How can we maintain and build relationships from afar? Students studying abroad - aging parents in retirement homes - best friends living on different sides of the country - brothers and sisters separated for the first time in 18 years. With our schedules getting busier and busier and our lives being completely consumed by the present, it’s important to take the time to let them know that we love them and think about them. How do we enable this to be easier? How can we passively remind users to check in?
This project investigates the interplay between a set of “smart” dinosaurs, embedded with EDA sensing, and a mobile device communicating via WiFi. When one person touches the dinosaur, the other dinosaur lights up, letting the person at the other end know that their friend is thinking about them.
Date: December 2015
Course: CS6452 Prototyping Interactive Systems
Skills: Android Dev, Physical Prototyping, NodeJS, Socket.io, Teensyduino