Idea - Sleep Seeker

The Sleep Seeker (SS) would be an exhibition piece that would 'force' interaction with the user, even if they do not wish it. This idea would be a fun and unusual piece, that 'users' would get interacted by, rather than interact with.


Sketches of the proposed idea.

The SS would 'seek' out people that showed signs of tiredness (by using face recognition from the cameras) and try to force them to sleep on the bed.

This idea would be able to be prototyped on a small scale, however actual implementation and development would exceed the scope and time-scale of this assignment. Tracking 'tiredness' would be a very hard characteristic to trace, and perhaps would not be a viable option for this implementation. Instead, the SS could track heat and try to 'warm up' people in the room that were coldest. This would be a much easier method and the final artefact would be just as effective.

If heat were to be tracked then the object that interacted with the user could possibly be changed to something more relevant, such as a coat on a coat-stand that would try and get cold users to put it on (to warm them up). This would involve a lot of thermal imaging analysis, and positioning data, so it would seem this idea is still too ambitious for the assignment.

This idea, however, could be scaled down, into a less modularised, stationary object.