A website to share your memory of childhood and see how your memory and others' will affect how the memory monster looks like.

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Description

Human grow, learn and establish their identity through the past stories they experienced and the memories they stored. Sometimes people who has negative past experience want to erase such memories. But should they erased such memories, are they who they were? Based on these thoughts, we want to create a creature whose identities are defined by the collective memories of a group (like ITP). Its characteristics and look will vary based on what users share.

Classes

Introduction to Computational Media, Introduction to Computational Media

A set of meditating tool that resonates with user's breath, help them breathe more consciously and calm them down

https://jingdezign.wordpress.com/2018/12/05/research-on-breathing-for-project3-breathing-cave/

Description

Breathing is an action that is vital to our lives yet often ignored by us. We get so used to it that we forget we are actually controlling it constantly, nevertheless to remember how important it is. Breathing is our life instinct. It is one of the signs that we are still present at this world. The way we breathe will also affect our internal state.

But today people, especially those in the cities, are live in such a hectic lifestyle that many of us are experiencing more and more anxiety, stress and even insomnia. We are so busy in interacting with different external things that we forget to interact with ourselves.

Hence I set out to design Breathenate to help people interact with themselves through breathing — to slow down, to be more self-aware, to focus on the present and let the tension flows. Functional wise, it is a set of tool that mirrors user’s breath pattern and guides them breathe deeper and slower. Eventually, it might help users (including me!) build up a good breathing habit.

The piece consists of 2 parts:
– A soft waistband that can detect user’s breath pattern using stretch sensor and will instruct them how to breathe through vibration motors
– A balloon that will inflate and deflate in responding to user’s breathing pattern

Classes

Introduction to Physical Computing