Thursday 2 April 2015

Social Object: Things Con Proposal

Nomo-Wearable (Eric Lin Yuan-Tang)
Context
A wearable whose purpose is to keep the user away from engaging social media by subjecting the user to unpleasant physical feedback on their arms/hands when operating a mobile phone.

Rationale
Nomophobia is a trend to society that could lead to negative results if leave unanswered. The project aim to bring people back from virtual world and virtual social contact into real social life.

Methodology/Technology
The methodology is quite simple, the device uses a passive radio wave detector with low sensitivity, which will only respond when the detector is near a radio wave transmitter i.e. Mobile phone. As the detector shows a signal, Arduino activates the physical feedback device applying unpleasant feeling to the user encouraging them to drop the phone.

Presentation

I am going to build several models with different feedback system to allow people to try the prototypes on location.


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