As computing becomes more ubiquitous in our objects, designers need to be more aware of how to design meaningful interactions into electronically enhanced objects. At the University of Washington, a class of junior Interaction Design majors is exploring this question. These pages chronicle their efforts.

Monday, June 6, 2016

Peter + Kylen; logic behind the mood lamp


After doing some research on the "science" behind mood rings, we discovered that the extremities on the human body vary in temperature more than any other body part. The large fluctuations in temperature make it possible for mood rings to display a wide range of colors, and there are even keys for which temperatures relate to which moods.  Read more about this here: https://www.bestmoodrings.com/blog/how-mood-rings-work

We moved forward with this logic when creating our pseudo-code:


**Note: after moving along with this project, we decided to remove the step at the end where the device tweet's the user's mood.
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