GRAPHICALLY
A bridge linking texts and graphics
As the pace of our daily lives keeps accelerating, letters and books are failing and fading, while emojis and short-form videos are on a rapid rise. Our generation is sending a message that text is struggling to support high frequency information exchange, and a more effective approach is urgently needed. That’s where “Graphically” comes in, as not only an interpreting tool, a creator platform, but also a lifestye. With its assistant, we can see more graphically, speak more graphically, and most importantly, think more graphically.
Mind Map
Misunderstandings
Direct Translations & Culture Background
Grammar differences
Hard to concentrate & appreciate
Time-consuming Tedious
Slangs Exclusivity
Sentences
No understandings
Words Phrases
Articles Lengthy Pile up
Fixed collocations
Pictographic characters
Image annotations
Understand
Film adaption & Animation
Indigestion of knowledge
Easy to... Remember Read
Graphic Emotional
Graphic interpreter
Factors
Pain
How our brain works? How is text working out for us now?
Most preferred lengths of readings(pure text).
The human brain processes images 60,000 times faster than text, and 90 percent of information transmitted to the brain is visual
How is graphics helping us?
For over 100 people in my research, 82% of them have encountered translation errors.
Do the various translation tools they use have illustrating pictures?
56% Very Little
25% None 19% Yes
Think that the errors are less likely to happen if with images.
People’s tolerance of text is significantly lower than of graphics and still decreasiing. Graphics help us greatly when it comes to learning and expressing.
Persona
James ArthurI want knowledge to be given in a more enjoyable way rather than in pure texts which i read everyday.
I’m having constant need for translation apps, but encounters a lot of translation errors and slangs. I can’t understand them.
I’m a big fan of histories and fun facts. But I don’t like them to appear in pure texts form since I’ve read tons of books when studying.
Communication should never be confined to words.
I’m having a hard time communicating with foreign clients.
I can’t convey clearly and accurately in the constant briefs and presentations with my poor English.
I love literature but I’m too busy to read. That amount of words after work only gives me a headache.
Goals
I want to express my own opinions regarding hot topics. But I’m incapable of publishing essays or making animations myself.
Using mobile as the main study tool, PC and books as the auxiliary help. Frustrations
Find a way to understand translations more thoroughly than just word explanations.
Better access to knowledge with more than texts.
Get to express interesting opinions on a more inclusive platform.
Find a more efficient way to express and communicate with co-workers.
Get to enjoy literature in a faster and easier manner.
Yeah, I almost agree but the answer is still gonna be no. The man is still a green hand This kind of tasks will only run him down
Why did he agree but still reject my proposal? What is a green hand? How can the tasks run somebody down?
Design Concept
My idea is based on, but more than translation tools. I wish to build a platform, and everybody in it can use graphics to interpret not just words, but articles, topics, and events between cultures and backgrounds.
Who
Students Youngsters
People who need to thoroughly understand foreign languages for academic or business purposes
People who desire rapid input and output of knowledge.
App Website
Application, as the main medium for the product, offers convenience and efficiency through multilayered functions.
Website provides channels of cooperation between PC and smartphone for trickier functionsg
Dictionary Interpreter
1. A sharp change in direction
2. A slow pace of running
Automatically create videos or image combinations for long paragraphs.
Reader Workshop
Read with graphics showing you more than what you can digest between the lines.
Do-it-yourself! Customize your very own graphics to express and interact.
We turn text into graphic
User Journey
What’s the meaning of this word?
It’s quite lucid, I can understand right away.
That’s how I should use it. No more misunderstandings.
Remember the image, remember the word.
I like this topic and feel comfortable of it’s length.
So that’s what was going on in this scene.
My mind is clearer due to the help of the annotations.
The story is becoming more vivid.
I can use many materials other users made and shared online.
It’s fun to make them.
I can make my points lively They’ll absolutely understand.
I’m so proud!
What’s the meaning of this word?
So complecated. I can’t thoroughly understand
I don’t know what it represent in my own language.
It’s too hard to remember
I like this topic and feel comfortable of it’s length.
I forgot some of the previous plot.
It’s hard to understand without any annotations.
The story is becoming boring / time consuming
I can’t quite describe all my points by merely speaking.
My writing skills are too flat and dull
I can’t find the perfect graphics and I also do not have the skills to make them myself
Information Structure
Trending
Usere Posts
Graphics & Videos
Further Details Like & Share & Collect & Comment
Dictionary
Search
Language options
Word / Phrase (Graphic style options)
Image ranking
Explanations
Graphics Words
Share & Collect
Interpreter
Search
Sentences Explanations
Camera
Other means
Items
Workshop
Setting area
Customize
Materials
Timeline
Dubbing
Graphics Videos Words
Voice input
Share & Collect
Characters / Objects / Pictures / Infographics...
Upload Preview & Save
Share
Wrap text
Overlap text
Reader
Library Upload
Graphic help
Annotations Add by yourself
Below text Off
Use lines, figures and colors to create your own unique images.
Then upload them for others to understand and employ them.
Video workshop
Use materials provided by the app, others, and yourselves to compose videos that interpret phrases, quotations, and events.
Mood board
Colors
Typography
AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMm
NnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYy
Zz1234567890
Century Gothic Regular
AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMm
NnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYy
Zz1234567890 Bold
Hucklebuck JF 方正清刻本悦宋简体
AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPp
QqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz1234567890
AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMm
NnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYy
Zz1234567890
Since the iconic type of graphics composed of geometric figures can be more concise and explicit, which matches what this project is trying to achieve, the APP will follow this art style in general. (But works of all styles are also welcome here)
Pure colors
Rounded shapes
Grometric figures
Basic collocation
Under various cross-cultural situations, Graphically can always translate texts into graphics in order to help your gain information more effectively, accurately, and comprehensively.
By interpreting a word, a phrase, an idiom, even an entire book into concise graphics in the creator mode, thoughts and ideas from every corner of the world can be easily exchanged !
1. Interpreter 2. Creator Kyle Cheng’s ProductionApplying piezoelectric induction technique to free our hands from handheld equipment without changing the traditional usage method. The monolithic design serves as both a wrist protector and a rectifier, creating a genuinely healthy and pleasant operating environment.
PROJECT 2
“Revolutionary, yet classic”
Secondary research
Main problems
As an indispensable handheld hardware with such high usage rate, mouse is always jeopardizing our health, and none of our product really solves this problem.
It mainly causes two kinds of illnesses...
Tenosynovitis
Also known as trigger finger.
It hurts so much when I bend my hand this way !!!
Carpel Tunnel Syndrome
More than 1 million new cases of carpal tunnel syndrome occurred in 2019, 47% considered to be work related.
Main reasons
Due to the defects in the original design of mouse and the fact that few of us know the cor rect way of mouse using, pain and illnesses are for excessive mouse users.
Main research
67% of the mouses in the market are poorly designed, they tend to sacrifice utility for novel appearance and other factors. Customers do fall for that.
A research covering 100 office workers observed their ways of using mouse, 63% of them are operating falsely, and nearly half of their mouses don’t suit them.
User research
I observed the usage of mouses of 20 students who engage in computer-related activities at least 3 hours a day.
The way they grip
They gave up the right way within...
The way they operate
the hight of the mouse
the presence of gravity
it didn’t last long for their hands to fall and misplace
Everybody experienced , but they still tend to use this kind of rotation to control mouses.
75% grip the right way Rotate
Radial deviation: 15°
Ulnar deviation: 25°
How they operate
Way more pressure centers on the wrist and incline the hand. (Usually impulsive)
Flatten the hand and spread the pressure evenly. (Arm and hand in line)
Issue analysis
Is your mouse failing you?
I also conducted a survey concerning handhelp products that covers 226 individuals, most are students and office workers. 52% of them use computer 1~4 hours a day, 21% of them reach 5 hours.
Make sure my design reserves the origi-
People are using their mouses wrong.
Most users experience the pain on a regular basis. But since it comes and goes, most of them aren’t taking this problem seriously
Based on the fact that most of the mouses in the market are defective, the ergonomic mouses we have now are still failing to solve the problem. They can only moderate, but unable to eradicate the pain.
The mouse body and gravity will bring pressure on the wrist no matter how accurate your posture is, which made the pain and illnesses inescapable.
Persona
OFFICE WORKER
Brad
34 years old, from New York
Frustrations
carpal tunnel syndrome due to long time computer work. But I have to keep doing it because it’s my job.
I need more hand exercise, but it’s only a temporary solution rather than a perma
COLLEGE STUDENT
Rachel 19 years old, from Los Angeles
Frustrations
I don’t know the right way to use mouses so my pisiform bone is always rubbing with the table and it hurt.
The wrong usage has became a habit of mine, I tired but I can’t change.
I tried controlling the cursor with touchpad, but it’s way trickier than normal mouse.
I can’t find a mouse that really fits my hand shape and size.
Goals
My design will be able to stably reduces the friction between the wrist area and the platforms.
The form of my design will be less confining for people to hold and to do some exercises while using it.
My design will also be a “straightener”, rectifying the erroneous usage of mouse.
User journey
Purchase Phases
Employ
Behaviors
Choose the mouse online / in store
Grip the mouse Click the mouse Move the mouse
After use
Sore, painful, annoying, getting diseases
Conduct exercises, buy new mouses, go see doctors
No time for exercises
Problems
Touch points
Online: The mouse shape don’t fit you
Feelings
The self-adaptive ability of the mouse
Too large or too small to grip
Annoying noise while clicking
No mouse solves the problem
Relapse after seeing the doctor
The mouse buttons
Use the mouse incorrectly Excited!
The shape of the mouse
The whole form of mouse
I need something better......
Not what I expected...
I can’t get rid of this bad habit.
I’m so sick of this!
Kind of annoying.
Product research
I picked 4 representatives out of the 12 main types of mouse products in the market that can help with current problems.
Advantage
Your forearms won’t be twisted, reduce frictions
Disadvantage
It’s hard for people to get use to the unusual mouse-holding gesture.
There are still pressure on the pisiform bone area, which may leads to inflammations.
Advantage
No need for twisting bones. The “pen and paper” form helps you to way better.
Disadvantage
Very inconvenient when using it to com mand the cursor.
There are still pressure area, which may leads to inflammations.
Advantage
xquisite, easy to transport, store, and employ. No need of holding an actual object.
Disadvantage
equire large scale activities from your fin gers, tiresome from repetitive users.
There are still pressure on the pisiform bone area, which may leads to inflammations.
Advantage
Ease the wrist pressure be used on both arms.
Disadvantage
A device separates from the mouse and keyboard, rather inconvenient when using and transporting.
Users may pick up the bad habit wrist as the center of mouse moving.
Ergonomic mouse Padrone ring RestMe wrist support Stylus mouseConcept sketches
The wrist support part and the cursor controlling part will be integrated into one multi-functional device.
Keypoints
Based on above researches and ideas, 3 parts will be indispensable in my design, integrated into one with the help of sensors and gestures.
Sensor part
Different tendons control different fingers, and separately distributed across the back of the hand. I can put sensors in this area.
Technical practice
Piezo sensor & Wiring
Cushion part
Mainly protect the median nerve and the pisiform bone, this part will locate slightly below the palm, covering the wrist.
Connection part
This part will connect the two parts above, and make sure your wrong hand posture will be rectified.
Small, shapable, sensitive.
Able to sense different gestures’ tendon movements on the back of your hand.
Gestures
Clicking Sliding Clenching
Left & right button Up & down wheel On/off type mode
Customizing
Design gestures
Final design
BIn the premise of reserving all functions of a normal mouse, the M-band protects your wrist perfectly and rectifies your using habits.
Materials & Functions
Measurements
Inches
“THE ROUTE”
FERENCE INTER
With the rapid development of our communication and transportation techniques, the world is getting much more united and centralized. However, the closer we get, the clearer it is that to interfere is one of the fundamental instincts of humanity: Parents steering their kids, friends giving you too many “advises”, coworkers meddling with private matters. “To interfere” became a collective act while we intergrate, affecting our way of life...
Regarding such phenomenon, this project wish to design a cautionary installation that visualizes the sequential course of the act of interference, revoking moments of introspections from the audience.
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RESEARCH01
WHO INTERFERES?
The dots distribution fits the regression curve, which shows positive correlation between the factors. The closer people are with you, the more they interfere. (Boss is the only exception since this rule won’t apply when a role has absolute power over you.)
Electoral intervention Family intervention Armed intervention Other Other
According to the search engine data, these are the most dicussed types of interference distributed based on occurrence frequency.
Some of these searches are two-sided but, using technical terms, over 80% of them are destructive interference, and less than 20% are constructive interference
43% Collective interference
YOU HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO TALENT IN THIS ARE YOU KIDDING?
SHE’S NOT THE ONE REALLY?
IT’S WAY OUT OF YOUR LEAGUE
BETTER THIS WAY
YOU CAN’T MARRY HER
KEYWORDS STOP! NO
INTEREST DOESN’T FEED YOU HE’S NOT THE ONE THAT’S WRONG LISTEN TO ME!
IT’S A DEAD END
IT’S NOT YOUR PLACE TO TALK FUNNY
IT’S OUT OF YOUR LEAGUE
FORGET ABOUT IT WEIRDO UNREALISTIC Mock Bullying
A BAD CHOICE JUST GIVE UP TAKE MY ADVICE NOT A GOOD CHOICE Advise Order
IT DOESN’T FIT YOU REDO IT
HOW? WHY
This is a wordcloud based on the usage rate and the intensity of tone of the keywords in interference, most of them can be divided into these three categories: Denying, Mocking, and Commanding .
Boss Colleague Friend Relative Lover Parent RelevanceI conducted a survey of 200 individuals from all ages about interference they personally experienced, interferences around them, and their own actions of such.
WHAT THEY INTERFERE
AFTER INTEFERENCE
HOW OFTEN
YOU EMOTIONS?
after others
I gathered 6 main emotions of people after others’ intervention. Almost all of them are negative, and more than 67% of people are experiencing two or more negative emotions at the same time.
CONCLUSION
Interpersonal interference always exist.
The forms of interference are becoming more and more diversed, especially from people who are intimate with you.
These interventional behavior brought mostly negative influences, and smote on people’s minds.
The majority ignore the dual traumas others imposed on them by verbally or physically interfering. They tend to blamed it on their current seniority or social status, and just cope with or even obey.
judge the apperances or life styles of others base on their own cognition, even apply harsh words
THE VICTIMS
A path, a stream, a beam, a flow, a track, a planet ring...Anything that exhibits its gorgeous self in its own route.
THE FACTORS
Rocks block streams, clouds shade sunbeams, but that’s the way nature operates. When it comes to authentic, intentional interference, Human Being should be the main supplier. What does human body bring into a room?
“POINT”
To make my point, I need something that‘ll be able to ference among the crowd.
HOW MIGHT WE...
The entire process of interference is unobservable
The original and fluent paths of others before interference. The initial start, the continuous process, and the ending of interference.
Create a self-driven installation that exhibit the process visually.
It will operate in its own pattern, and create an aesthetically pleasing flow.
3. Certain external factors will slow down, disturb, or even interrupt the ongoing flow.
There exist multiple types of interference around us
An action, a few words, even a subtle look can be intrusive. People sometimes don’t even realize the fact that they are interfering or being interfered.
External factors will be various. Spectators will participate, or even be the factors.
Can’t experience the damage and aftermath brought by interference
Change your hobbies, dicisions, even lifestyles.
People may never know how destructive their “advises” can be, and how long it’ll take for others to recover.
The operation of the installation will be repetitive. 1.
The disruptions and causes need to be noticeable.
Two angles for the spectators. You can be the observer of the interference, or the guy who interferes.
The disruptions of the installation depend on the quantity and severity of external factors. The more the worse. 2.
It will take a long period for the installation to recove and get back on its own track. 3.
Smaller installation that requires magnifier
Advantages: Easy to practice, more space to distinguish interference. Disadvantages: Weaker visual apperance. Needs accessory equipments to exhibit.
Disadvantages: Hard to practice, more external factors need to be considered.
Advantages: Visual impact, authentic experience to the viewers. More versatile installation, more precise sensors.
INSPIRATIONS
SKETCH
Pendulum
With an initial force, pendulums will operate on their own and slowly draw beautiful trails under the impact of
In my mind, it represents the destined route of individuals.
(Maybe combine with a drum to create pleasing tunes)
offers people not only a state of inner peace, but also the visualization of the circulation of life. It’s the ideal carrier for this
Maybe magnetic balls can be controlled by magnets beneath to form various patterns.
Very visual, but nonautomatic
A combination of the formal solutions with all their merits. It can function by itself perfectly, and display the whole course of interference.
Swing arm with a bob connected at the end
Sands in the tray, magnets around the pedestal ready to interfere at anytime.
Visual, natural trails, interactive Automatic, but invisible
The Lissajous patterns
The graphs of a system of equations which alters with various parameters.
The speed ratios of pen dulum periods
A Y-shaped string gives the same pendulum different lengths in different directions create such patterns.
Enter
The installation operates on its own route.
USER FLOW
Stand by Observe the whole process of interference, and the contrast of before and after.
PATTERNS
Restoration
Without further interference, the pattern start to restore.
Your acts determine whether you are the observer or the enforcer of interference
Make noises Approach Flash lights Disruption
A few typical interfering acts that people tend to apply in public space .
Realization
The viewers visually experience the power of interference,
According to calculation, the length ratio on the final installation will be about 6/7 .
The closer the speed ratio is, the more complex patterns can be.
MATERIALS
WIRING DIAGRAM
PROTOTYPE
TECHNICAL FLOW
Irradiate bright light directly to the installation
Approaches or even try to touch the installation
Creates noises with dialogues and movements
Light sensor
Send signals when detects light source above 20 candelas
Ultrasonic sensor
Send signals when detects any object within 4 inches
Make sure the surroundings won’t trigger the sensors.
Observe the motions quitely without triggering the sensors.
Intervene with noise and barrier, altered the natural route of the pendulum successfully .
the
Decibel sensor
Send signals when detects noises above 60 decibels
Pendulum Electromagnets
Draws random routes on the sands after magnets interfere from every angle
How strong people interferes determines the magnetic strength
Plumb bob Silver sands Power cables Ultrasonic sensor Electric relay Decibel sensor Light sensor Arduino uno 1. Materials 2. Process 3. Outcome“THE ROUTE”
The supporting column with more strings inside for adjustment.
SCENARIOS
Clip Sands
Embodies interference and its whole process
“The planetary ring” Container
Control the length and patterns of the pendulum.
Bob
The victim of interference, made of magnetic materials
The installation smoothly operates, attracting Visitors start to interfere with minor acts, which to you. covers its
Rounded but edgy, telling people to “stay away”. The 16 planes have 3 sensors and 1 electromagnet each, covering interference from all angles.
Blind - FOLD
With the continuous refinement of the society’s welfare system, a wide range of facilities were built for the disabled. Under such background, how to enjoy life and be entertained became the major issue for people with disabilities. This project mainly focuses on the visually-impaired community and wish to make the amusement of poker accessable to them.
PROJECT 4
BACKGROUND
There currently exist 76 million people who are either suffering from low vision, visual impairment, or complete vision loss. While almost 90% of the recreational activities we have now are vision-based and extremely unfriendly to the blind community.
During social events...
SURVEY
I posted a survey about what blind people do during free time sincere responses from the visually impaired groups. The responses are rather polarized so I chose 4 representatives.
Blind people
Feels
Lack of confidence /
Diminished mobility /
Increased loneliness /
Social exclusion /
Entertaining activities
Requires
Constant contacts / Adequate responses / Timely info receptions / “Feel the room” /
“My biggest problem...I have absolutely nothing to do.”
“I can’t even stare at the walls.”
“Basiclly the same things as sighted people do for fun.”
“Pretty much everthing, with a lot of adaption of my own.”
Passive Positive Analysis
CASE STUDY
Kitchen utensils design
With flames, gas, shape blades and all kinds of dangerous objects even for sighted people existing, the kitchen can be a forbidden area for people with visual disabilities. But we can’t prevent this healthy hobby from them.
This design includes a plastic protective jacket around the blade, a collector for chopped-up vegetables, an easy-using, dual-purpose pot cover and a spoon that tells you water level.
Protective Assistant
- Ergonomically designed
- Easy to learn, easy to use
- Extremely practical
- Preserved the original ways.
- No interactions.
Exhibit
for the blind
By using the technique of scanning and 3D-pringting, a museum recreate art masterpieces for the visually-impaired as they can now touch the paintings and feels the brush strokes.
Keyphone
1 2 3
In the form of an outer coat for handheld devices, this design has made the complex cell phone operations quite understandable and access able for blind people with its geometric figures.
Tactile Assistant
- Focused on texture
- Scanning
- 3D-printing
- Changing textures
- Difficult to produce.
What can’t we do?
Analysis & Goals
According to the rather polarized results from my online post, I divided my mindmap to “positive” and “passive”. The positive part lists out plenty of activity types that serve as inspirations, while the passive part provides the vulnerabilities of the visually impaired so they can be clearer targets that need to be resolved in the final design.
Limited things to do.
A designed game
An auxiliary device Rules that allow the visually impaired to play equally with others.
PERSONA
Frustrations
I tried to entertain myself in my free time, but it’s always so inconvenient due to my poor abilities to locate and gain information.
I need to play solo in most of the recreational activities since I need to make major changes in the rules and I can’t really nteract with others.
I tried to adapt myself to activities by using homemade gadgets and plug-ins. But it’s complex to compose them even with my daughter’s help.
Interests
Terry
Cooking Board game Classical music
New and more ways to present information in recreational activity. The activity can be played on one’s own with no additional help. The activity can be conducted with others equally.
69 years old GOALS /
Frustrations
My father Terry gets bored easily since he receives no visual information. I need something that can entertain him conveniently without my presence.
His reactions are getting slow due to the aging and the visually impairment. He needs games that can exercise his mind.
It’s hard to help him understand trending entertainments with new rules and technologies. We might need some old-fasioned activities.
My dad became visually impaired as he age, and the incapability of doing things he loved really bums him out. I feel his pain and wish to bring the joy of life back to him.
An activity that can be conveniently operated. The activity should be developmental and can exercise our minds. Preserving the activity’s original way.
GOALS /
ROSA 34 years old
Phrase
Preparation Operation Aftermath
1. Choose a recreational activity that requires less use of vision and make adjustments to fit the blind participants.
Behavior
2. People got confused by the new rules thus use a rather long time to reach consensus.
1. It’s so embarrasing having everybody waiting for me.
Thought Pain Point
2. I’m not sure if this can work.
3. Hope we will move much faster once the game starts.
1. People with visual disabilities begin to run into troubles.
2. The whole process stops and people become impatient.
3. Minor comflict about the rules appears.
1. It’s still so hard to play along even with all the efforts.
2. The game is advancing so slow...
3. Why all the rules are changing in his favor? It’s so unfair.
1. Party ends, people left unpleased.
2. Two groups fail to sympathize with each other.
3. Fails to entertain.
1. I’m hardly entertained but rather embarrassed and confused.
2. I know we need to look after people with disabilities, but I can’t waste my saturday night on this anymore.
Less visual demands. Simpler or the classical rules. More fluent process. Fair and healthy interactions. Make their feelings interchangeable.
Emotion
Behavior
Thought
1. Use braille poker and decide how to play.
2. Briefly go through the rules which people are already familiar with.
1. This is just like poker, I can totally handle it.
2. Let’s get this party started! This is such a fresh way to play poker.
1. The game progresses smoothly.
2. People have fun during this brand new experience and bond with each other.
1. I have no trouble playing with others!
2. It’s the first time for me to use my sense of tactile to play board games, it’s like I’m learning braille.
1. What a great night! They appoint for more.
2. Understands how hard it is to do basic entertainments with low sight.
1. I needed no additional help and was treated equally.
2. I can relate to people with visual disabilities more now.
GAME DESIGN
Plans
In my design, the card numbers are replaced by brailles in the top right corner and the bottom left corner, and the card suits are showed by card faces with different textures while all the card backs stay the same.
Special texture covering the entire card face in
PROTOTYPE MAKING
Materials
Select textures
Braille alphabet
Availability
Practicability
Interactivity
Card suits
Numbers & shapes
Hearts Diamonds Spades Clubs
Though four suits will be shown by different textures, the color of the card faes will all be black in order to reduce the visual information to a minimum.
Measurements
Deep enough, but not too deep to thicken the card
Bridge size: 56 x 88.9mm
Most common size in recreational card games.
DEVICE IDEAS
The Slide
When there are a small quantity of community cards which need to be read and remembered, we can use this device to store the cards and with our touch whenever we want.
The Loop
With this wearable device, we can just sweep our hand above the community cards, and the audio device will broadcast the card numbers.
The Bowl
When the game involves dealing big amount of cards from multiple players, “the bowl” can help fot it gathers cards from all angles, and will scan and broadcast the cars all together.
The Coaster
With an ID chip in every card, the “coaster” will be able to identify each one of them(even when they overlaps), then announce the num bers and suits of the cards through the speak er in the bottom.
Easy to store and easy to charge since they can easily pile up with each other.
1 device, 1 player. No matter what card games you
TECHNICAL SUPPORT
As the more advanced techinique that can identify tags, the bidirectional NFC control the censoring distance more precise but can only do one-to-one recognitions.
RFID can identify multiple tags at the same time by changing its working frequency. It’s also a more economical choice.
Process Charging
Apply charging method of the coaster pager for reference
With a RFID tag in every card, the reader will be able to identify the numbers and the suits on them, then announce them with the speaker
GAME SCENARIOS
Step 1
Place your own pad in front of you, and remember it’s location. (Very easy to locate especially for blind people.)
Step 2
Identify the specially made cards with your touches before the game starts.
Put 3 public cards on the pad and it
Step 4
Put your pocket hands on the pad and start the showdown! The pad will calculate and announce your best hand.
Step 5
After the game, pile them up and store them in wherever you need them!
THOUGHTS
Blind-fold not only is a new entertaining concept suitable for the visually impaired, but also can be a figurative “blind-fold” on normal people, offering them no additional information to ensure a completely fair game for both parties.
As the most diversed board game, every country, every culture has their own way of playing poker, which made my design a great way for the visually-impaired to “see” the world. This project shouldn’t be confined to poker, every game has the chance to adapt to this game mode, like how every blind person has the chance to enjoy life like everyone else