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WoohoolMotu

June 2013

Camila mosso

s114682Coach: Jesse Asjes

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This report has been structured in a way of categorizing the activities realized during the whole process. The first Chapter will be destined to introduce the project and explain some general concepts related to it taken from the first part of the research. The second chapter will be destined to the user; a qualitative research will be described as well as a tactile and sight material test. The third chapter will work as a consequence of chapter one and two, in this chapter new ideas will be presented to explain the evolution of the concept and conclude with the final concept to develop. Chapter three will be destined to explain some materials and techniques explored. These activities while not being executed at the same stage of the pro-cess, were grouped together to give a general idea of the amount of explorations and its reasons to be discarded or selected during the process. The need of locating these explorations almost at the end of the document arises from the requirement of understanding the whole theoretical background before being able to comprehend the decisions made in material and techniques selection.

On chapter five, the development of the prototype will be described, and most of the shaping decisions will be shown in this section.

Finally, on chapter six, a new user test will be shown in the shape of a small qualitative research, where the concept was explained to people and they were asked about how they would use the product and how they felt with it.

struCture explanation

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Motu is one of the Woohool project. Wool became the material to work with and part of our work was to find a property which could be poten-tially interesting to develop an interactive product. Being a project fo-cused on interactivity, the decision of focusing in the user was evident. All long this process the user is take into account to guide the project into a user based product. Among with this, several explorations were made related with wool related techniques and the integration of other technologies. This experimentation allowed having a broad range of al-ternatives when choosing the best way of translating the concept into a physical prototype.

One of the main issues addressed during the research for this project refers to the relationship between our emotions and wool. Intuitively wool can be related with feelings such as comfort and safety. Starting from this idea a free association test around the concept of wool was set up. It became clear that others share these associations as well. In an experimental setup it was tested which characteristics make wool more appealing for either sight or touch. The materials varied from industrial textiles to hand made felt in different thickness.

After this evaluation the concept focused on the phenomenon which occurs when moving to a new environment. We often find a discrepan-cy between our expected and achieved social interaction. This discrep-ancy leads us to feel lonely even though we are not necessarily alone. It becomes necessary then to find the benefit in having time on your own to not fall in loneliness. The personal space can be a valuable moment of

meditation and introspection. This moment can be supported by creat-ing a comfortable and safe situation.

In object oriented meditation most of these objects are dynamic. Ob-serving how a candle changes gives enough information to our senses to keep focused. A candle and a landscape have this in common, both are everchanging and that is why they stay fascinating. In line with that Motu keeps changing when being touched.

As a result, Motu is made as a cuddling object which invites for a mo-ment of meditation. The shape of Motu is meant to be embraced by the body and explored by your hands while your sight is absorbed by pat-terns continuously changing. This experience will allow the user to focus their senses in some external element, and at the same time allow your thoughts to flow.

intro

Chapter 1: starting

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Visits

Chapter one: starting

textile museum tilburg

Textile Museum is located at the city of Tilburg which is known for being the wool capital of Netherlands. The museum offers an historical view of the textile production in Tilburg and also offers a Textile lab for design, production and development of textile as a material.

While visiting the museum it was possible to appreciate old techniques as well as new techniques which integrated new technologies to wear-ables. Visual and tactile textures were the elements which called more attention. These elements, closely related with our senses, gave a first idea of the direction in which the research would be oriented subse-quently.

As part of the field research two main visits were made. The visits pro-vided a first idea of textile techniques and specifically wool. These were a main source of inspiration to define the direction of the project by pro-viding the necessary contact with the material to relate it with personal experiences.

herders Van baloo

Herders van Balloo is an atelier which produces and processes its own wool, specifically from the Dutch Drents heideschaap, a kind of sheep which is originally from West-Europe.

Two workshops were held, carding and spinning, and felting. The con-tact with the material provided a first impression of what is to be in close contact with it. When being surrounded by this amount of wool. The first impressions about how wool can be an emotional trigger were put in mind.

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Woohoolherders Van baloo textile museum tilburg

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Imagine having the height of a table, and then you enter to a big storage room full of big shelves and on each of them you can see a huge amount of fabric rolls piled on top of each other. Now imagine the smell of new clothes, textile paint and touching all these textures. Weaved, knitted, printed and dyed, endless colors. Then you see from one side of the table a skillful man cutting a piece of it. This room is a playground and a place which allowed me to spend time with my mother while she was buying fabrics for her sister which owns a touristic clothing company.

These experiences I had with fabrics, I had them with wool as well. See-ing my grandma knitting was, and it is still now, something quite usual.

This story is told to give an impression about the possible feelings related with wool. A way of categorizing how we process emotions is explained by Donald Norman in his book Emotional Design (2004). Visceral, Behav-ioral and Reflective are three ways of processing emotions. The best way of explaining these three levels is through an example:

Take for example a piece of design, such as a chair. A visceral emotion would be the first impression we have from it. Is it nice? Does it look comfortable? Then a behavioral emotion would be related with the use of the chair and how is the performance of its usability for example. And finally the reflective emotion would be related with what it reminds us, maybe we have already used a chair that looks like this one, or our grandpa used to sit on a similar chair, all these memories and maybe opinions will be reflected on a reflective emotion.

In summary:

Visceral is related with our first impression

Behavioral is related with usability and our interaction with the object of design

Reflective is related with our previous experiences and our relationships with the design.

In the story told at the beginning of this chapter you can see how the experience influences our way of feeling certain emotions

Wool and emotions

Chapter one: starting

touCh as an emotional sense

As observed by many studies, touch is a sense related with emotions and attachment, this is clearly said when stating

“Touch, skin, attachment and development are positively inter-linked”1

This statement is related with the development in early life, but it can also be extended to adults. Many experiences in our lives have a tac-tile element. It is not necessarily related with a single object that we are touching and seeing at the same time, it could also be related with observing some situation and touching some element in that circum-stance. An example given at the book Touch in Museums (2008)

“(…) a colleague, Bruce Hood in Bristol, has reported a nice example from his lectures on people’s mystical beliefs where he describes handing a sweater to the audience when he gives a talk (personal communication, 9 November 2007). When he asks the audience how much they like to touch the sweater, people typically sat that it feels fairly nice. But

1 M. Raluca Popa & P. A. Best (2010): Making sense of touch in dance movement therapy: A trainee's perspective, Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy: An International Journal for Theory, Research and Practice, 5:1, 31-44, doi: 10.1080/17432970903545941

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then when he tells the audience that the sweater once belonged to Fred West, the infa-mous serial killer (…) educated audiences will immediately discard the object, with some

even refusing to touch it)”

This is an example about how people are influenced from a reflective to a visceral reaction specifically talking about a tactile experience. In the following chapters these elements will be tested and it will be possible to appreciate emotional processing from Reflective to Visceral and vice versa.

Wool and emotions

Chapter one: starting

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A free association test was held with the goal of identify general param-eters that could help to determine the variables for a user test which will include the test of different wool samples of diverse techniques.

The questions made where

1. Which emotions come to your mind when you read/hear the word “Wool”?

2. Can you explain in general why this word reminds you these emo-tions?

Question 1. For the first question several characteristics were mentioned, these ones were related with emotions and characteristics that wool can have. These adjectives were grouped by a relation to each other and categorized by its relationship with a positive, neutral or neg-ative feeling.

After doing this, the answers were presented by the amount of times mentioned with the intention of have an overview of the relations with wool. The goal is to determine/confirm if wool is mostly related with positive or negative feelings.

results Question 1

The main results were related with the neutral feelings of warmth and softness; the main emotions were related with Coziness, Happiness, re-laxation and feeling safe.

Free assoCiation test

Chapter tWo: the user

By + or - Value+ Happiness Content Fun 10

excitement amazement 2

Friendly 1 Love 4 Trust 1

Care safe 7 Gentle sweet 2 Cozy Comfort Pleasant gezellig 17 Relax Calm Peaceful 8

1 chic 1 Family Together 2

+ 6 Cuddly 3 Warm 18

Fuzzy 4 Neutral Old Fashion 3

Natural 1 1

Winter 1

prickly Ticklish itchy 4 -

Creepy 1

sadness 3 Discomfort irritated annoyed 4

- Impotence 1

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visceral (visual reaction) are influenced by wool. However, what can be rescued from this free association test are the first impressions of wool. These emotions will be taken in consideration when designing the new Material Test.

For more information about this test see Appendix 1.

As a guide for reference, a moodboard was made (see Link) inspired by these emotions. With this in mind, the process could go further without forgetting the sensation that the final product should have.

Free assoCiation test

Chapter tWo: the user

Question 2.Question 2. The second part was intended to find out why people have these feelings and how these can be related with the three previously mentioned levels of perception of emotions Reflective, Behavioral and Visceral.

result Question 2

• 26answerswereidentifiedasReflectiveprocessing

• 18wererelatedwithBehavioral

• 2wererelatedwithVisceral

These results show how conscious were the answers provided by the subjects, a Reflective processing is related with experiences, opinions and memories; Behavioral is related with the body interaction with the material, and how people experience it; and Visceral is our first impres-sion of what we see.

A reason for obtaining these results could be related with the procedure applied, the question was made with no reference (Tactile or Visual) and for this reason the subjects needed to rely on their memories and previ-ous experiences.

general ConClusions:

Since these impressions were obtained without any reference, a mate-rial test is needed to check how behavioral (material interaction) and

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A list of emotions generated by wool was obtained from the previous free association test. These ones will be evaluated for each sample and finally get the relation between these ones and general characteristics of wool 3.

This test is focused on the touch sense. However, the subject will have to evaluate the samples blindfolded and sighted, always evaluating from a touch perspective (the characteristics to evaluate are related with touch and not necessarily with sight). Is preferable to evaluate both senses sep-arately to clearly see how the subjects are influenced by them in terms of perception of their emotions.

For the first part of the test, the subject was be blindfolded. This is to avoid the influence of sight in their feelings.

The user had freedom to manipulate the samples, with some recom-mendations of the standard way of manipulate the fabric

For the emotional section, the subject was be completely free of ma-nipulating the sample, this is to get an idea of how people react when being asked of evaluate certain emotions.

The second part of the test was sighted. The subject was be told that he/she is going to evaluate new samples; this is to avoid him/her of trying to recognize the samples previously tested. The subject was not able of touching the samples. Same questions as before will be made.

Lists of samples:

1. Thick Handmade Felt

2. Thin Handmade Felt

3. Industrial Felt 3mm

4. Thin Mixed Felt: Mix of viscose and wool

5. Thick Mixed Felt

6. Jersey

7. Thin woven fabric

8. Thick brown woven Fabric

9. Thick Woven Fabric/Felted

An adjective was taken as a clear characteristic if the total points was more than the half of a hypothetical 100% positive answers (all 10 points). It had more than 50% of positive answers4 and it would have no disagrees (i.e. 4 or less points per answer). Finally, the sample with the more clear characteristics would be the adequate for each sense.

The results gave that the samples 1 and 9 were the best for sight and sample number 4 was the best for touch.

Along with the data analysis, some observations were made regarding the way the subjects manipulated the samples while testing them.

It is possible to appreciate how people tend to wrap the samples around their hands while being asked about the emotional aspects of the de-

material test

Chapter tWo: the user

3 L. Bacci, F. Camilli, S. Drago, M. Magli, E. Vagnoni, A. Mauro, & S. Predier (2012): Sensory evaluation and instrumental

measurements to determine tactile properties of wool fabrics, Textile Research Journal, 82(14) 1430–1441, doi: 10.1177/0040517512438125

4 An answer would be considered as positive if is bigger than 5 (1 to 4 = disagreement, 5=Indiferent, 6 to 10=agreement)

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Chapter tWo: the usermaterial test

scription.

Another common observation is related with the interaction with the surface where the samples were placed, people tend to use it as a base for the evaluation of certain characteristics.

People felt different when touching with their hands than touching with their faces. The comments made by the subjects suggested that the con-tact with the face allowed them to feel more itchiness from the material; this effect was perceived as not really good to facilitate the feeling of positive characteristics.

To conclude, wool has the potential to be an emotional trigger element due to the relationship with some reflective and also the possibility of experiment it through a visceral emotion perception. Memories and tex-ture can provide a rich tactile experience.

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samples

Chapter tWo: the user

1. Thick Handmade Felt2. Thin Handmade Felt3. Industrial Felt 3mm4. Thin Mixed Felt: Mix of viscose and wool5. Thick Mixed Felt6. Jersey7. Thin woven fabric8. Thick brown woven Fabric9. Thick Woven Fabric/Felted

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As part of the development of the concept, several graphic pieces were developed. The reason to present them almost as raw material is due to the value I found in doing this part of the research “by hand”.

Along with these graphic research, a set of references were grouped in form of a pinterest board which can be checked in this LINK

Chapter three: ConCept

loneliness - introspeCtion - meditation By doing this research it was possible to conclude that Loneliness is not the same as Solitude. Solitude can be a positive experience. When think-ing about some activities that are considered positive and we can do while we are alone, meditation came to mind.

meditation tools

One aspect of meditation that seemed interesting was the idea of focus-ing your thoughts in only one thing for a period of time. Reading some blogs and personal experiences of people who meditate and specially those who are starting on meditation the information pointed to object oriented meditation. The objects used where related to sound, touch and sight. Among these last two, tools a mala and a candle where the ones that called attention. The first of these, the mala, is a tool used by used by Hindus and Buddhists as a way of counting while meditative re-peating a mantra. This tool can also be related with the Komboloi (from Greece) which is used with no religious or spiritual purposes but mainly to release stress.

The main characteristic of a candle when meditating is its ability of changing in a constant way. This is to say, the shapes we see are mainly the same, but there are some details which allow us to say that there is a change in the flame. This is easily related when looking a landscape, which give us a peaceful feeling. A landscape is everchanging but in a detailed level. The threes don’t change position, the leaves are there, but they are constantly moving in a small level.

Using these examples as reference the approach of the product would be to use sight and touch to give the user a tool which facilitates intro-spection.

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First “hand made” researCh

Chaper three: the ConCept

L O N E L I N E S S I N T R O N S P E C T I O NFeeling

Transform inSomething Positive Trough Solitude

Loneliness:Discrepancy between one’s desired and achieved levels of Social Interaction

Loneliness v/s SolitudeLoneliness is not necesarilly a consequence of solitude

Solitude can be a Positive Experience

Growth of: · Selfsteem · Selfconfidence · Selfeficacy Sense · Identity Development · Creativity

SUBJECTIVE

Due to the Lack of externalJudgement

· 20% of the population in USA feels lonely

* Individualism leads to spend time alone and less sharing?

* Learn how to be alone can help us to feel less lonely

* Loneliness might be usual in expats, this can be related with Nostalgia or Homesickness

HOMEfamily + Friends

(stablished Network)

NEW ENVIRONMENTNo Network

Solitude + Loneliness

Passing from a known environtment with a stablished network to a new environment with no network at all

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1

1. Peplau, L.A. & Perlman, D. (1982). Perspectives on loneliness. In L. A. Peplau & D. Perlman (Eds.), Loneliness: A sourcebook of current theory, research and therapy. (pp. 1-18). New York: John Wiley and Sons.2. Suedfeld, P. (1982). Aloneness as a healing experience. In L. A. Peplau and D. Perlman (Eds.), Loneliness, Chichester: Wiley.

* People might need help understandig the value of being alone.

*Recomforting in a way that people understand this value and NOT to stimulate this loneliness feeling* Transform a Negative Feeling in something Positive

HOW?*Will a safety feeling help to feel less lonely?

*Which activity is practiced alone and helps you grow?

*MEDITATION is often practiced alone. It makes you improve your selfsteem, etc

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seCond “hand made“ researCh

Chaper three: the ConCept

I N T R O S P E C T I O N M E D I TAT I O N

* Using meditation resources might help distracting from negative feelings

“The idea behind meditation is to consciously relax your body and focus your thoughts on one thing for a sustained period. This occupies your mind, diverting it from the problems that are couseng your stress.It gives your body time to relax and recuperate, and to clear away stress hormones that may have built up”

To Distract: “I found that using tones or music helped get me into a meditative state more easily”

“I use a candle, and sometimes use kum kum (red dot) for my third eye, and just stare at it in the mirror”

“Focussing on one word and refocussing on the word every time you drift off into your toughts”

Make an object interesting for enough time?

Use a detail that changes all the time? (for long time)

“Focusing on an Object:

Here, you completely focus attention on Examination of an object. Look at it in immense detail for the entire meditatio. Examine the shape, color differences, texture, temperature and movement of the object.”

www.collective-evolution.com/topic/do-you-use-meditation-tools/

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditative_postures

www.mindtools.com/stress/RelaxationTechniques/meditation.htm/

www.mindtools.com/stress/RelaxationTechniques/meditation.htm/

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“Meditation can also be practiced while walking, such as kinhin, or doing simple repetitive tasks”SAMU: “Physical work that is done with mindfulness as a simple practical and spiritual practice”

A “mala” is used also with meditation purposes

G r e e k Komboloi: Used

to release stress

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These explorations are called open because they don’t intend to explore any specific technique. These activities were part of the organization of the project or workshops which were realized by students at the TU/e

open explorations

Chapter Four: materials and teChniQues explored

pressure Cooker

During the pressure cooker we worked with several techniques such as needle felting and embroidering. The free way of working allowed me to experiment with the material and think about the way I would like to continue with the project. The fabric wool samples that were used dur-ing the pressure cooker were also used afterwards for the material test described previously

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For the smart textiles workshop my main focus was on integrating elec-tronics to wool samples. This was achieved in three ways: first needle felting curled piece of wire, by curling the wire it can’t move when felted since is fixed in the curled sections by the wool. Second, the wire was wrapped with a wool thread using a macramé technique; this would al-low fixing a straight piece of wire to a wool fabric using needle felting. The third sample was an experiment with conductive wool, it was inter-esting to see how it can be used as a pressure sensor as well.

smart textiles Workshop

Chapter Four: materials and teChniQues explored

Needle felted curled wire Macrame + needle felting

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smart textiles Workshop

Chapter Four: materials and teChniQues explored

without and with energy

needle felted conductive wool conected to a LED, + and - signs are indicators where to connect the cables Different brightness when pressing wool to make electric contact

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speCiFiC materials and teChniQues explorations

Chapter Four: materials and teChniQues explored

CroChet

This was a simple exploration to understand wool as a yarn. Crochet is a technique which offers several 2D and 3D textures. It was discarded as a technique due to the need of having wool at its most basic structure to being able of evaluating it later on the material tests.

light

Some experiments were made to see the effect of color light on wool. The initial idea was to relate touch with sight. Controlled light tends to be too unnatural when not filtered, these explorations lead me to work with reflected light (colors) instead of emitted light (light bulbs, LEDs, etc…) due to the subtle effect they provide when changing.

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speCiFiC materials and teChniQues explorations

Chapter Four: materials and teChniQues explored

nitinol

Nitinol is a metal alloy of nickel and Titanium. This alloy has the particu-larity of changing to a “programmed”5 shape when being exposed to a certain temperature. It was considered because of its ability of enhanc-ing a tactile experience, but the smell interfered with the experience and it was too weak to applying hand pressure to it.

5The programming is made by exposing the metal to high temperatures as seen on top left The pictures below show the change of a nitinol spring when current is applied, and by consequence heated up

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speCiFiC materials and teChniQues explorations

Chapter Four: materials and teChniQues explored

thermoCromiC ink Thermocromic paints are those which change color due to a change in temperature. This effect, due to the lack of control over the heat when warming a certain area, gives an effect which can be related with breath-ing or some other natural movement or change. That’s why this was the main visual element selected for the final prototype.

Soaking half of the felt in paint would facilitate the colour change due to the amount of paint to be heated

placing wire under the felt

wire through felt heating up wire through felt

1. Top: Blue Thermocromic ink on Jersey Bottom: Red dyed Jersey then it was painted with blue thermocromic ink.

2. Top: Half soaked sample 9 (thick weaved and felted) in thermocromic ink Bottom: Fully soaked sample 9 in thermocro-mic ink. The paint tends to go through the textile when fully soaked

3. Left: red dyed thick felt fully soaked in thermochromic ink. Middle: Half dyed thick felt and painted with pink thermo-cromic ink to check the color differences when having a background color. Right: Thick Felt fully soaked in thermocromic ink

4. Red Cotton painted with blue thermocromic ink

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shaping

Chapter FiVe: prototype

The first ideas were oriented to kind of blanket you could adapt as you wanted; this was inspired by the blanked some kids use to sleep. Since it was too open for the concept the direction changed.

Next iteration was in the direction of a habitat, inspired by those ref-ugees kids build with sheets in their rooms. An inspiration for giving comfort and safety was the use of the gesture when hugging (since we release dopamine and serotonin when doing it) the shape went in the direction of a cuddling object. When asking people (mostly expats) the general opinion was that having an object which imitates a hug literally would be even sadder due to remembering the person(s) we are miss-ing.

That’s why the shape evolved into a ball, remembering a teddy bear, and taking the body as a reference for making it more comfortable for cuddling. The final shape was modeled in Rhinoceros to being able of printing accurate patterns which can be modified afterwards.

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shaping

Chapter FiVe: prototype

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Final shape and use proposal

Chapter FiVe: prototype

INTERACTION:The object will react to your touch in a visual way by showing random patterns on the reaction surface.This reaction won’t depend on the pressure or place where you touch but whether you TOUCH IT OR NOT

USER TEST:some decisions were taken to make a relation with the way people evaluated the material during the user test.

Pockets: Wrapping around their hands and when they evaluated thickness.

Firm surface: To compare it when people touched the material against a table.

Soft Foam Base: When testing the prototipe, flexibility on the bottom was important to being able to adapt to several positions of the user.

Like it was experienced during the user test to keep a “separated” experience from each material, the shape avoids the

user to see the touch material.

GEOMETRIC SHAPE: A contrast between Natural (Felt) and artificial. The shape gives also an interesting tactile experience

PATTERNS: Inspired by MANDALASThe pattern variation comes from when we look to a landscape or a candle. These are everchanging and is because of this that we can fix our attention on them for a long time.The little control given to the user comes from the same source of inspiration. When we look to a landscape we don’t have control over it. The only options we have are whether to look at it or not.

REACTION: Sight

ACTION: Touch

Visu

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Tact

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As part of the Action Element, a sensor had to be applied. As a first at-tempt a soft button was designed. The button consisted in the use of foam with a hole in the middle and adding conductive wool on each side of the hole. A sort of net avoided wool of making contact without applying pressure. This button could work as a pressure sensor.

Due to the need of an on/off reaction, there was no need of a pressure sensor since a contact sensor would be enough to do this job.

A capacitive sensor made of aluminum was tested first under the touch element (thin mixed felt) but it was not enough to detect the presence or not of the hand, that’s why a mix of wool and conductive thread was placed in the shape of lines highlighting the edges of the shape. This worked to not lose the geometric structure due to the soft material.

sensors

Chapter FiVe: prototype

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Felt + thermoCromiC ink + heating elements

Chapter FiVe: prototype

As mentioned before during the user test two materials were selected for the visual material: Thick Felt and Thick weaved fabric. When doing some explorations with thermocromic ink the best material for using heating wires was Thick felt. The heating elements used were resistance wires; whit these ones the use of energy would be minimum while heat-ing more than regular wires.

As explained before, Mandalas were taken as inspiration for the patterns showed by the prototype. These are sand figures which are often drawn as meditation tools. The shapes are mostly geometric organized around a center. Usually after finishing a mandala (which can take weeks) the sand is removed and the mandala is gone.

It can also be painted and when doing this the shape should be colored from inside to outside.

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Transistors had to be used since the need of producing a short-circuit in order to heat the wires and to control the amount of voltage going through the Arduino. These were connected as shown in the pictures.

As a final decision the program showed the patterns appearing from the center to outside, this to avoid wires overheating when using the random tool of Arduino (the “random” numbers would repeat too often) but at the end this was not a problem since the material itself gives a natural effect due to the lack of control over the heating area.

The transistors had to be connected to a cooling surface to avod over-heating.

arduino + eleCtroniCs

Chapter FiVe: prototype

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A simple user test was made during the final exhibition. The idea was to ask people whether they would use the product or not, and to see how they interacted with it.

About the place where they would use it, most of the people agreed on using it at home, some few said they would like to have it for a crowded environment since “it makes everything else peripheral”

Other observation was about the way Motu interacts with you. It would be a possibility to try to make it interact with your breathing, maybe this would make focusing even easier.

Some people didn’t know how to handle Motu, many tried to interact with it by trying to touch the pink visual element on it. This is a good sign in a certain way because is an element which calls attention, maybe the colors should be studied to make it less button-like.

Appart from those points, when understanding the use of it people adapted really easily and started interacting with Motu.

Chapter six:“it Feels like a teddy bear”

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This was a project in which I learned to trust myself and my ideas. Start-ing from the point of being spired by a really personal story, and follow-ing my intuition without forgetting the research as an important part of my process.

I used new tools such as Evernote for research, in which I could group what I read and see on the web by categorizing. I started using Pinter-est, which was a tool for keeping my ideas in a visual medium. And I also continued using my physical folders for the beginning of the pro-cess, whit these I can have a general idea of what the project is going to be. All these tools allowed me to understand that I don’t have a lack of ideas, but a really disorganized head which can be organized by using some simple implements.

My agenda was also much more organized than previous semesters since I was forcing myself to take decisions. Not everything was exactly as I planned but the general plan helped me to have an overview of what had to be done.

Using my intuition as part of the inspiration came from the contact I had with wool since I was a child, and I felt I was able of transmit this feeling in a simple object in which almost everything can be explained as part of my research.

Without noticing I applied one of my main interests which is my cul-tural awareness. Moving from one country to another makes you realize about the need of having design which can communicate with different

cultures. But also design which can solve and integrate cultural prob-lems.

trust my intuition

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