Companions

For my companion project I have three characters: the wingman, mini-me and the yogi.

The wingman:

The wingman goes out with the user to bars and helps her/him pick up boys/girls.

The user will be wearing a wrist band that has a GSR which will communicate with the wingman and let him/her know that the user is psychologically and/or physiologically aroused. The hall effect sensor on the wingman will determine if there are any people close to the user when GSR is on, if there aren’t people around it will make flirty noises and lights to draw attention to the user.

Light sensor will help the wingman to be louder/ more aggressive with its audio/visual responses assuming that the user is in a dark and loud place (a club) to draw attention more effectively.

The wingman will stop interacting once the proper proximity between the user and a person is achieved.

Mini-me

Mini-me is a clone of the user, it experiences what the user experiences physically and responds to the user depending on how the user treats her/his body.

Mini-me has a motion detector and a light sensor and he/she sits on the user’s bed to determine the sleep cycle of the user.

The user is wearing a bracelet that has a pulse sensor and a smoke detector to detect wether the user smokes and exercises.

When the user comes home the data from the bracelet will be transfered to mini-me via a wireless connection.

Depending on how the user treated her/his self mini me posts a status update about the user/ itself(since its a mini version of the user:) on facebook.

The Yogi:

The  user will be wearing a belt with a flex sensor and a bracelet with a pulse sensor or a GSR.

The flex sensor is in charge of determining if the user’s spine is upright, to establish a good flow of energy throughout the body. The pulse montior/ GSR will determine if the user is in a calm state and is breathing correctly.

The yogi has a light sensor  this will alert the user to dim the light to create a better ambience for meditation and it will go off again to alert the user that the meditation is over .

The yogi will give the user directions for her/him to keep a nice spine and to breath properly to achieve a good meditative state.

The yogi will respond with sound only.