Oct 02
For my feedback loop project, I’d like to present “snarkicity: saving your money and the earth one mildly abusive comment at a time.” The idea is that people aren’t aware enough of how they’re spending their money on electricity at any given time. To remedy this issue, snarkicity would gather your electricity usage data and display …
Oct 02
My feedback loop focuses on the idea of personalizing aerobic workouts for intense exercisers by measuring your metabolic changes as you work out. This idea is based on biosensor prototypes created by the Wang lab group from UCSD. Read about their research here. Secretions from sweat as you exercise …
Oct 02
‘The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces’ and ‘Cultural Probes’ The first thing I will note about these articles is the futility of researching and attempting to classify the Human Experience because of its amorphous and temporary nature. Not only do we all have our own tendencies and predispositions, these change as our lives …
Oct 02
Cultural Probes I like the method that they used for observing elderly people’s environment. They considered a lot of part of elderly people in various aspects and tried to be objective such as cultural differences, age gap, etc. Especially, I like the way they get information from elderly people. They didn’t ask a specific question …
Oct 02
I often forget that the entire world is designed. It may be a lack of reflection or observation, but I have to be reminded that public spaces don’t just sprout up completely formed. For that reason, I really enjoyed The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. I was intrigued by their research process and seemingly bottomless …
Oct 01
1) Culture Probes In the passage of Culture Probes, the author talked about a some experimental urban strategy to evoke some suggestive response from elderly people. The way that project to execute really provided some inspiration to me to observe people’s behavior and helps me a new way to finding the real essence meaning behind …
Oct 01
1. “The Social Life of Urban Spaces” -William Whyte This article highlights the importance of research when designing public spaces in urban environments. Research of how the public spaces are intended to be used and on the intended users themselves. Whyte mentions, for example, that men and women interact with their environments differently. That women …
Oct 01
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces It’s interesting to read about a perspective of NYC from 1970 and think about what changes (or not) may have occurred since. This research team focused heavily on young professionals and their habits around their office buildings during lunch breaks. Their observation that crowded spaces were traced to …
Sep 30
My idea for Feedback Loop is from checking your sleeping (health) condition. Usually, we don’t know our behavior while we are sleeping, so it is hard to change our sleeping behaviors. Specifically, snoring is one of the sleeping behaviors that is not considered as a problem, but it also can be a serious problem if …
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