Background
F.I.S.K. was a project done as part of an Ubiquitous Computing course during MA studies. The purpose of the project was to gain practical and theoretical knowledge in software, hardware and various other materials cooperating in the design process of computational artefacts as well as to gain increased understanding for computer technology as design material and to gain practical knowledge in evaluation of prototypes.
Project results:
F. I. S. K. is a system for registering and visualizing the
average stress level of a company's employees. The main purpose is to keep workers
in good health and thereby optimize the company's total effort. The system consists
of sensors registering relevant information for each individual, a central server
making sense of the collected data and a suitable apparatus visualising the
average stress level. The sensors gather valuable data both at work and at home,
while sleeping. The visualisation object consists of a cylindrical aquarium
rigged with a controllable air pump and a light bulb. Bubbles released from
the pump at low-frequency intervals represent low stress levels and vice-versa.
The combination of data acquired by body- sensors and information about the
quality of sleep gained by the motion detector indicates non desirable health
conditions within a group and can, for example, be of great advantage for a
company's management.
- Methods used: brainstorming, interviews, questionnaires and personas.
- Project gave me a useful insight in the issues of ubiquitous computing and
privacy as well as exercise in creating personas, scenarios and prototyping.
- F.I.S.K was published as a part of SIDER’06 conference in February 2006. My
role in this project was low fidelity prototyping, UI design and programming
the prototype.
