Concept: Romibo is a pet-like social robot designed for therapy, education and fun!
The Romibo Robot Project is a collaboration between robotics researchers and people like YOU in the user community. Together we are co-developing a therapeutic robot for children with physical and developmental disabilities. Romibo’s educational and fun features support robot therapy research while providing tandem value to the general public. Building Romibo and contributing your ideas and experiences will help to improve the lives of others.
Tags: assistive technology, build, collaboration, conceptualize, design, design research, developer, director, entrepreneur, inventor, social robotics
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Last Updated: 2012/01/15 3:05pm
Concept: This is a project I did on bushfire safety and prevention while studying abroad in Australia. While in use it's a huge life-saving reservoir for water to fight bush fires. However, when not in use it will roll to the size of a sleeping bag.
Tags: design, illustration, sustainability
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Last Updated: 2012/01/15 2:36pm
Concept: An interactive system utilizing online and personal electronic media to leverage virtual social networks to build a personalized system to educate and influence decisions related to energy consumption and the reduction of one’s ecological footprint.
Tags: design, ethnography, sustainability
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Last Updated: 2011/11/02 9:48am
Concept: Personal-Public Displays - a class of devices that presents actionable personal information not only to the user, but also to the public, including friends, family, colleagues, neighbors and even strangers. Six properties are outlined that we believe are important for such information displays to embody. These build on two well-established methods for inducing behavior change: presenting pertinent information at the point-of-decision and leveraging social influence. To investigate the effectiveness of our concept, we have chosen a popular, but challenging target: motivating physical activity. This led to the development of Pediluma, a shoe accessory that tracks and visualizes the wearer’s physical activity by varying the intensity of a lighted housing. Results from a two-week, seventeen-participant user study indicated people wearing our device significantly increased their physical activity.
Tags: build, collaboration, design, design research, graduate research, HCI, research
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Last Updated: 2012/01/15 2:38pm
Concept: A traveling walk-through specimen exhibit that collapses for shipping.
Tags: collaboration, design, prototyping
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Last Updated: 2012/01/15 2:37pm
Concept: A coffeepot that uses affective display to covey task status and state.
Tags: build, collaboration, conceptualize, design, research, social robotics
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Last Updated: 2012/01/15 2:48pm
Concept: Note: this project has now developed into Romibo. Please visit www.Romibo.org to learn more!
MEmote is an affective mobile robot designed to discover potential benefits to children with mental and physical disabilities. (The project is a preliminary exploration executed over the course of two weeks and will continue to be developed and researched).
Tags: build, collaboration, conceptualize, design, developer, director, inventor, research, researcher
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Last Updated: 2012/01/15 3:24pm
