{"id":186,"date":"2014-12-12T14:22:05","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T19:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/winter2014\/jeff\/"},"modified":"2015-10-28T16:08:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T20:08:36","slug":"jeff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/winter2014\/jeff\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em>Hub Uy, Xi Liu, Luke Kao<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>In a world of increasing diaspora, &ldquo;Jeff&rdquo; is an interactive teddy bear designed to let children (ages 3-7 years old) easily send text messages of love to their parents abroad.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hubertuy.com\/?p=2243\">http:\/\/www.hubertuy.com\/?p=2243<\/a><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-186 gallery-columns-0 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/winter2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2014\/12\/1418425177_1copy.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" src=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/winter2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2014\/12\/1418425177_1copy-300x208.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"teddy bear\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/winter2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2014\/12\/1418425177_1copy-300x208.png 300w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/winter2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2014\/12\/1418425177_1copy.png 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h3>Description<\/h3>\n<p>We are living in a hyper-global society where diaspora is increasingly becoming commonplace. In the Philippines, for example, 10% of its population, over 10 million people, are living and working abroad. As the numbers continue to grow every year, we slowly see a generation of children growing up without their mothers and a generation of fathers working to support their children who they will never see growing up.<\/p>\n<p>Although social networks and smart devices have made communication with loved ones abroad easier, these platforms are not designed with children in mind. If a child wants to Skype with dad, for example, the child would need to ask mom to open Skype for him. What if we could design a product specifically for children to easily send their messages of love to their parents abroad?<\/p>\n<p>This is where &ldquo;Jeff&rdquo; comes in. &ldquo;Jeff&rdquo; is interactive teddy bear designed to let children (ages 3-7 years old) easily send text messages of love to their parents abroad. By simply hugging &ldquo;Jeff&rdquo;, a child will be able to, for example, send an &ldquo;I miss you, dad&rdquo; to his father abroad. The father abroad can also send back his love by simply texting a reply and lighting up &ldquo;Jeff&rdquo;s heart.<\/p>\n<p>Here is how &ldquo;Jeff&rdquo; works: <\/p>\n<p>At the heart of &ldquo;Jeff&rdquo; resides an Arduino with a GSM shield, a SIM card, a motor that moves Jeff&rsquo;s head and body, a force sensitive resistor (FSR), and a few LEDs and a 12-volt battery to power everything. <\/p>\n<p>Once powered, a white LED will light up to show that the Arduino is initialized and ready to send text messages. <\/p>\n<p>When a child hugs &ldquo;Jeff&rdquo;, the FSR will trigger the GSM shield to send a pre-composed text message to a hard-coded number (the parent&rsquo;s number). &ldquo;Jeff&rdquo; will then vibrate and with the motors, move its head to signify to the child that he has successfully sent the message of love. <\/p>\n<p>The parent abroad, upon receiving the message, can simply reply. The GSM shield will receive the text message and trigger a red LED to light up, indicating to the child that his parent has sent back his love.  <\/p>\n<h3>Classes<\/h3>\n<p>Introduction to Physical Computing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hub Uy, Xi Liu, Luke Kao In a world of increasing diaspora, &ldquo;Jeff&rdquo; is an interactive teddy bear designed to let children (ages 3-7 years old) easily send text messages of love to their parents abroad. http:\/\/www.hubertuy.com\/?p=2243 Description We are living in a hyper-global society where diaspora is increasingly becoming commonplace. In the Philippines, for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/winter2014\/jeff\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jeff<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16156,335,12903,16157,462,16158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hub-uy","category-introduction-to-physical-computing","category-jeffrey-feddersen","category-luke-kao","category-projects","category-xi-liu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/winter2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/winter2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/winter2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/winter2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/winter2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/winter2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4187,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/winter2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/4187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/winter2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/winter2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/winter2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}