Purpose

Our team is going to explore a common social scenario; waiting to cross the street at a stop light. We are interested in transforming what is normally a boring waste of time into a fun playful experience. Our goal is to create an augmented object to allow pedestrians to interact with other pedestrians on the other side of the street.

When waiting at the light and pressing the push-to-walk button, people are often bored and inpatient. We are going to create a gamified button instead which pedestrians can challenge each other to see who can press the button the fastest within the limited time. We believe that adding this simple tug-of-war type game will make waiting to cross the street more entertaining.