Read the article on ambient computing interfaces and explore the Google little signals website. Think about how the work you are doing on your project and how it may be inspired by the interactions that are used in the little signals experiments. Identify which of the little signals are your favorite and why? Can you see any other ways you might use that particular little signals interface?
My idea for this week consists of a glove that can help people with arthritis affecting the hands, mobolity, and specifically grip force.
While coming up with the idea, I realized how the little signals experiments main goal was to notify the user in subtle ways, in order to create a better living environment. This got me thinking, around its idea, and how the product I came up with is somewhat similar, in the way that it should activate when the user wants it to, and in a subtle way.
My favorite devices are wind, and rhythm. Wind is very interesting to me, because having so simple and natural such as wind seems very intuitive to me. Also it is would be relaxing to see nearby leaves within the environment move around. The other one is rhythm, because I am a very auditive person, and the idea of a device that could notify me about something by blending in ambient sound seems very elegant to me.
I might see them for smart home control. They could be connected to a ecosystem, and link different kinds of notifications into different areas. Let say that you have a food delivery, when you get a notification that it has arrived, you could the lights in your kitchen turn on, by the tap device, and the A/C in whichever room temperature you are in to change accordingly. This would expand the usability scope, while also keeping notifications to a minimum.
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