2015年8月6日星期四

Week 2 Class Exercise: Augmented Reality Technology

PS: My first idea has nothing to do with augmented reality technology, but I'm not gonna get rid of it and you can check it out in the second section.

 

Refrigerator is a common appliance that I use almost every day. Particularly in summer, we have to put all our food and drinks in it to keep them fresh and cool. However, there is a big problem and inconvenience to adjust the temperature and humidity of a frige since we have to open it to operate. Thus, I wondered if we could use augmented reality technology to tackle this problem. 


The solution I came up with is to project all the stuff in the frige outside with the temperature and humidity displayed in figures. Based on the food freshness, the user could adjust those two controls by swiping left or right of the related icon. For instance, if the food in the frozen chamer are not frozen and starts to turn bad, the user will lower the temperature and humidity of the frozen chamber.



Multifunctional smart pen


When I was asked the question of thinking a frequently used device, the first couple of devices came to my mind are all electronic products. For instance, laptop, kindle and mobile phone. Nevertheless, they are all high-tech products that already have varieties of interactions with users. I wanna do something innovative and then I thought of pen, the common and simple object I use almost every day. And surprisingly, it seems didn't change at all even the information technology has a rapid development in the last decades. 

I have so many pens, pencils and markers to do different work. Their thickness and ink color of are quite different. If I want to draw something, I have to bring them all and it's so frustrating. 




Hence, I thought of an idea to tackle the problem. As shown in the picture below, there are two new ways of interaction, tap and rotate. With these interactions, we can switch the color and thickness of a pen to make it very powerful.







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