Sui - Stress Reliever 水
We wanted to tackle stress in people's everyday lives. Working with how to make people slow down, and how to create time for your personal space. That's why we created Sui, a multimodal experience where the idea is to squeeze the ball and with this haptic interaction control the sounds of the wooden box.
Looking at our alternatives, we chose to focus on music and sound, as these have been known to help people get into a certain moods. However, we didn’t just want to play some slow music and hope for people to calm down. Instead, wanted to create more of a multi-modal experience. Touch seemed like an interesting choice to explore, as this is an essential part of our calming more intimate lives.
The idea is to to squeeze the ball, and with this haptic interaction you will be able to control the sounds of the box. Pushing it will make the waves roll in, and then releasing the grip making the waves roll out again. What we hope to achieve here is a more direct interaction with these calming sounds, as well as more parts of your senses slowing down to accommodate this different pace. Creating a more powerful impact.
If you are interested in how we created this device, check out our project at https://www.instructables.com/Sui-Stress-Reliever-%E6%B0%B4/
