Assignment 7+8 – Project Proposals

Creating new screen-based UX design.

Can be based on past field trips:

  • Futureworld – interactions with art
  • Hawkers/Canteens – experience buying food
  • MRT – experience with transportation
  • Interactive design
  • Food UX
  • Transportation UX

Screen-based experience
Can be speculative… hypothetical, abstract, suppositive

Create an experience, interaction, response using…

  • Technology
  • App
  • Website
  • Wearable technology
  • Interface

Wearables

  • Limit interaction with smartphones
  • Useful in an everyday context
  • Wearables have become recognised as the future of technology
  • Smartwatches and activity trackers are so popular but they don’t do anything that a smartphone can’t
  • They aren’t essential

“There will be plenty of people who will benefit from smartwatches, but there won’t be many people who will be worse off for not having one.”

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With that in mind.. my research has come across some products that have influenced my ideas for a project.

Digital Tattoo – Project Underskin

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  • Technology and fashion reaching beyond the wrist
  • Smart digital tattoo implanted in your hand and interacts with things you touch

“It can unlock your front door, trade data with a handshake, or even tell you if you have low blood sugar.”

  • Cultural precincts may oppose this but its not a huge step forward from tattoos, piercings, birth control
  • It runs off of your body’s electro-chemical energy and can send out NFC signals
  • Can recognise location and body movements

—-> Digital Tattoo for MRT users

  • Instead of a smartwatch/smartphone/wristband, having a digital implant to pay for rides
  • Can track your location so reduces need to queue for the card-sensor stations
  • Accessible and useful for everyone as the MRT is used by all

 

Moment by Somatic Labs

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  • A smartwatch with no screen –questions screen as a means of interface interaction
  • Communicates by sending vibrations in each corner of the watch, that the user is able to recognise
  • Connects with smartphones, creates vibration patterns to communicate who is calling/directions/music

—-> SMRT Wristband

  • Use to pay for rides
  • Can vibrate on arrival (to wake sleeping passengers)
  • Vibrate to communicate directions and aid people walking around the stations (signage is confusing)
  • Alternatively, create an app that can do all this
  • Minimises the things you have to carry
  • Makes process quicker
  • Everyone is using their phone anyway
  • Issues –availability of smartphone to everyone? Functionality with a dead battery?

 

Smart Contact Lens by Google and Novartis

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A contact lens to help diabetics monitor their insulin levels from tears. Uses a small glucose sensor and a wireless chip to transmit information from the eye.

  • health tracker
  • removes the need to diabetics to pin prick themselves
  • simple to use
  • design makes it subtle to wear -also not different to normal contacts
  • Google is even working on LED lights that will notify a wearer of low blood sugar right in their field of view -immediate feedback to user
  • can be used for non-diabetics to simply monitor healthy eating/dieting

I’d love to find a way to use this innovation…

 

More ideas I want to explore

  • Addressing the ‘issue’ of queueing and waiting times -providing an experience during these times and activating the dead space/public space
  • EG bringing a taste of the FutureWorld exhibition to the MRT – interactive walls to entertain the people in the space, enhance the boring and tired experience and also to advertise the exhibition to encourage people to go
  • Interactive advertising to provide a taste-test of the experience

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