I believe design is an expression of life, and every design outcome contains the designer's understanding of life.
Miss You
Interaction Design
Project Overview
Miss you is a kit that facilitates communication between grandparents and children, and it aims to provide a solution for the possibility of non-verbal communication. By using miss you, it helps users to reduce the emotional disconnection. It expresses emotions quickly through the transmission of simple images in variety colors, while providing the feeling of physical communication across space by simulating the sensation of temperature transfer when holding hands. Kit includes, 2 raspberry pi, 2 instructions, 2 pi cases designed for the elderly or the child respectively, scissors and non-woven fabric for the child's DIY possibilities.
Brand Idea
Grandparents and grandchildren that live apart often rely on communication technologies, such asmessengers, video conferencing, and phone calls for maintaining relationships. While some of these systems are challenging for grandparents, others are less engaging for children. To facilitate communication and helped bridge the technological gap between grandparents and grandchildren. Children communicated asynchronously in a playful and idiosyncratic manner, and grandparents shared past family memories. The concept starting from the question: How to provide more experiential communication between grandparents and children at a distance?
Tech Use
It is be a product based on Raspberry Pi, it will mainly use the Raspberry Pi sense hat, it will use its gyroscope, temperature detection and led function. Through the Pi to Pi information transmission to achieve the purpose of communication.
Product
For children's kit we provide colorful non-woven fabric, so that children can freely DIY to decide the color of the box appearance.At the same time they can use the non-woven fabric to cut different shapes for decoration.For the elderly, we offer light-transmitting acrylic boxes that can be placed on a tabletop for easy attention.
