Stuff!
I lose at useful titles.
Anyway, I was thinking about Russell's "inspiration tray" idea thingy, and decided to try an experiment. How about an online one? I've made a Photobucket account for the team - I don't know whether we'll use it at all, or how useful it will be, but it only took 5 minutes to set up so I'll email the access details out, and if anyone needs any help uploading to it, just ask.
Link to the album
To get it started, I've added some relevant images to it. Russell suggested random stuff is also added to inspiration trays, but it's harder to be deliberately random than you'd expect! If nothing else, it might be a good place to throw design-related imagery around to get the creative juices flowing. Could we get it added to the side bar of useful links, maybe?
I really liked the 'novelty motion detector'. It made me think how we could possibly integrate the system into the decor of the home, to make the user feel less like they're surrounded by advanced technology.
On another note, I also came across this website while I was googling: http://www.svsmarthomes.com/
It's an existing system, but its function is more to digitise all the common functions of a home into one centre, and it's targeted more at modern families than old people specifically. Nonetheless, it has some useful images of the interface and such that might trigger ideas, and also give us a better overview of actual, existing technology for the kind of thing we want to design.
Anyway, I was thinking about Russell's "inspiration tray" idea thingy, and decided to try an experiment. How about an online one? I've made a Photobucket account for the team - I don't know whether we'll use it at all, or how useful it will be, but it only took 5 minutes to set up so I'll email the access details out, and if anyone needs any help uploading to it, just ask.
Link to the album
To get it started, I've added some relevant images to it. Russell suggested random stuff is also added to inspiration trays, but it's harder to be deliberately random than you'd expect! If nothing else, it might be a good place to throw design-related imagery around to get the creative juices flowing. Could we get it added to the side bar of useful links, maybe?
I really liked the 'novelty motion detector'. It made me think how we could possibly integrate the system into the decor of the home, to make the user feel less like they're surrounded by advanced technology.
On another note, I also came across this website while I was googling: http://www.svsmarthomes.com/
It's an existing system, but its function is more to digitise all the common functions of a home into one centre, and it's targeted more at modern families than old people specifically. Nonetheless, it has some useful images of the interface and such that might trigger ideas, and also give us a better overview of actual, existing technology for the kind of thing we want to design.
Labels: existing technology
posted by Samantha at 1:19:00 pm
3 Comments:
I like it, Sam, this is great! You've reminded me I need a photo for Lily...
I think it'll be good to add things like computer/technological abilities to the template, it should help us.
As some more existing technology, I added this as a comment to a previous post but here we go again:
Personal Alarms
Another thing to think about:
Mobility Aids for the Elderly
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