In-Class Exercise Feb 2nd – Making Household Objects Social

This post is for the group exercise in class on February 2nd where we had to choose between a hair dryer, a dishwasher or a microwave and give these objects social, critical and feedback capabilities. In my group were Vanessa, Youmna and Conor. Below is a summary of our chosen objects:

Hair Dryer
– functions (high medium low) based on temperature outside
– turns off/vibrates when you get a text message
– lowers the setting based upon the amount of electricity is being used
– notification of overuse for level of health of hair
– multiple functions of hair dryer, besides drying hair, make an app that tells you the other possible functions; website where you can post what you did with your hairdryer that day
– mechanical hair dryer, hand crank
– speaker embedded to tell you if you have a call or text

Dishwasher
– will only run when reaches max capacity of dishes, tell you what else you can add if not at capacity, what you have room for, won’t run unless full- when finished lets everyone in the house know the dishes are clean, makes a sound or indication when clean
– play a song when its running, stops playing when done, relaxing sound