Meeting Notes – March 1, 2012

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ANGRY / DISTRESSED (NEGATIVE VALENCE, HIGH AROUSAL)

• fast/strong vibrate or breathing, and heat
• red
• red and fast vibrate/breathing
• ears/body shape and breathing/vibrate
• tense and breathing/vibrate and red
• texture??
• puffed up

EXCITED (POSITIVE VALENCE, HIGH AROUSAL)

• perked ears and breathing/vibrate
• large/slow vibration (waddle/rock)
• color/rainbow (fast color change) and vibrate/breathing

NEUTRAL/AWARE

If the phone is always moving (during neutral), are people more likely to interpret this as the phone’s emotions vs other people emotions?

– living neutral vs phone neutral/phone off

How to then convey neutral text messages?

Can we separate neutral and relaxed?

• even breathing
• twitch ears slowly
• shrugging (corners go up or come together)
• slightly cool?

RELAXED (POSITIVE VALENCE, LOW AROUSAL)

• untensed/expanded
• slow breathing
• warm

DEPRESSED / COLD/ICY

•  cold

 

OUR BIG FOUR

Vibrate (small and large)

Temperature

Breathing

Ears

Maybe add color and noise later… as a way of helping it along, help people tell them apart …can be a kind of visual illusion

 

PROTOTYPES

Ears (mechanized or puppet)

Breathing (mechanized)

Vibrate and temperature (mechanized)

 

DIMENSIONS

For now, aim for one inch wider and one inch longer than iPhone dimensions

All the prototypes are currently 13cm x 7cm

SHOPPING LIST

• peltier plate or two
• heat sink
• small buzzers
• smaller servos
• small unenclosed vibrator

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