TRI-C
In the first half year of my third year I participated in the minor Interactive Environments in Delft. I chose to follow this minor because it was focused on multidisciplinary collaboration with multiple students by designing an interactive and smart technology environment.
Within this minor I wanted to learn more about technology and the power it can bring to a user within a full scale space.
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In the first (individual) part of the minor I designed TRI-C. TRI-C is an interactive panel, at the entrance of the office building AMS, welcoming visitors and communicating information about projects and office workers of the company. TRI-C is located at the entrance of the building. It welcomes the visitor with a welcome message. A visitor can select the person they are meeting, to notify them that you have arrived. The triangle of the person you are visiting is already opened as you arrive and therefore clearly visible. As the visitor selects this person others panels will open and light up. These are panels relevant for the visitor and therefore valuable to their visit. The lights and opening will give a trigger to open panels and read the information. Other panels can be opened or closed with hand gestures close to the triangle. TRI-C gives a visitor the ability to learn more about the company in an interactive way. TRI-C will bring added value to visits by communicating valuable knowledge.
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This project was the first time I executed a project completely alone which was very new to me. From this I really learned how to plan my own design process and most importantly take initiative myself. I had to make all of the design decisions myself and take steps within the iterative process. By creating an iterative process I really focused on being able to throw my own idea away, step aside from it and start again. This was very difficult for me in the beginning since I was really liking the idea I had at first. However after doing this I was able to be more critical at my ideas. I found out the value of this.
Also we had to work for a client and design for a specific building. It was very informative to keep in mind wishes from the clients which forced to look at your user in a different way.
Because the project was individual I had to do all of the Arduino codes myself which was quite challenging. However I managed to create the design I envisioned it which taught me a lot of new skills. Within this project the program Rhino has been used and explored.
Within this individual project I designed for visitors of the building. Within this project I really evaluated how visits currently work and what is missing here. This showed me a how valuable it is to do research about the current situation. We need to know in great detail what it is like right now before we can start designing for possible problems.
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