Project - First Brainstorming Session

Contributors of post: Sven, Richard and Femma

Here's our brainstorming session for a new, innovative and designable product that uses HCI.

We came up with quite a few ideas for the different types of technology we could use. They are as follows:

• Paper type screen, which is a fairly new concept.


• Galilaeo system.


• Technology clothing.


• 3D holographic projections.

We came up with the following product ideas:

• Paper screen - used for a bicycle navigation system along with Galilaeo for tracking.


• Holographic projections instead of paper screen for bicycle navigation --> Holographic projectors, pops out of watch, 3D map in that direction.


• Holographic technology control robot doing surgery 3D ---> already been done?


• 8 legged freak robots that climb up the UoB clock tower shooting lasers at people and therefore eliminating the scummiest students.


• A music player system that has sensors and plays music according to the persons mood.


• Robot - more sophisticated tour guide as a hovering robot for foreign students --> we felt that systems like this were already available.


• Neural interface for a car, so the user can control it with their mind -->this might be too expensive and therefore infeasible.


• pupil movement tracking for virtual reality --> Rich elaborate?


• Female android as a gf for comp scientists --> perfect gf as there aren't that many at CS.

We decided to expand the bicycle navigation idea further. We came up with the following ideas:

It would have a paper type screen that would mould to contour of arm and would use the new galilaeo gps system for tracking.

One of the issues that we had with this is whether a 'curved' screen was a good idea or not? Is it going to be practical for contour of arm?

So how would the cyclist interact with the system?

There were various ideas we had for this.

• Push buttons before the cyclist sets off and therefore when in motion interaction would be minimalistic.


• Talk to it using a headset, however there would be a lot of noise so a very reliable system that filters out noise well would be needed. Also would the interaction be frequent enough to need this?


• Neural interface.

Practicality wise the bush button was the best idea.

We felt that the courier may need entertainment features in the system as below:

Music, interface with mobile phones

Built in games console gps, karaoke --> rates you on how good you are.
Home control system
PC on your arm

We felt that the idea could be extended for a hiker too.