Final Project Ideas

Final Project Ideas

 

Final Project Idea 1

Title:  I care for your depression

Topic or Issue: Nowadays, people all suffer an intense lifestyle and a lot of negative emotions. Sometimes it is hard and desperate for them to step out of depression and low-spirits. Therefore other people can give a helping hand.

Insight and Research:  In the health lecture in Orientation Week, we watched a video made by the World Health Organization (WHO). It inspired me of the issue of depression. It’s not something scary, and it is just a special disease that requires our efforts.

Also, the Mood Reflecting Floor gives me the idea of how to demonstrate the depressed mood as I introduced in my previous blog post.

Specific Audience: I would like to make an interactive bear which stands for people who suffer from depression. And users can hug it, say positive words to it and so on to help them recover. According to users’ movement, animation and music will change so as to motivate users.

Intended Impact: I wish the users can understand the situation of the depression suffers and do them a favor. For those who are low-spirits, the project can be a fun thing to play. Also, the interaction is not only between users and the project but also in the real world between humans.

 

Final Project Idea 2

Title:  Dance Mirror

Topic or Issue: Users are wearing a coat which can detect the movement of them. And the exact same movement will be shown in a ballet style. The output will be a screen or a small ballet doll. 

Insight and Research:

I was inspired by Daniel Rozin’s interactive mirrors and the Interactive Cloth Simulation as I introduced in my previous blog post.

Daniel Rozin’s interactive mirrors:  http://www.smoothware.com/danny/

Specific Audience: People who want to feel they are dancing ballet & people who want to have an elegant body position because it can give people the sense of dancing in the desired way and the experience is also interesting.

Intended Impact: Maybe it can remind people that you are beautiful if you are confident in yourself because there is an elegant ballet girl in your heart shown in the mirror.

 

Final Project Idea 3

Title: Wave game

Topic or Issue: I would like to create an interactive water artifact using motors as an output and light sensors as the input. By casting light into the dark water, the motor will move accordingly. Thus, the water will create waves and there are a huge variety of shapes with water. So, the visual effect will be great.

Insight and Research: 

Rainterior – Interactive Water Display

This interactive project simulates the way the rain falls. The interaction using water is extremely fun and beautiful.

Specific Audience: This interactive artifact kind of symbolizing how our mind looks like. Light stands for a thought-provoking idea that stimulates our thinking in our minds. It doesn’t have a specific audience.

Intended Impact: It is interesting and people can enjoy it, and also relate it with our real-life experience.

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