For the final project my team consists of Aldrich Tan, Kennet Kwok, Ashley Lee, Stephanie Wiriahardja. We will be creating two wearable interfaces. One of which will be for a toddler to wear the other for their parents.
The toddler's wearable will be used to detect sudden accelerations or decelerations which would occur in falls as well as the resulting impact from them. These sensations would be transmitted to the wearable of the parent allowing them to experience these events. In doing so, the parent would be more aware of the toddler as they are not able to watch them all the time and small incidents may go unnoticed resulting in long term damage.
This idea was inspired by a story in which a toddler was under the care of a babysitter and suffered a fall. This fall went unreported to the parents. The parents later discovered that the infant had suffered a brain injury from this unreported incident and it is still not clear what the long term effects will be for the child.
Our goal is to increase the connection of parents to their children in a way that reduces interpretation of the events that occur. We intend to use both vibration and linear actuation devices to produce discomfort and possibly pressure to the parent. Our device should produce clear, physical messages from the toddler to the parent in the event of a fall.
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