Final Project Proposal
By Xiaoyi Cai (Mia) Date: 4/13/2021
*Partner: Amber ❀
ONE: Running, running!🏃
With the development of society, people, especially young adults, become busier and busier. Because of their faster and faster pace of life, they have fewer and fewer chances to spend time on exercise, which will lead to serious problems to their bodies. Nowadays, many so-called “senile diseases” are appearing more and more among young people. Therefore, it’s high time for us to pay attention to this problem, and try to figure it out.
We come up with an idea related to this issue. Considering the fast-paced working and studying conditions, we decide to design a project that can help them to do some exercise during their short break times. According to our plan, this project is similar to a running game that allows the characters in the game to jump through the barriers. However, we are going to make some changes to it. Instead of using the mouse to control the character, we plan to use certain sensors (haven’t decided) to detect the movement of the audience’s body. To be more specific, in order to let the character keeps going and jump over the barrier., the audience should also run in place and jump. In this way, the audience can gain his/her necessary exercise to make him/her have a better body. Further, this kind of easy game can help the audience to have happiness and get relax to some extent, which means he/she can have a better mental condition.
TWO: Good Good Study, Day Day Up📚
Nowadays, the requirements for children are getting higher and higher. Even at a very young age, they are asked to learn a lot of things, otherwise, he/she cannot keep up with his/her peers. However, not every kid will be happy to gain such a lot of knowledge, therefore, we come up with an idea to provide a funny way for those children to learn. We decide to create a set of cards, and each of the cards will contain the knowledge that they have to learn. When the kid uses the card to trigger the sensor, the knowledge will suddenly appear on the screen. And we will use Processing to make the knowledge into funny images/animations/videos, etc.
Probably we will add more functions to accomplish kid’s performance. In this way, the children can have more passion for studying.
THREE: Drink Water !!!💧
Personally, I’m really a person who doesn’t drink water very often. According to EatingWell, not drinking enough water will lead to serious problems for our bodies. And I deeply agree with it. However, sometimes I still forget to drink the water or might feel troublesome to get water. This kind of phenomenon can be often seen among my friends. Therefore, we decide to design a project that can help people to drink water every day. By using Processing, we want to create a little tree on the screen of the computer (because computers have become one of the most important tools for people to work and study, they almost appear everywhere in our daily life). And the tree will grow up if the user drinks more water. Also, we might add more interesting functions to it, like blooming. To detect how much water the user drinks, we might use humidity resistance or pressure sensor, or any other sensors that can work.