Krishna Teja
Project Statement
A recent Federal Census (IPP 2009) has estimated that today there are more than a thousand slums in Rio de Janeiro. These have spread rapidly in the past forty years and are now a constant part of this Brazilian city landscape. Despite their number they remain a marginalized part of the city with lack of important infrastructure and susceptible to emergency situations.
Design Proposition
To help improve the infrastructure of these spaces this group proposes the creation of a mobile interactive robot that could float around the slum in a cable, sensing diverse situations and reacting and communicating the population. Emergency Situations would be communicated via color signals, these could be:
• At night: sense movement of the inhabitants, turn a light on and follow that specific person all the way to their house.
• Signal population if there is any police and criminal conflict:
• Possible fire
• Earth Slides/ Heavy Rain
• Health issues
Possible emergency situations
Robot would walk over cables suspended by poles in the area
(A) Yellow: Light to illuminate streets and pedestrians
(B) Green: Fire
(C) Blue: Conflict between police and criminal conflict
(D) Red: Heavy rain, Possible earth slides
Cool and interesting idea. It got me thinking, if I see a green light, for instance, how do I know how immanent the threat is? One thought, could the light pulsate and the frequency provide some indication as to the proximity of the event signaled?
ReplyDeleteJoe
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment. Your suggestion is very valid.
This first proposition considers a very primary communication interaction, the different colors blinking.
I see something like this could also carry sound, displays and other forms of interaction.
I guess the colors make it easy to develop a initial prototype.