First: Dancing with the rhythm
First I’m trying to come up with something to help University students release their pressure. Because I feel that the pressure on today’s college students is too heavy and something should be done to help them release their academic pressure. And the first thing that came to my mind was some simple and passionate way of exercise, so what exercise can be made into a project by us, I continued to think. Then I thought of the dancing machine, where people would step back and forth according to the instructions on the screen, and then score points based on how correctly they danced. So my first idea was a project somewhat similar to the dance machine, we wanted to wear sensors on the user’s hands and feet, and then follow the rhythm of the music we played, some images would appear on the screen, and people’s hands and feet would need to move according to the images and dance to the music. Depending on the performance of different users, users will also receive different rating feedback. I think dancing to the rhythm of the music is a very suitable way for college students to relieve stress, and it’s also a very engaging game.
Second: Punch to release pressure
My second project idea was also aimed at reducing student stress, so I naturally came up with the idea of hitting something, like a boxing sandbag, etc. So I envisioned putting the pressure sensor in some soft material that can be punched, people can use our project to vent their emotions, and whenever they punch our project, some corresponding text and images will appear on the screen to further reduce the user’s pressure. These words can be encouraging words like “take your time, things will always get better”; they can also be some witty and humorous words. It doesn’t really matter what form they take, the main thing is that something will appear on the screen after people hit our project to make them feel better and less stressed.
Third: “Color-Drum-Rhythm” Game
My next project is still focused on the student community, I want to make a game between students, it can be a game of cooperation or competition between two people. Because I want people to fully engage, I plan to make a two-player cooperative game. And when designing the form of this game, I thought of the research I did earlier, the project about laser cutting drums. So I think this game can also be combined with music, it will be made into a rhythm game, the screen shows some color blocks, and the player needs to hit the corresponding drum according to the different colors. There may be several drums of different colors. I haven’t quite figured out exactly how to implement it, because it’s pretty difficult to make the drums and install the sensors, but the direction and format I think is a good idea: a two-player cooperative music rhythm game.
