The Busy Buoy measures busyness (yes it's a word) or workload.
-Imagine you're a VCE student smashing numerous exam papers within the confines of your room, in order to get 99.99, to study medicine......... at Monash of course. OR
-Imagine you're in an office, its Friday, and your boss wants a hero shot, exploded view and developmental sketches for your new product by the end of the day. OR
-Imagine you're a uni lecturer scrambling to correct piles of assignments in his/her office so you can have at least some free time over the weekend.
These individuals are very busy. They do not want to be interrupted/disturbed.
The busy buoy is made up of a desktop control unit, to which you can manually input your busyness level (Unit = BBs (Busy Buoys). Or the desktop unit can automatically detect busyness via space movements (IR sensor) or sound spikes (>x dB etc, microphone) to gauge busyness.
The busy buoy also has a mountable buoy unit, which you stick outside your room, office, cubical etc. It displays yours BB level. Colleagues, students or family members can use your busyness to decide whether to interrupt you at that point in time or wait till when you are less busy.
Other applications include wireless network input, so the boss can monitor employees, determine the best time to call a meeting etc.
Yeah that's the product really, some issues i need to consider are: everyone's capable workload is different, how do other gauges your busynes level from the BB unit value & privacy issues i suppose.
What do you guys think, suggestions? Thanks.
Daniel Dob.
1 comment:
daniel i think this is a really good idea.
the amount of times my mum has told me to get cloths from the laundry ect when i am in the middle of something is ridiculous.
the shape and overall appearence of your concept design is really subtle, it would fit into a desk or work environment anywhere because it looks rather like a clock, i dont know if this is what you were getting at but yeh it looks great.
-georgia
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