Sensing Ideas | Joo Oh + Angela Piccolo

Our scenario that we want to move forward with is “What if a table lamp can detect how much your friends and family miss/love you”?
 Our scenario that we want to move forward with is “What if a table lamp can detect how much your friends and family miss/love you”? We thought this option would give us a wide variety of different inputs and outputs that we can brainstorm and play with. We were also stoked to hear feedback on creating the power of the placebo effect how your brain can convince a not-so-functional treatment is a real thing with our idea.

Here is a list of a few signals that we think would work well to detect our situation.

1. Hugging or hovering over an object for a long time (heat) 
2. Talking to an object (sound waves) 
3. Blowing a kiss and have bubbles or fog as an outcome 
4. Celebrating together by shaking something (vibration) or typing emojis (digital input), and confetti comes out as an outcome 

Here is our list of different sensors that we are considering to use for each of our signals. We have linked to a potential option but are open to finding different ones.

1.  Hugging or hovering 
1.  Heat sensor 
2.  Flex Sensor 
2.  Talking to an object 
1.  Vibration Sensor 
2.  Proximity Sensor 
3.  Blowing a Kiss 
1. Conductive Pom Pom 
2. Air Flow Sensor 
4. Celebrating Together 
1. Vibration Sensor 
2.  Touch Sensor