The heirloom project
The idea:
Time with the family is important and should remain in memory. These product will help capture family data: like conversations and photos to store them in a physical object. After a certain period of time it can be open and the content can be viewed on the home computer.
The heirloom will be passond on from generation to generation.
A intuitive navigation makes it easy to browse through images in oreder to find family members and conversation snippets.
Managing Goals and Tasks
During the meetings goals, task and sharing (with friends, family etc.) were determined as focus areas. The concept map shows key entities and relationships between the areas.
Next balance as a keyword between the focus areas was detected.
1. Protorype: the limbs on this bracelet are standing for the different tasks. All task belong to different goals in life and the face of the bracelet is showing these goals. The face also shows the balance between the goals (through the tasks that has been fulfilled).
2. Prototype: The second prototype is divided into two objects. The stand represents the goals and can be laid on the table, the other object, representing the task, is portable. By putting the two together, the portable object will show the user his/her balance in life. It bends towards the most achieved goals.
Second Prototype: Portable RSS Feed Reader
The second prototype still has the theme of the RSS Feed reader. But I reduced the function of the alarm clock, because the alarm clock was not essential for the object. Moreover my goal was to create a more intuitive object to present individual rss feeds.
In every object is a little speaker, that reads the news. The objects are connecting wireless to the computer and can download the latest feeds. As a feedback the object is vibrating if a new feed is uploaded.
The objects are magnetic and hold together as a whole. Every object is one RSS Feed and can be taken or traded. By putting two ore more objects together and shake them the feeds getting mixed up, so that feeds from other user can be taken. By only shake one object the next Feed will be read.
The idea was a shape that can be put together to one entire object as well as into individual objects.
First Prototype: Alarm Clock
The idea of the first prototype was a alarm clock that would read rss feeds in the morning. By providing personal rss feeds it should be easier and more interesting for the user to wake up. The user starts also informed into his/her day.
This object would read to the user in the morning the latest rss feeds. With the buttons the user could go forward and backwards in the list of rss feeds. It also can be turned in order to switch off. Problems: This object looks more like a alarm clock than a feed reader, it is not very easy to carry around and the shape is not explaining its content.
This paper prototype can be turned in order to not face the user. The object would then be turned off.
