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$UGAR PAIN
by Xiaoji Zhou
# wearable
# interactive technology
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“art as a tool for cultural interrogation and to make body pain and health inequity visible to the public”
$ugar Pain is a wearable and performance art that intends to reveal the unequal relationship between diabetes, in-come, and the food industry in the USA. Diabetic patients with lower income are more vulnerable to the high sugar content in cheaper food. The inflatable wearable reflects the often neglected and invisible pain of Edema those diabetic patients face. Edema, usually refers to swollen ankles and feet but can involve the entire body, is a symptom of diabetes that occurs when specific tissue in the body gets filled with fluid. While visualizing the invisible pain as a growing prosthetic, this project connects retail price directly to such pain of diabetes through barcode scanning. Inspired by the blood glucose monitoring device that extracts blood from the fingertip, the portable scanner transmits barcodes. It calculates the ratio of price and sugar content to control the level of inflation of the prosthetics.
Interactive Mechanism
Action 1: Barcode Scanning
Action 2: Sugar Calculating Action 3: Glove Growing sugar per dollar would determine the duration of air pumping into the glove after the calculation
Scanning Samples
A Collection of Food Products with Common Options (usually cheaper) and Healthier (more expensive) Alternatives a cheaper option for strawberry product more expensive option
