the potential to positively shape perpetrators' journeys to non-violence within social care settings.