Here's to the ones who dream, foolish as they may seem. Here's to the hearts that break. Here's to the mess we make. La La Land(2016)
About me
“I’m a caring designer, a life enthusiast, a passionate knowledge seeker and a writer.” I care about people, and I love making friends with different types. I am being called a friendly person, very often. As for me, getting to know a person's life story, thoughts and behaviors is an exciting task. Only when I truly understand and touch the very bottom of a person's heart can I design a good thing for him, this is what I believe.
Diverge
Abstract thinking
Measure
data & insight
Skills Adobe Ai/Ps/Id Solidworks/Creo SketchUp/Unity/Unreal Engine TOEIC 935 HTML/CSS
Experience an overview Work
Education
School Activities
National Cheng Kung University, Industrial Design, BA
Circular NCKU club Designer and Executer
Sep,2015-present
Feb,2016-Sep,2017
Acer Taiwan Summer Internship Design Innovation Intern
National Cheng Kung University, Teacher Education Program
NCKU ID Freshman Camp Event General Coordinator
NCKU ID CXB Design Lab Designer and Researcher
Sep,2017-present
National Pingtung Girl’s Senior High School 2012-2015
Nov,2016-Oct,2017
Workshop of Emotional Design Course Planning Specialist Jun,2017-Feb2018
Jul-Aug,2018
Nov,2017-Jul,2018
Contents
Thesis Project JUMPlay
COLOVE about HCI
AIKO
acer internship
Thesis Project 2019
Co-living Slippers are composed by smart slippers, a charging board, and the App. Inside the slipper is the sensor insole, which conducts gait analysis and records life trace at home. Through the App, users are enabled to instantly acquire health and living information with ease.
Design Research Build with Empathy Being roommates, the elderly could constantly immerse in social vitality, and the youth could be lighten their massive rental burden. They could feel the warmth of home during co-living, and eventually become unrelated families. Originated in Europe Cross-generational co-living was first originated in the Netherlands as an effective method against problems derived from aged society. Later Germany and Japan imitated this new living pattern and developed their own different style. It is still considered a very novel living pattern since it has only be runned for 5 years. Does it fit in Taiwan? Cross-generational Co-living Cross-generational co-living is a new living pattern that deals with aged society. Through making young and old generation roommates, cross-generational communication and resource sharing are expected to be achieved.
Taiwan is facing the crisis of aging society as well. However, the software and hardware of Taiwan’s are distinct from those of the mentioned countries’. Plus, the society is still unfamiliar with the concept of crossgenerational co-living. We need to figure out how to transplant this prevailing living pattern to Taiwan.
Cross-generational co-living in Taiwan
Cooperation with 9floor 9floor is a space management team who is committed to create co-living lifestyle for Taiwan. They gather those in need and build them residences, in which people feel like home staying.
Among numerous co-living plan, 9floor also tried to implement the concept of cross-generational co-living in Taiwan. They have been recognized by New Taipei City Government, cooperated with Urban and Rural Bureau, and carried out the very first experimental plan of cross-generational co-living in Taiwan in Long En Social Housing. During the experiment, 9floor’s purpose was to find out the operating mode that fit Taiwan the most. By combining with Taiwanese culture and living habit, they can make a foreign living system more appropriate for Taiwan’s local condition.
Observations during the stay
We were fortunate to meet one of the co-founders of 9floor, Jerry Wang, in a workshop called Design for Taiwan, which was held by Flytech. After discussing with Jerry, we determined our collaborative mode, where we took 9floor as our design client. We entered 9floor to interact with the organizer and residents, and obtained further understanding toward the field. We even signed a contract with 9floor and Urban and Rural Bureau of New Taipei City, allowed to live in one of the 9floor residences based on our project.
Poor health management toward the elderly We shared the apartment with a youngster and an elder. After interacted with them respectively, we realized that since the space was reconstructed from social housing, it now lacks protective systems on both software and hardware aspects. For the elderly, they need a more complete health management system while being unconscious on their own vulnerable health. For their family dependent, they are concerned about aged people living in unfamiliar environment and exposed in danger without people offering immediate aid. In addition, for the young roommates, they also worry about being liable but unhelpful at the same time when the elders encounter an emergency. Unestablished living mode 9floor’s original intention of holding cross-generational co-living is that through analyzing the different routine, interactions, and living details between the residents, they can adjust existing software and hardware and make it more suitable for Taiwanese to live in. As a result, collecting more data about the residents’ living situation would empower 9floor to know the residents’ need better while planning living space, assigning roommates, and holding events.
Design Goal After understanding the residents’ view deeper, we found out what they expected was a natural living environment built without specific purpose. We considered that the way 9floor establishes household health system should make the residents feel comfortable and relieved. As slippers play an essential role for household lives, we made the most usual product the medium of health management and life record.
Smart Slippers As a wearable device that blends into daily lives naturally, the product has the same appearance of regular slippers. It changes people’s stereotype toward smart products. And it is also available for customized color choices.
Gait Analysis G a i t a n a l ys i s syste m a t i c a l l y measures, describes, and evaluates the parameter involved in human action. Everyone has different walking habits. The walking posture influences the m e c h a n i ca l s i t u at i o n o f o u r lower limbs when walking. Based on biomechanics, we use the sensors in the sole to measure the force distribution while walking, conduct gait analysis after transferring which into visible scientific data. Via comparing personal data with Big Data, the product can help diagnose hipknee-ankle-foot diseases, frailty, neurodegenerative diseases, and so on.
Circuit Board
Battery
Pressure Sensor
Coil Normal Normal
Abnormal
Linkit board
Wireless Charging Board The charging board provides three charging seats based on the defined scenario of three bedrooms and two living rooms. The slippers would be charged once they are put on the board, and the charging could be stopped by simply moving the slippers away. Slippers
WIFI
Charging Board (HOST)
WIFI
App
8051(MCS-51)
Coil
Current Location Total Time of Stay
Details
Bluetooth Sensor The Bluetooth Sensor would be installed in every room of the house. It is used for locating the user’s location and the time spent in the specific room.
Weekly Record
COLOVE a companion robot for elders who are not familiar with digital devices to send their greetings to their children
A cooperative project with the engineering department students. It was a 3 months project. There are 2 designers, 5 engineers. The expected outcome of this project is to build a humancentered designed companion robot, and is capable to work.
problem As children grow up, most of them find jobs or get married in another place. For someone, they seldom go back and visit their parent. Their parents contact them mostly via phone. However, they are sometimes too busy to spare some time to chat with their parents. This leads to a result that both sides are not satisfied with the way they interact.
"I miss my son,however, he's too busy and can't come home. I can only call him, but sometimes he is not available." "Mom called again...I was just in a meeting, and so I can not answer the phone for too long...I feel bad when I'm always the one to have to hang up on her. "
Nancy AGE RESIDENCE STATUS OCCUPATION FAMILY
Goals
Felix AGE RESIDENCE OCCUPATION FAMILY
68 yrs old Yunlin Live alone Housewife 1 Son
to have a better quality conversation to say everything she wants to say to know Felix is also happy to talk to her
Motivation
wants to get in touch with her son, without interrupting his life
Frustration
every time she calls Felix, Felix is at work or is busy dealing with other businesses, so Felix is always in a hurry of closing the conversation.
40 yrs old Taipei City Office Worker Wife & 1 Daughter
Goals
to have a better quality conversation to feel happy to talk to Nancy to know he is able to care for Nancy and also capable of maintaining his own life
Motivation
wants to care about his mom's life, without disturbing his schedules and plans
Frustration
every time Nancy calls, he is not able to talk too much and often speaks in a hurried tone. However, when he finally has time to chat, Nancy is already asleep.
user journey map
for Nancy and Felix, they are not be able to interact with each other on the right time
Nancy
10:00 am
3:00 pm
Nancy calls her son to tell him something exciting happened in the village
Nancy calls her son to tell him about the news on TV about the car auction he's always wanted to go.
Felix is in a meeting when Nancy calls, and he hangs up the phone
Felix
9:00 pm
Felix is busy dealing with his clients and has no time to pick up the phone.
10:00 pm
Nancy goes to bed
Felix remembers his mother calling today and calls back, but has no reply.
solutions -design a new communicational process for Nancy and Felix, they couldn't get in touch with each other whenever they want. So we want to break the time barrier. -design to fit in wth their lives we try to figure out a way to not disturb their original life style. Also, we want our design to be familiar to our users and simple to use.
features for Nancy and Felix, they are familiar with different way of communication. Nancy is not familiar with digital devices while Felix is always using digital devices.
We decided to design a mailbox for Nancy to send her written messages, and the form of the mailbox would fit perfectly to her house decoration. (below)
The elder write something on the paper, and toss it into the mailbox.
The letter will be scanned and send to their children’s email inbox. The children could respond the letter via typing.
The mailbox would print out the respond of the children for the elder to read.
OCR text recognition Write the name Name space
OCR on linux Read the text Search the database
email address
sentďź
internship project As the company begins to lay the target on the younger generation, Acer Design Studio(ADS) is coming up some ideas. This is a summer internship program for 2 months. My task in the program is to create a new product for young generations. I practiced the design thinking process, and for my final presentation I came up with two designs.
persona
HMW brainstorming
Social Lover
Social Loner
After we focus on two persona, we begin to create How Might We questions.
outgoing
keep a low profile
How might we design a digital product for a social lover?
like to be the center
don't really need attention
How might we design a product for young generations to reduce stress?
enjoy alone time
How might we create a product for social lovers to express their feelings?
love social activities
concepts user testing
Collecting ideas from the HMW process, we begin to come up with many concepts. From the top-left to the down-right are: social bracelet, noise free mask,"bounce it" radio and "squeeze it" powerbank. We do the user testing and decide to focus on social bracelet and "squeeze it" powerbank.
social bracelet Add friends to your social networks simple and fun! with a simple connection with other's bracelet, the two can easily add friends. (confirmation is not included)
FRIENDS /社交
SHARE /分享
CONNECT
MULTI/多功能
Display the wearers' emotions. "I'm going to a party!"
Remind the wearer of notifications No missing texts or phone calls
every bead on the bracelet represents a kind of social media, e.g. Facebook. This fulfills young generation's need to meet new people with a simple step.
squeeze-it
PERSONAL /個人的
ALONE /獨處
RELAX /紓壓
it is a powerbank which can be charged by hand squeezing the powerbank. Depending on the different levels of battery, it would have different expressions.
表情螢幕
it fullfills young generation's need of stress relieving objects. 握力發電器本體
CONNECT
伸縮充電線
APP This app is for users to record their power generating experience.
PROFILE
STORE
RANKING
SET UP
Your Email Address
Your Passwords
SQUEEZE IT
LOG IN
Landing page/Registeration /Main menu
OR SIGN UP NOW
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I-Hsin Chen (Alice Chen) salice15@gmail.com