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| VOCquet | ||
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| Author(s): | Jennifer Kirchherr |  |
| Instructor: | Igoe, Tom Papadopoulos, Despina |
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| Class: | Sensor Workshop Personal Expression & Wearable |
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| URL: | http://---coming soon--- | |
| Documents: | VOCquet(JPEG) | |
| Keywords: | wearables, sensors, physical computing | |
| VOCquet is a wearable sensor in the shape of a flower that detects the air quality in the immediate vecinity of the wearer. | ||
| VOCquet is a playful comment on local air quality. Shaped like flowers, VOCquet opens to a full bloom when no air contaminants are detected, and wilts in the presence of contaminants. VOCquet is a lighthearted look at the quality of the air we breathe, not an imperical measurement of air contaminants. It should not be used in place of calibrated air monitoring systems, rather as a whimsical look at our invisible environment. | ||
| Background: | Environmental monitoring is conducted in many industries as both a standard safety procedure and to comply with OSHA regulations which state that a workers’ exposures to chemical may not exceed those chemicals permissible exposure limit or PEL. This monitoring is accomplished through a combination of area sampling and badges that are worn on individual employee’s clothing. The badges are usually plastic, monochromatic, and often give little or no indication of the substance that they are monitoring for. In other words, a badge for detecting formaldehyde levels frequently looks exactly the same as a badge for detecting xylene. An interesting property of these badges is that they can only tell you if you have been exposed to dangerous levels of a given substance AFTER the fact. That is to say that there is no visible physical change in the badge if the worker happens to be exposed. The badges need to be sent back to the company that sold them for analysis. Each employee is tracked by a number on the badge. If the company finds a badge that has experienced a high level of exposure, the conclusion is that employee who was supposedly wearing that badge is presumed also to have been exposed. I wanted to take this idea of 'exposure', make it less serious, and bring it into real time. To read more about the development of VOCquet go to: http//www.jennyjeanne.com/classes/wearables/?cat=7 | |
| Audience: | Anyone who breathes. | |
| User Scenario: | VOCquet can be worn in any situation as a playful comment on the local air quality. | |
| Technical System Description: | coming soon | |
| Project References, Research and Literature: | coming soon | |
| Conclusions: | coming soon | |