Physical interaction design DH2400

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Brief summary of the article.

Studies have been conducted on the senior center to find out what users need to both upright keeping social contacts, but also exercise regularly. The researchers came up with a social yoga mat.

When one user is active on the yoga mat the system automatically starts a video that provides yoga instruction. Meanwhile, your own avatar appears on the yoga tablet. The system then communicates with other team members to tell them that you are active. This as a way to get the other Group Members to practice yoga at the same time.

With the yoga tablet, you can also give applause, prizes and help tips to other users by pressing someone else's avatar on the tablet.

The product consists of three components:
• Pressure-sensitive yoga mat - with pressure-sensitive resistors connected to a Arduino board.
• Yoga tablet - android-based tablet that shows flash movies and is connected to the Internet.
• Server - the central database that communicates with the other components.

I found a link that describes the parts of the system: https://vimeo.com/16277514 (It is in Danish).

So far, this is a prototype that works to some extent. However required long-term evaluation to see how the product lives up to its goals.

11 september 2012 kl. 19:14  

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