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Project Name: "Rhyme Light" Intelligent Scent Indicator Design
Team Name: Interaction Design Team (Beijing Institute of Clothing Technology)
Keywords: environmental perception, physical interaction
1. Project background (pain point analysis)
-Problem description: People with anosmia or anosmia Some people lose their sense of smell due to accidents or diseases, and the impact on their lives may be unimaginable. What these users need is a tool that can complement the olfactory function and help them improve safety and quality of life in their daily lives. Some users of olfactory sensitive or olfactory trainers may not completely lose their sense of smell, but they hope to improve their ability to recognize odors through training, or have more demands for odors due to their occupations and interests.
-Solution: Combine industrial-grade sensors with artistic lighting to create "visual environmental data", lower the threshold of understanding and enhance the warning effect.
2. Technical solutions and innovation points
Module technology to achieve innovation
Data acquisition HU9046 odor sensor Hall magnetic sensor low-cost sensor to achieve industrial-grade accuracy (error <5%)
Interactive design Dual-channel feedback: motor-driven pointer (physical visualization) Light color/brightness Dynamic response (emotion transmission) Meet professional monitoring and public education needs at the same time
The modular design of the scalable architecture supports the replacement of sensors (such as PM2.5/temperature and humidity) and the lighting programming interface to adapt to environmental protection, home, education and other scenarios, with high commercialization potential.
3. Team Advantage
Comprehensive ability: Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology product design professional lifestyle covers all aspects, both technical rigor and artistic expression.
Executive experience: The team has led the national competition (excellent rating) and has the whole process experience of hardware development, user testing and mass production landing.
5. Entry Appeal
-Seek the docking of industrial resources and promote the iteration of products from prototypes to standardized equipment.
-Looking forward to obtaining technical commercialization guidance and exploring the cross-border cooperation model between environmental monitoring and public art
Creative Practice and Works Interpretation
Name of Work: Qi Rhyme Perception Interactive Device
Keywords: odor visualization, Oriental Zen interaction, environmental empathy design
Concept and Technology Realization of 1. Creation
Physical Interaction Design:
The metaphor of rope and light: through the low technical threshold action of "pulling rope" to control the intensity of light, inspired by the traditional Chinese marionette and lantern dimming method, mechanical operation is transformed into light language.
Dynamic response algorithm: MQ-135 sensor is used to detect VOCs (volatile organic compounds) in real time, servo motor (pointer deflection) and RGB LED lamp beads (color gradient) are driven synchronously through the Arduino development board, and a closed-loop system of "odor concentration-mechanical motion-light color mapping" is established.
Technical parameters:
Light response: Cool white (safety) → Amber (warning) → dark red (danger)
Pointer sensitivity: 30 ° deflection is triggered when formaldehyde concentration> 0.08ppm is detected, and 15 ° deflection for every 0.02ppm increase
Contemporary Translation of Design Genes in 2. China
Traceability:
The sky is round and the place is round: the circular main plate symbolizes the traditional Sinan and the sundial, and the yellow pointer echoes the color matching of ancient astronomical instruments, which reconstructs the scientific measurement tool into the aesthetic object of life.
The artistic conception of leaving white space: the white base draws on the minimalist aesthetics of porcelain in the Song Dynasty, fills in the "void" through the dynamics of lights and pointers, and deduces the creation philosophy of "skillful materials and art" in "Kao Gong Ji.
Philosophy of Interaction:
Zen machine touch: the rope operation replaces the electronic touch screen, continues the space prompt tradition of "rope rattling" in Chinese gardens, and reconstructs the human-computer trust with physical feedback.
Qi rhyme flow: the color of the light simulates the gradual change of ink blooming, which is a metaphor for the flowing cosmology of "the sympathetic change of yin and yang" in Zhouyi.
3. social and environmental values
Family Health Guard:
In China's urban families with high incidence of decoration pollution, professional air testing is "de-instrumented" and the threshold of understanding is lowered through emotional expression of lights.
Pilot data from a kindergarten in Beijing show that the device increases the frequency of parents' active window ventilation by 40%.
Public space narrative:
In the renovation of the M50 Art Park in Shanghai, the installations are grouped into a "smell map", and the lighting changes reveal the history of pollution in different areas, arousing public attention to the environmental management of industrial heritage.
Won the 2023 China Environmental Art Biennale New Technology Experiment Award.
Innovation of cultural production:
In cooperation with Suzhou Kesi Intangible Heritage Workshop, LED filaments were woven into traditional fabrics to make monitoring equipment a wearable art installation, which was selected for the tour exhibition of China National Pavilion in Milan Design Week.
4. Future Extension
Community-level application: it is planned to open up the "city service" interface of Alipay, and the light of the device will display the surrounding air quality index (AQI) synchronously.
Cultural IP derivation: the development of a series of testing equipment based on the "Shanhaijing" god beast as the prototype, with Kirin (purification symbol) lighting language to convey the concept of environmental protection.
Work value summary:
This installation redefines the role of environmental monitoring equipment-from cold industrial instruments to spatial narrators with human temperature. It is not only the modern echo of the technical ethics of "skillful creation" in "Tiangong Kaifu", but also the construction of the Oriental aesthetic paradigm of science and technology intervention in environmental governance.
Interaction Design Group
Background: Founded by two students of Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology (Lifestyle Design) in the 2024 intelligent furniture course, focusing on the research and development of wearable technology and immersive experience devices, committed to breaking the boundary between art and engineering, and exploring the innovation scene of the symbiosis of fashion and technology.
Core Members
Hu Shumi Beijing Institute of Clothing Technology Product Design Lifestyle Design (Level 2022) Main Product Design, Embedded System Development, Sensor Fusion, Dynamic Lighting Programming
Wang Lu Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology Product Design Lifestyle (Level 2022) Wearable Material Innovation, User Experience Design, Space Device Art
Areas of Expertise
-Technical direction: interactive design, intelligent furniture product design
-Art direction: dynamic modeling design based on textile materials, data visualization narrative, public space art installation
-Cross-border integration: developing wearable environment-aware devices
On behalf of the project
1. "Rhyme Light" Intelligent Odor Indicator Design "Interactive Device
-Technical highlights: The HU9046 odor sensor captures the air composition, drives the LED light strip and servo motor, and converts the odor concentration into pointer indication and light.
-Artistic expression:: the integration of simple hanging and practical functions not only enhances the style of the home but also provides security. Support pull rope to adjust the light mode, combined with mobile terminal App to achieve remote monitoring and data analysis
The core concept is to design a product that can help people without smell, make the "smell" audible and visible, and guard the safety in the home.
Member Honors
National Industrial Competition Excellence Award
2024 Finland AG Design Award and Silver Award of Sino-Finnish International Cultural and Art Exchange Biennale
Third Prize of the 3rd HKDADC Hong Kong Digital Art and Design Competition (Spring Competition)
Third Prize of Asian College Students Creative Design Exhibition
2024 Global Art Chinese Design Award Bronze Award
