For our final project, we once again switched our projects with team 3. We exchanged the concepts and started working on the concept “insomnia’. We initially chose to elaborate a temperature controllable sleeping mask with other provided concepts. However, while we were combining the concepts into a form of wearable device, we concluded the final product would be impractical and further disruptive for the people with sleeping conditions.I suggested my teammates to combine the concepts in the form of a non-wearable, independent product such as the lamp diffuser that one of the team 3 members presented.
We came up with a creation that has a diffuser spreading a pleasant aroma on one side, and a speaker emitting white noise on the other side. Above the speaker, it also has a blue light projector casting a calming blue light on the ceiling. The person dealing with insomnia can synchronize their breathing with the expanding and retracting light circle on the ceiling, guided by the blue light projector. It serves as a meditative practice to aid in falling asleep. The two parts of the product (Diffuser/ Speaker & Blue light projector) are detachable for users to clean or fill the water inside the diffuser while avoiding speaker and projector touching water. Essentially, we’ve consolidated tools like white noise, blue light, and aroma into one comprehensive idea.
The prototype below is a physical sample of our final product in advance of designing the CAD model. All three of our teammates participated in conducting the prototype while Kelly prepared the tools, Jasmin prepared the materials and I finalized a sample sketch of our changed prototype design.
