Saturday, September 6, 2008

measurement sketch

This product measures a person's anxiety based on heartrate and amount of sweat on the user's hand. After talking to Robbie about this in class, I think this product will work better without a display screen that tells the user how to cope with their anxieties. Instead, the product will simply glow a certain color, which will tell the user how severe their anxiety is. It will then be up to the user to decide how they want to deal with the information.
Emily C

3 comments:

Student Contributor said...

Nice concept!! But it might be a bit impractical having so much bulk all at the front so high off the thumb. Is it possible to make it larger in other dimentions and reduce the width. Just a thought! Maybe it wont be an issue but I guess we'll see when it comes to modelling.

Laura.

Student Contributor said...

Yeah, i agree with Laura...the top section may need to be scaled down a little. However, its a really great idea, and i think that sometimes we can lean towards putting in a LCD screen 'just because'- but its not always needed! I like how the device alerts the user to their anxiety, but doesnt actually force them to deal with it. Nice work.

Jessica

Robbie said...

This is neat, I think it would be good to explore some other methods of communicating with the user. Are all the ideas wearable?

-Robbie