A. PROJECT TITLE
Pillow Best Friend
B. PROJECT STATEMENT OF PURPOSE *
Nowadays, people are stressed out by high pressure of contemporary society. Teenagers obtain the pressure from school, they finish their assignments before the deadline and struggle on getting higher grades. Graduate students need to find a big company and an internship job to earn a higher salary. Employees need to do overtime work to make their boss satisfied for them to get an opportunity for promotion and salary increase. It seems like everyone in this society are living under pressure. At the end of the day, people can only relax and take off the fatigue of the day when they are in bed. But poor sleep is still a common problem in modern society. Therefore, we want to make a multi-functional pillow to help people rest and be able to let out their stress.
C. PROJECT PLAN *
Our project aims to help people in contemporary society who are stressed out by high-pressure work. Before we formally start the project, we will make a diagram and some prototypes to make sure that the whole project will go smoothly. (will finish this by May 1st). After we finish the preliminary work, we will start to write the code and build the cirucuts following the diagram (will end this by May 5th). After all, these are finished, we will add some text and marks on our project to give our tester the clue to navigate them explore our project . (will finish this by May 7th). Lastly, we will make a film about our project to give a complete story of our project. (will end this by May 10th before class).
D. CONTEXT AND SIGNIFICANCE
According to my research, the average sleep time of human is 8 hours a day which indicate that a third of the time in our life is in bed. Especially people in the contemporary society need to face varieties of high-pressure missions in daily life, pillow is the last peaceful place for them. Thus, we want to make this pillow to give it several functions depending on the skills we learned in class. At the time that we punch the pillow, a character on-screen will give feedback that is trying to advocate “no violence”. This really aligns with my definition of interaction which contains the input and output feedback. We are trying to show that sleep is significant for modern people, they need to focus on their inside mental health more. For us, we are trying to give the pillow more function and make it more entertaining instead of just an average pillow. For whom is your project intended and why is it of special value to its targeted audience? Our targeted audience is all the modern people who aren’t sleeping well