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Proposed by Steve Lu

Under the guidance of Rudi

 

 

 

The project aims to help people express their affection without risking their treassured friendship. It’s inspired by the feature of the hotpot restaurant shown in the GIF. Users interact with the project through a series of buttons, while seeing how actuators and light work.

 

 

 

 

 

The following

IS  simply for myself to keep a record of my ideas,

and IS NOT  part of the proposal as required.

 

The idea came to me in the class of saturday, and it was inspired by my harrowing experience in the attempt to develop romantic relationship with the girl that I love. Hesitated, I am, trying to express my affection, at the risk of losing a friendship that I treassure. So, I wonder if there could be an unmannered and inconsequential way to know her thought.

I was inspired by the kind of restaurant shown in the GIF, where diners who don’t know each other sit on the two sides. They will answer a series of questions to see how they match up depending on their answers. If the two both agree to lower down the clapboard, the clapboard in the middle shall go down, allowing the two to see each other. I thought it would be a good idea to adopt the decision-making mechanism and also the way the two get in-time feedback.

So, the project would offer a series of questions for the two to answer, nominally to test their tacitness. They are going to make choices through tapping down buttions in front of them, while there should be some design that prevent them from seeing each other’s choice directly. A LED light board would show the two the tacitness on a scale from 0 to 100.

The final question would be something like “do you love him/her”. If they both have an affection for each other, a Cupid will get out and shoot two arrows with velcro attaching on the top (inspired by Rudi’s suggestion about using actuators as feedback). If one or none of them shows affection, the LED light board would do something else. In this way, only the one who loves its counterpart would know what’s going on, while ambiguity is left to the one who doesn’t love, thus protecting lover’s fragile heart and saving the relationship from a potential disaster.