After Light Off
An interactive installation aiming to communicate the mental experience of insomnia sufferers through night.
Overview
Team size: Personal Project
My role: researcher, sketching, prototyping, programming
Tools used: Processing, Arduino Uno, Arduino Pressure Sensor
Duration: 2 weeks
Why I Made This?
As an insomnia sufferer myself, I am frequently misunderstood. Those of my friends who never suffered sleepless could hardly understand my experience and often gave me useless advice. To call for more care of insomnia, I started making an interactive installation to share the experience of being sleepless to non-experiencers.
Background
Learn About Insomnia Sufferers
Questionnaire
Interview
Conclusion
Design
Ideation
The key elements reflecting the mental process of insomnia population which I want to include in my design:
Mindmap & Inspirations
By reflecting on possible representations for my key elements and browsing relative installations, I chose to use:
turning off lamp as representation of sleep,
distortion of the viewer & laughter sound as representation of anxiety about life,
and television’s noise & high frequency noisy sound as representation of anxiety about late sleep.
Sketch
System Flow Chart
Experience Map
Installation
Coding
Modeling
Prepare material
Line up
Test switch
Test pressure sensor
Line up on frame
Pack up hardware
Build up frame
Testing with computer
Final polishing
Final Outcome
