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These are incomplete installations made in my daily life.
Speech Prompt Mask
2022.10
A mask that makes use of a voice-activated light
Introduction
The device on display is a mouthpiece that makes use of a voice-activated light. When the wearer makes a sound, a small light on the mask changes its brightness according to the size of the wearer's voice.
Objective
The user wears the mask and the device so that the light can light up to alert the other person when they are speaking, allowing others to notice the user's words.
Background
During the time I had the covid, I wore a mask all the time and the people I interacted with often ignored my words or could not concentrate while I was talking. During the covid time, people often wore masks, which, while protecting them from the virus, also made it difficult for many people to communicate with others.
After conducting some offline and online research, I became aware that hearing and vision interfere with each other due to the McGurk effect. When the visual and auditory senses do not receive the same information, the visual information interferes with the auditory representation. Therefore, when communicating with a person wearing a mask, it is easy to lose sight of the person's voice or to lose focus on what they are saying because they lose their visual judgement. So I have been thinking about how to make the person pay attention to their communication when wearing a mask. This might require some visual reminders. A device on the mask that controls the light according to the sound level might help me.
Method
Using the sound sensor to control the NeoPixel to light up.
Visually, I wanted to present the device in the shape of a headband and be deformable. The power pack is placed behind the user's head and the light panel is on the left side of the user's face and can be fixed to the mouthpiece. The microphone is inside the mouthpiece on the right side of the user's face, near the mouth. An ear rest is fitted to the headband near the ear to help the user hold the device in place.
2022.10
A mask that makes use of a voice-activated light
Introduction
The device on display is a mouthpiece that makes use of a voice-activated light. When the wearer makes a sound, a small light on the mask changes its brightness according to the size of the wearer's voice.
Objective
The user wears the mask and the device so that the light can light up to alert the other person when they are speaking, allowing others to notice the user's words.
Background
During the time I had the covid, I wore a mask all the time and the people I interacted with often ignored my words or could not concentrate while I was talking. During the covid time, people often wore masks, which, while protecting them from the virus, also made it difficult for many people to communicate with others.
After conducting some offline and online research, I became aware that hearing and vision interfere with each other due to the McGurk effect. When the visual and auditory senses do not receive the same information, the visual information interferes with the auditory representation. Therefore, when communicating with a person wearing a mask, it is easy to lose sight of the person's voice or to lose focus on what they are saying because they lose their visual judgement. So I have been thinking about how to make the person pay attention to their communication when wearing a mask. This might require some visual reminders. A device on the mask that controls the light according to the sound level might help me.
Method
Using the sound sensor to control the NeoPixel to light up.
Visually, I wanted to present the device in the shape of a headband and be deformable. The power pack is placed behind the user's head and the light panel is on the left side of the user's face and can be fixed to the mouthpiece. The microphone is inside the mouthpiece on the right side of the user's face, near the mouth. An ear rest is fitted to the headband near the ear to help the user hold the device in place.
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Daily Set
2023.11
Introduction
I made a device about an everyday aid that people can use in their daily lives. The device combines a humidity sensor and an ambient light sensor, which advises the user about the weather and light conditions at their destination. When ambient light is detected and the surroundings become dark, LEDs can automatically adjust the lighting. The humidity monitor determines whether rain is imminent based on the air humidity to alert the user to take shelter in advance of rainfall. The device can be carried around the user's neck, like a headband-like device, as a semi-wearable device.
Background
A large part of the reason I undertook this project was because of my own problems: I have night blindness, which means that my eyesight deteriorates in relatively dark environments, and I am constantly in a state of insecurity and invisibility to the environment because I don't have a torch in my hand to carry things on my way home. Secondly, as I live in London, where the weather is often unpredictable and there is often a sudden downpour of rain on the road, giving no time to react, the rainfall warning can effectively avoid the problem of getting wet.
Method I have reviewed a great deal of news and information about weak night vision, and weak night strength and also busyness exist in most people's daily lives. Apart from the fact that most people have poor vision in the dark, some people have considerable difficulty in seeing at night or in poor light conditions, which ophthalmologists call night blindness. People with night blindness suffer from difficulty walking around the house at night, difficulty driving at night, not being able to avoid obstacles on the road at night very well and tripping over them, and difficulty recognising faces in dark environments. But it doesn't mean that you can't see at all at night, but rather that your vision becomes worse at night, so even a little bit of light that can illuminate the neighbourhood can be a great help to people who are night blind or have poor night vision. If you don't want to use an ITT night vision aid to minimise the cost, perhaps a small self-illuminating light that changes the brightness of the light according to the surroundings would help us in our lives.
The sudden rainfall in London is a big nuisance in life, and many times you can't react in time before you get caught in the sudden rain outside. The biggest problem in my life during my years in London is the weather. The average number of days of rainfall in London is 107 days per year, not including the number of times it rains, and sometimes it rains and clears up all of a sudden. From my personal experience, I've seen the weather forecast before I leave the house showing no rain for the whole day, but then halfway through the day it suddenly starts to rain for a period of time. But when I look at the weather in my mobile app it still shows no rain. Apple's own weather software often bothers me with this kind of error. I thought maybe I could use a humidity sensor to measure the weather conditions myself, and when the humidity of the air is close to the humidity of the rainfall, the device sends me a signal that it is about to rain. This would be more direct than opening my mobile phone to check the weather conditions.
With these considerations in mind, my theme for my device was thus confirmed; the device is to be used as an aid for everyday travelling. I am thinking more about the convenience of travelling for people with night vision impairment. I hope that the user can avoid a lot of trouble in life and not be excluded from going out through such a small wearable device.
2023.11
Introduction
I made a device about an everyday aid that people can use in their daily lives. The device combines a humidity sensor and an ambient light sensor, which advises the user about the weather and light conditions at their destination. When ambient light is detected and the surroundings become dark, LEDs can automatically adjust the lighting. The humidity monitor determines whether rain is imminent based on the air humidity to alert the user to take shelter in advance of rainfall. The device can be carried around the user's neck, like a headband-like device, as a semi-wearable device.
Background
A large part of the reason I undertook this project was because of my own problems: I have night blindness, which means that my eyesight deteriorates in relatively dark environments, and I am constantly in a state of insecurity and invisibility to the environment because I don't have a torch in my hand to carry things on my way home. Secondly, as I live in London, where the weather is often unpredictable and there is often a sudden downpour of rain on the road, giving no time to react, the rainfall warning can effectively avoid the problem of getting wet.
Method I have reviewed a great deal of news and information about weak night vision, and weak night strength and also busyness exist in most people's daily lives. Apart from the fact that most people have poor vision in the dark, some people have considerable difficulty in seeing at night or in poor light conditions, which ophthalmologists call night blindness. People with night blindness suffer from difficulty walking around the house at night, difficulty driving at night, not being able to avoid obstacles on the road at night very well and tripping over them, and difficulty recognising faces in dark environments. But it doesn't mean that you can't see at all at night, but rather that your vision becomes worse at night, so even a little bit of light that can illuminate the neighbourhood can be a great help to people who are night blind or have poor night vision. If you don't want to use an ITT night vision aid to minimise the cost, perhaps a small self-illuminating light that changes the brightness of the light according to the surroundings would help us in our lives.
The sudden rainfall in London is a big nuisance in life, and many times you can't react in time before you get caught in the sudden rain outside. The biggest problem in my life during my years in London is the weather. The average number of days of rainfall in London is 107 days per year, not including the number of times it rains, and sometimes it rains and clears up all of a sudden. From my personal experience, I've seen the weather forecast before I leave the house showing no rain for the whole day, but then halfway through the day it suddenly starts to rain for a period of time. But when I look at the weather in my mobile app it still shows no rain. Apple's own weather software often bothers me with this kind of error. I thought maybe I could use a humidity sensor to measure the weather conditions myself, and when the humidity of the air is close to the humidity of the rainfall, the device sends me a signal that it is about to rain. This would be more direct than opening my mobile phone to check the weather conditions.
With these considerations in mind, my theme for my device was thus confirmed; the device is to be used as an aid for everyday travelling. I am thinking more about the convenience of travelling for people with night vision impairment. I hope that the user can avoid a lot of trouble in life and not be excluded from going out through such a small wearable device.
