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User Specific Mapping: Group Project: “The Clever Little”

User Specific Mapping: Innovate Consolidate Group Project: “The Clever Little”

An AUCB Graphic Design Group project by:  (Click on our names to link to our personal websites)
Jon Cleave  (Me)
Kudzai D 
Peter Smart 
Andrew Talbot

Note: This entire project was done equally, by all of us as a group and as a collective from start to finish.

The project was to create an innovative solution to a problem discovered through primary research. Our topic was based on User Specific Mapping.

Problem:  Stress (Stress is pressure not counterbalanced by support)

WHY STRESS?: Stress is a very universal problem. Anyone can encounter stress and it can be very debilitating

WHY THE I.T. INDUSTRY? I.T. is considered one of the most stressful professions around, in fact 97% of people working in I.T. find their work life stressful on a daily basis.

It is best to think of stress as a set of scales, where pressure is on one side of the scales, and your support (such as your family and hobbies) on the other. When the pressure side is heavier than the support, it leads to stress. Stress will generally lead to illness and time off from work, and can be very difficult to recover from.

Solution: Clever Little™ System

Clever Little™ are a bournemouth based creative eSolutions company dedicated to relieving stress across the I.T. industry.

Our solution revolves around the effective distribution of help requests to an IT department to help spread the pressure and stress over the whole department rather than being focused on an individual member.

By measuring stress through peripherals people are constantly in contact with (such as the keyboard and mouse), the system can see how stressed each member of the department is and send help requests received by the department according to a ratio in order to even out the levels of stress department wide.

How it Works:

Clever Little™ Mouse is one of our stress measuring peripherals for use with the Clever Little™ System. It can measure 3 different indicators of stress of the user.

TEMPERATURE: When a person gets stressed, they go into “Fight or Flight”, this means that the blood moves from their extremities to their torso and central organs. As a result the temperature of their extremities (such as their hands) will reduce. The lower the temperature of their hands the more under pressure a person is.

FORCE: Someone under pressure is more likely to move erratically and use more force in their inputs. By measuring the force of their movements and button presses on the mouse, the higher the force, the more under pressure the user is.

GRIP: The more pressure applied by the users grip, the more under pressure they are.

By measuring all three of these stress indicators, our peripherals provide robust and hard to counterfeit readings. Ensuring a reliable system which is hard to abuse

Final Products: The products produced for our clever little mouse. (Packaging Design, Display Boards and Clever Little Program Interface designed by me, but the whole project was done equally by all of us as a group and as a collective from start to finish.)

Group Website – Online Creative Workbook

Since we spent the entire group project working together on a ‘wall’, we decided to make our workbook like that too as shown below: http://innova.tically.com/