week3 The idea of mine

Stress Indicator

It is design for the people who is under stress and want to try a new way to reduce their stress.

stress indicator, I want to people have a really new feeling bout use it. Like something different to reduce stress, which is more fun and more social use. I hope to find out what people feeling about the everyday stress, and do they want to reduce in a totally different way, like Chest Beating. Furthermore, I want to find out will it bring people fun when they use it. And also help the user to let the stress out in an easy way. During the prototype in future work, I will improve my idea, and improve the user experience.

When people are under too much stress, they may loss control of their own behaviors, the Stress Indicator can indicate how stressed user is, and let user reduce stress in a different social way with more fun. It can share on social media in as an interaction product.

Stress Indicator is a Wearable Social Interventions product. It works as a controller T-shirt with makey makey, which can control the gorilla in the computer. User need to Imitate the gorilla chest beating behaviors in the computer, and it will control the gorilla in the computer to following you move. When you beat your chest, gorilla in the computer beat its own chest. It can also share the chest beating speed on Facebook. This can indicate how stressed you are, and you can also get to know the stress of your friend.

I have choose the Wearable Social Interventions challenge to do my Video Prototype. Weird gestures happened everywhere, I wondering to do something that turns these weird gestures into a fun thing. In our daily life, stress is everywhere. When people stand in front of a group of people, and even when people are talking, may be they are under stress and they may not be able to talking about. An idea of a wearable Indicator can indicate the stress came out of my mind, which can also reduce the stress at same time. I named it “Stress Indicator”.