Friday, September 26, 2008

Model

This product helps determine how much anxiety a person has by taking measurements of heart rate and amount of sweat the user's hands produce. The colorful bands at the top provide something for the user to move up and down to keep busy. The yellow bands at the bottom represent dividers between the different level lights. The higher the user's anxiety, the more lights light up and the brighter they get. In my next model I plan on making the model larger to hold all of the measuring components and fit more people's hands.

Emily C

1 comment:

Student Contributor said...

Hey Emily, i like your design its very colourful! Is there going to be any issue with the bands falling off or getting in the way of the sensor contact surface, or are they situated away from these contact areas? Its a good idea to use something that can be fiddled with in a product that measures anxiety but could this feature be apart of the actual meausring process? The more fiddling the more anxious... If so, it could be a solid component of the product, ie. dials, sliders or springs perhaps that respond to pressing wih coloured lighting.

Andy g :)