Thoughtless Acts – Clint Anderson
Our midterm project is large scale, pressure sensitive pad. It can be used to monitor and track user input with a surface that is much larger than the standard small (laptop) touchpad and with more varied objects than the standard finger or stylus:
1) What is happening in the scene: (Pedro in Chair)
Pedro is comfortably sitting in a lounge chair. The thoughtless act: Pedro foregoes sitting upright and chooses to bend his back (not using a cushion for support) and puts his feet on the desk.
2) Possible physical and/or virtual design solution(s).
Use our super-pad as the sitting surface. This can measure his back and buttocks, and remind him to sit upright. It can be used over time to track his sitting habits, and make a time graph of his skeletal structure (sitting x amount of time for y years) to ‘scare’ him into sitting upright.
1) What is happening in the scene: (Treadmill)
This is an exercise treadmill. It gives a slightly different running signature than jogging, since participants do not ‘push’ the ground, but rather, allow their feet to move backwards, while their legs counteract the motion, keeping the body in the same place.
I used to run cross country. It is important to roll the feet, not to land flat-footed, and to kick back. The thoughtless act: Not paying attention to the way you run on a treadmill.
2) Possible physical and/or virtual design solution(s).
We can use the super pad to track gait, and to ensure pressures coincide with the correct foot location.
1) What is happening in the scene: (Door Knocking)
I’m knocking on my door. There are usually floor mats in front of home doors. At Berkeley BiD, you must ring a doorbell to enter. Someone unknown walks to the door. There is a keyboard system that allows a person to type the name of the desired person, but it is currently not operating. The thoughtless act: Entering the room (Q: "How did you get in here? Who let you in?" A: "Hmm, I dunno...Maybe I knocked? Some random dude came...")
2) Possible physical and/or virtual design solution(s).
In conjunction with a web cam tracker, we can use the weight of a person to minimize the list of people a web-cam would have to sort through. Instead of 50 probable guests, because I am 184lbs today, and because there are only 7 guests who are in the range of 174 to 194 lbs, the webcam can find a match much faster and more accurately.
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