Germinator - Team Dynamic Process

Our team had to go through challenging steps to modify and select information as thoroughly as possible to reach the final stage of making products. The first is that we have to choose the areas we want to work towards so that we can design a model to represent the information we want. The first thing we aim for is water. Water information is endless, from data on the amount of water used daily, the amount of water used, or even how much water is reused. Such information is plentiful, but we feel that the problem is too general and not explicit even though our team has tried several designs to show daily water usage information on the phone, and smartwatches.

That's why we decided to change our direction to health. This issue is particularly suitable for the current world situation when the world faces many fluctuations as today. To be more precise, the COVID 19 epidemic caused the world to panic during the first half of 2020. At first, we had bold ideas about the representation of the disease worldwide. The world through technology charts, holograms, and globes with updated information quickly. Unfortunately, because COVID 19 is a pandemic, such technologies have been developed and developed to update the world as soon as possible, so we have not much choice or unique initiative, different from the world. Thereby, we changed the direction towards showing the BMI of people, thus improving their way of life, creating a better lifestyle for everyone. But this initiative soon encountered an obstacle too big for our group. It is the information that indicates the BMI is too general and inaccurate. Besides, the data on BMI depends on the type of person that grows, and there is no accurate data to combine across the entire user. This obstacle overturned our group completely, leaving us in a dead-end.

But of course, the idea ​​raises people, not from people, so after a long thought and pressure, our team discussed it again to come up with more bold ideas. And finally, we made out mind for the direction of dynamic group. It is about germs.

The germ is known to be harmful to humans. Still, only few people know the information related to it, or rather, very little information is clearly shown to people, this is also one of the reasons for contributing to the COVID pandemic 19. Thus, the dynamic team quickly jumped into this field with many exciting ideas. From creating a virtual reality kit so users can visualize the data on germs around their usual living place, to the glasses which can switch to the bacteria test mode, or even 3D figures show the number of bacteria according to their size based on a ratio of 1 cm: 2000 germ per inch square, etc. But among those ideas, our team found the design we liked and found the best. That's the "germinator" design we currently have. Initially, we looked at the UV light projected to show the amount of bacteria where the light is coming from. We then thought about where to put that light most comfortably and conveniently to use it. We set out the most satisfactory cases, including phones, key chains, rings, watches, etc. But it seems that watches are our best choice because the existing technologies of smartwatches are incredibly advanced, even those that already have their own set of cameras inside. This has sparked our design ideas on these smartwatches. Our next step is just deciding how to set the watch to show the number of bacteria around the user most comfortably and complete way. From there, we began to explore how this data is displayed on a user's smartwatch. Each member of the group has set out many directions, such as creating a separate watch respond to UV lights, creating a link to the clock with a camera, designing extra UV lights to scan through the number of bacteria. , etc. And finally, we agreed to intend to make a strap with a camera that corresponds to the watch. There are UV lights on it, along with adding applications to enable data retrieval. From the camera as well as showing it to the user.

In addition, our team also decided to create materials to create a sense of comfort for users. So we went through several possible options. For example

1. Silicone has excellent high and low-temperature resistance. Silicone straps not only feel comfortable on the skin, but they also are in unique colors for you to choose from. The good thing about the silicone rubber watch band is that it is non-toxic and eco-friendly

2. Silicone rubber polyurethane rubber has higher strength and is less expensive. These straps are perfect for diving, swimming, and other sporting activities because they are very comfortable and flexible

3. Stainless steel is the most popular material used in watches. Not only is it durable, but it is also less expensive than gold, titanium, silver, and platinum.

But because of funding and practical issues, we have decided to choose silicone rubber polyurethane rubber as the design's material to suit many users as well as other elements in our design

Final product

Apendices

Our comunications through out the process

One of our group meeting

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