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To detach from infinite rolling
Concept Description
Mental health problem
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for Good Health and Wellbeing aim to ensure a healthy lifestyle and promote the well-being of people of all ages. This goal aims to eradicate a range of diseases and address various stubborn and emerging health issues, especially in today's 21st century where people's mental health issues are often overlooked. This is what we want to warn everyone about. Sometimes the pain caused by mental illness is even more difficult to recover.
Fragmented information content with low impurities
With the rise of self media and the emergence of rolling media, the dissemination of information has become more subjective, with various values and ideas flooding the entire network, making it difficult for everyone to distinguish between right and wrong. In addition, the accelerating pace of overall life in society has led to an increasing speed of media browsing, sometimes unconsciously acquiescing to online violence and accepting various negative thoughts.
The influence of ideas is unavoidable
When you browse through this information, you think you can control your thoughts, but in fact, no matter what, you cannot escape and will inevitably be influenced by it.
To detach from infinite rolling
So we want to wake people up. Some negative comments on the internet, even a casual accusation or verbal abuse, and some opinions that only represent personal colors, accumulate little by little, and accumulate one sentence at a time, which can subtly affect a person. Even if you subconsciously want to delete or block it, it has already left an indelible impact in your mind, and eventually, unconsciously, your thoughts gradually become biased.
Target Users
Net addict
The World Health Organization identifies internet addiction as a disease. The popularization of the internet in China has led to an increase in "internet addiction patients", and those who are addicted to the internet are easily influenced by online speech and lose their ability to think independently.
Heads-down tribe
The characteristics of the "bowing head tribe" are walking and playing with mobile phones, overly relying on the internet, often neglecting security, and easily influenced by erroneous statements.
keyboard warrior
Keyboardist is passionate about creating topics and attracting attention through extreme remarks, essentially serving as a source of spreading rumors.
Device implementation
Preliminary plan
Browsing web pages, simulating the process of people receiving fragmented information
Create a webpage similar to a comment section, starting with a controversial animation introducing fragmented information pages filled with various mixed information
Gesture control, swipe down, flip over, slide right, annoying but nothing happens
Visitors use gestures to control their browsing like flipping through the comment section, causing chaotic information to scroll endlessly. When faced with comments they don't like, they can right swipe to dislike them but nothing happens
Time is over, the ball falls into the balance
When the time is over, all the small balls fall into the balance under the device, causing the balance to tilt. Implied to have an impact on the real world, unable to control one's own thoughts, inevitably leading to an impact
Final plan
Browsing web pages, simulating the process of people receiving fragmented information
Create a webpage similar to a comment section, starting with a controversial animation introducing fragmented information pages filled with various mixed information
Gesture control, swipe down and flip over, right swipe annoying
Visitors use gestures to control their browsing like flipping through the comment section, causing chaotic information to scroll endlessly. When faced with comments they don't like, they can right-click to dislike them
Right swiping annoying, dropping a small ball from behind the screen
When you see comments you don't like, you can right swipe to dislike them, and then a small ball drops from behind the screen, indicating that it has already had an impact on the real world, unrelated to the choices of visitors, and unable to control your own thoughts
Flow path
First, watch the animation, slide it to enter the game and information interface, and use three gesture controls. At the end of the sliding phase, prompt words appear, and the game ends.
Device implementation
The device behind the screen is used to control the ball to fall. When sliding to the right once, the motor rotates to drive the gear to rotate 90 degrees, ensuring that one ball falls each time.
Ball dropping device acrylic frame
First, the dimensions are determined through pre modeling with CAD, and then customized using acrylic cutting
3D printing gears
Similarly, pre modeling and dimensioning are done through CAD, and then printed using a school printer
42BYGH48S stepper motor
We have chosen the one with higher torque in the 42 stepper motor series, which can resist the friction between gears and prevent jamming
Plastic shell hollow ball
Choose black balls to represent negative reviews
45mm * 20 hollow small balls are lightweight and elastic
4988 driver board and CNC shield
The CNC shield can accommodate 4 A4988 drive boards and drive 4 42 stepper motors. The A4988 driver board can process signals from the computer, convert them into interface signals suitable for driving motors, and is responsible for data transmission between the motherboard and the motor. Meanwhile, the driver board can ensure the safety of the power supply to the 42 stepper motor.
Arduino uno R3
Same usage as the nano board used in class, but with more features and power options. Connect it with the above two to form the command end of the motor drive, which forms the control end with the computer. The programmed electrical signal is transmitted to the A4988 drive board, and the drive motor rotates at a certain angle according to the programming instructions.
Technical solution
Kinect gesture collection
Processing Arduino interoperability, linking motor outputs
We use the method of recognizing the trajectory of human arm movements to run the program. We use Kinect to collect the movements of the swinging arm and transmit the signals to Processing, where the images provide different feedback based on the human body's movements.
Program screen projection
The main program runs on the computer and then projects the screen onto the classroom TV for better visual effects.
Processing Arduino interoperability, linking motor outputs
After the changes in the screen are executed in Processing, a signal is sent to the Arduino CNC Shield board to drive the motor to rotate, causing the small ball above the device to fall with the rolling of the wheel, indicating that even if these negative comments are deleted, they have an indelible impact on our minds.
Set against the backdrop of the Fat Cat incident, leading animation
We take the "Fat Cat" incident on the internet as the background, adopt a pixel art style design, and use a cute art style to highlight how malicious comments from people in the comment section will accumulate and have an impact on a person.
Introducing unlimited scrolling information pages
Mars.com is an interactive platform that simulates the Internet to display multiple views, reflect the complexity of the network, mix positive and negative comments, reflect the power of public opinion, and demonstrate the influence of public opinion through negative comments.
Animation display
Achievement display