SDK92 (sept - dec 2002)
This 3 month project was developed for Motorola with Franco Lodato as our visiting faculty. The brief was to look at ubiquitous communication using bionics i.e. designing with nature's patterns in mind or as inspiration. I decided to concentrate on a social circle that has major communication problems: teachers, students and parents. Using a simplified PDA device and RFID tags embedded in the children's ID badge, a teacher's messages and feedback about a child's progress could be easily and safely transferred to the parents device.
As the teacher corrects homework and assessments, real-time messages can be recorded on the student's progress. As the teacher returns to school, all messages get distributed to their appropriate child's badge. The same device is owned by parents who, as the student returns home, listen to messages from the teacher with or without the child's presence, depending on the family dynamics.
I was using the metaphor of the red blood cell in this scenario, and developed the design accordingly. Image to come soon.
