Extensible Use Case Scenarios

1. Birthday

Sending birthday wishes is our main purpose and a starting point for this project. Although we are already sending birthday wishes without this device, our current experience is not an enchanted experience. What happens now is, on someone’s birthday, the people who know about it will start texting Happy Birthday to our Whatsapp group chat tagging the birthday person. Other people learned about it successively and send wishes on the group chat throughout the day. With good intention, this could still be a burden as we see messages and feel the obligation to follow and reply promptly. Also, the messages that are sent are very generic and say no more than happy birthday itself.

The device will allow us to learn about someone’s birthday by seeing the light turned on on that person’s locker. This will initiate them to send messages through their phone and printed directly in the locker so that the message could be more personal. The birthday person will not get any notification other than knowing it’s their own birthday and the light on the locker is on. They only receive the messaged piled up in their locker whenever they open it.

2. Support

Our device is connected with Group Silver Lining by receiving data from them. When someone wishes to cheer up another person in the studio, they can do so by sending supportive messages which will be displayed both on their device and printed on ours.

3. Other special occasions

Other special occasions we vision our device can be implemented are:

“Good job. I enjoy working with you” messages among a project team.

Celebration messages after a phase presentation.

“Hope you feel better” messages when someone’s sick.

“Thank you” notes

4. Use as an intimate messaging platform in this co-working space IoT ecosystem with future applicable devices

These scenarios will be identified through icons we customized for different type of message and archived through either sent from a specific device or slack channel with a different "/___"

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