Home Wreckers - REM

Vision

Our project aims to use objects within bedroom context as transactive memories and emotional deposits to de-stress users before they go to sleep and prepare them for the next day. We believe it is pretty common in today's fast paced world for individuals to feel stressed and overwhelmed. Today sound sleeping is an issue and helping individuals to reflect their emotions before going to bed and feeling relieved is helpful for their mental state. Additionally, we aim to motivate them for the incoming day and lead them towards positive mental change.

Team Roles

Visionary - Chelsie Corbett

Developers - Olivia Roy, Corey Williams, Shenghui Jia

Designers - Anna Lawn, Sarthak Giri, Chelsie Corbett

Liasons - Cansu Tanatmis, Woo Kim, John Vanderveen

Storyboard

Design Process

As a group we decided to ideate around dreams and our ability to process our emotions, moods and stress in our sleep. We then decided to explore these ideas using objects in the bedroom as transactive memory and emotional deposits to enable users to clear their heads before they sleep. 

Below are the photos from our ideation process with a brief description following it. 

We discussed several themes: sharing & exploration of dreams, goal accomplishment, stress & anxiety, status of things, to-do list & reminders, etc. We decided to rate our themes and pick favorite ones, then we re-discussed and narrowed down our ideas. We concluded in moving forward with transactive memory and emotional deposits within bedroom. 

We divided into 3 groups to develop 3 different prototypes. First prototype interacts with mobile objects to input emotion and play correlating sounds to encourage reflection. Second prototype consists of moving things into a jar to represent things on users' mind and setting them aside as users sleep. Third one combines inputs from first and second prototypes to reflect and motivate users after sleep. All three connected devices are around pre & post sleeping moods of the user.

Final Prototypes

Prototype 1 - Mood Mobile

See Mood Mobile individual gallery page for more information: http://integratedinnovation.xsead.cmu.edu/gallery/projects/home-wreckers-mood-mobile 

Prototype 2 - Off-Your-Mind Jar

See Off-Your-Mind Jar individual gallery page for more information: http://integratedinnovation.xsead.cmu.edu/gallery/projects/home-wreckers-off-your-mind-jar 

Prototype 3 - Rise & Shine

See Rise & Shine individual gallery page for more information: http://integratedinnovation.xsead.cmu.edu/gallery/projects/home-wreckers-awake-with-reflection-alarm-8f04d5c2-baec-4aae-b3e3-be429cfcb5f7 

Video of Final Product

Reflection on Success

From this project, we learned that making connected products in a short timeline is very difficult. We feel that we worked well in a team, and although our products do not work perfectly, we accomplished a lot in a two weeks. 

See our individual gallery pages for more reflections.