Week 4 - Design project ideas

This week we started designing the ideas for the semester project. At first, we wasted lots of time for the brainstorming at beginning. Our ideas have been restricted because we spent too much time on worried about the technology issues. However, we took one step back and started focus on the target users and the sustanability for the design process, thenwe consider the technology isses. After the discussion, we got some different ideas.

1. E-business Card
The idea is from when people try to get the personal information form eachother in business situation, most people will give a bussiness card or write the information on the paper. However, its easy to lost the cards and papers and also consider about waste papers for the enviroment issues. Therefore, we try to design an e-business card that can save information and then combine with the mobile phone technology. When using the e-business card, people just need to toch the mobilephone from eachother, and their information can be transform autmatically.

2. Bus reminder mechine

At first,the target user for this device is for blind people that cant see the bus timetable on notice board. Therefore, our design idea is build a voice device that install in bus stops. The device will annouce the number of the bus when bus arriving, so blind people can hear the sound and catch the correct bus. Moreover, we also consider about the technology that might be use in this design idea and how to achieve the device.
Technology - RFID technologyInstall the different RFID tags into different buses and each tags have different codes. The RFIDreader will sensor the code then send annouce information. In addition, consider about the sustanability,we are going to use solar energy in this device.

3.Holographic story book
The design idea is really like an "electron book". As we know when we read the book, we read throughpage by page and sometimes it feels really boring for childrens. Therefore, we are going to design different kind of holographic pictures, and use projector display on blank pages. This design can makes children feel more interesting when reading, and also save papers in order to consider about sustanability.