INFO

This week, We had a course called Mobile Hacking with Matt Cottam and Brian Hinch from Tellart.

The design brief for these five days of concept development and prototyping was to consider non-verbal communication and telepresence as constraints, while creating systems in which people could use their augmented mobile devices to interact with their pets when they were away from home.

CONCEPT

Erik, Maria and I worked as a team designed an application in which a light sensor allowed you to see if your cat’s food is running out on your iPad. Then by shaking the iPad you could shake a box of food back at home to call your cat, and by tilting the screen with the same gesture as pouring cat food from a box, you could refill the bowl. Meanwhile, a proximity sensor allowed you to see if your cat is closing or not.

DOCUMENTATION

Despite the model clearly being a sketch made of wood and hardware store parts, it was wireless and it worked.

Here is a video documentation about the process of this project.