Floorball
A floorball hall is a soundscape before it is a game. Stick clatter, whistles, shoes squealing on the floor. The visual support below builds a mental map of sounds, situations and rules before the body steps onto the court.
♀Girl playing floorball
A person playing floorball with a stick and ball.
♀Girl playing floorball
A person with braided hair playing floorball with a stick and ball.
About this visual support
Floorball looks like a game from the outside, but inside it is also a sound and contact system. Sticks slamming the goal, bodies hitting the boards, fast contact, a tempo where two line changes can pass before the hall’s echo even settles. For a child sensitive to input, stepping through the door is enough to start draining the battery.
Visual support flattens the novelty of each element. When the pictures show the hall, the boards, the slams, the line change and the break in advance, none of it is a surprise any longer, just a recognition. That is the difference between reacting to something unexpected and meeting something already seen. For the brain the gap is huge, even when the image is only a stylised symbol.
Run a quick walkthrough in the car or at home five minutes before going into the hall. Point at the boards, the stick, the noise, the break, the changing room. It is not a rule recap but an inspection of the setting. In Routined you can build these elements into a recurring matchday routine and try the whole app for 14 days to see if it softens the entry into the hall.