Temper
Aggression Detection Watch
Concept Description
In the forensic psychiatry, aggression is an
important topic for the safety of the staff
and patients. Incidents involving aggression
can cause injuries to the staff and fellow
patients. This will make it harder for them
to reintegrate into society. Research shows
that it is possible to detect beforehand when
a patient’s arousal level is rising by using the
conductance of the skin, through sensors.
In order to create awareness of a patient’s
own arousal level, temper was designed,
acting as an extra sense of the body. It will
slowly vibrate in a breathing like pattern
when a patient is in a calm state. If the
arousal level of patient starts to rise, it will
react by vibrating more powerful and thus
lets the wearer know their arousal level.
Inspired by a watch and using vibrations as
feedback, Temper is not noticeable to others
who don’t know the product. The main aim
of this product is to help patients not to lose
their temper.
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Competency Reflecion
I used all competency areas for this
project and had an holistic design process.
I turned my weakness into strenghts by
all the feedback that I received and could
use. Using research papers throughout
the process, helped to make my concept
stronger and be able to move on. You don’t
need to user test everything if someone
else already has done this. It is the first time
I really had value out of these research
papers, instead of using them as inspiration
which I did earlier, I could really validate
assumptions using them and by this
improved my scientific approach.
My fascination for electronics has expanded
by creating and testing my own sensor. I
loved to see the programming come to life
in the final user testing when the device
reacted as it was supposed to be. Creating
a physical 3D model for the watch was
still though for me, but sketching a lot and
searching for inspiration helped to create
a nice looking design. Still I have to find my
visual identity as a product designer. Dealing
with a real problem and talking to user that
will really crave for your product helped to
broaden my view on society and users. The
business and entrepreneurship will come
more after the finalisation of this report as
we have to see where it brings me. I had an
interesting conversation with someone from
Philips who told me to take contact with
them, so we’ll see what it brings me.
