Harvard Graduate School of Design | Fall 2017
Deployable Surfaces: Dynamic performance through multi-material architectures
Team | Kevin Chong , Eliza Pertigkiozoglou, Carla Saad, Anne Stack
Instructors | Chuck Hoberman, Jonathan Grinham
Harvard Graduate School of Design | Fall 2017
Deployable Surfaces: Dynamic performance through multi-material architectures
Team | Kevin Chong , Eliza Pertigkiozoglou, Carla Saad, Anne Stack
Instructors | Chuck Hoberman, Jonathan Grinham
Harvard Graduate School of Design | Fall 2017
Deployable Surfaces: Dynamic performance through multi-material architectures
Team | Kevin Chong , Eliza Pertigkiozoglou, Carla Saad, Anne Stack
Instructors | Chuck Hoberman, Jonathan Grinham
NODE
reimagining emergency
response for resilient
cities
NODE
reimagining emergency
response for resilient
cities
NODE
reimagining emergency
response for resilient
cities
Syncsense
An intervention for motion
sickness on airplanes
Framework.
From ships rolling in the high seas to rocket boosted sleds running at 632mph, humans have been experiencing extreme dynamic motion for eons. Under these conditions, people are susceptible to motion sickness due to sensory conflict between what they are seeing (the ocular system) and the forces they are experiencing (proprioceptive & vestibular systems).
Overview.
Syncsense is a motion sickness mitigation system designed to be implemented on commercial airplanes.
Team
Advisors
Erin McLean
Arjun Menon
Carla Saad
Fawwaz Habbal
Jock Herron
Peter Stark
Andrew Witt
Collaborative Design Engineering Studio I
Scale of Impact
Motion sickness per mode of Transportation in the US
The intervention should mitigate the effects of motion sickness for a traveler by
Syncsense is a motion sickness mitigation system designed to be implemented on commercial airplanes. The intervention is a multi-step process that rescues the user from nausea by disrupting the brain's emetic response then provides relief by uniting the ocular and vestibular senses.
Intervention Strategy
Syncsense is based on mapping the coordinates of the passenger and on projecting the correspondent horizon line both on a deployable screen for business class travellers or through virtual reality glasses handed to the economy class passengers.
The sensing & digital interface
Skin temperature measuraed
by capacitance in fabric
Heart Rate Sensor embedded into P6 pressure applicator
The deployable Screen
Virtual Reality | Bringing the horizon line to the passenger
The VR kit
Key Takeaways
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Digital interventions as well might give us solutions to enhance our well being.
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Cutting-edge technologies such as Virtual Reality might bear potential unexplored solutions for real-world problems if combined with spatial and user experience design.