Wednesday 15 February 2012

CPSC 543: Project, 1st Iteration

Scenario:

Megan owns many different kinds of plants in her home and she is very careful to treat her plants with care. On a typical day, she gets home and she is planning to run some errands: message a couple friends, clean the kitchen, cook dinner, etc.

For some reason, she is not too worried about her flowers...Because in the back of her mind, she can hear her flowers breathing. Not too while ago, she purchased a central haptic device through which she can feel her flowers and ensure their well-being. This device allows Megan to have that peace of mind and check up on her flowers in a non-impulsive/distracting way. Because again, she knows 'she can communicate with them'. Through this device, Megan can hear her plants' breathing, see how warm or cold they are and also assess the plant's mood based on their aliveness. Megan has complete control over her plants' well-being.....



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The design space is vast:

What emotions are critical in communicating plants
' well-being to owners?

How do we produce those emotions through haptic sketches
?

How can we measure the
'delight' factor based on users' feedback?

What are the implications if we combine touch with other modalities such as auditory and vision
?

Why not ONLY auditory and
/or vision?


So far, we have made two sketches to explor the design space and test the feasibility of our idea:


Sketch #1: Producing a breathing pattern


In this sketch, we tried to communicate to user the plant
' breathing pattern which we did in lab 4. Here is the link to our lab 4 blog in which there is the Youtube link to our demo:

http://aidin-cpsc543.blogspot.com/2012/02/lab-3-haptic-communication.html

Sketch #2: Producing a vibration affect

In this sketch, we aim to communicate the plant's mood based on varying the frequency of the vibration. If the plant is 'sad' and not doing well, the vibrations will be infrequent whereas if the plant is feeling happy and alive, there will be high-frequency vibrations. Here is the video to demonstrate this idea:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDmG2vI6oIc

What
' next??

To build more sketches and inquire about the questions mentioned above :)



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