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The Hugging Hand is a mechanical toy designed to be used by kids in schools to relieve stress. In its first iteration the Hugging Hand was powered using batteries. The Hugging Hand works when a person places pressure on the handheld device by squeezing their fingers; this causes a one-to-one ratio of pressure to be brought down on the back of their hand this function and allows for someone to feel comforted--as if their hand is being held. The fact that the Hugging Hand was electronically powered was a feature we thought could be improved so we made it our goal to make an improved version of the Hugging Hand that while still having the same function as its predecessor will no longer require batteries.Research shows that holding hands and using a weighted blanket can relieve stress and anxiety and while it would be nice for students to sit in class under a weighted blanket holding hands with their classmate this scenario is in fact unrealistic.
The bubble is a contraption that showcases a man isolated from society. This man has spent months alone in his apartment isolated from the world during a global pandemic. He feels a “bubble” around himself because of the time he has been forced to spend alone. He forgets how to interact with those around him and feels people staying away from him.
Short story and visual representation inspired by Axolotl by Julio Cortazar about societal cohesion and what makes us alive.
Some feedback Amar gave me was to think about my project in a more deconstructed sense. I will do this by going over my story and finding the big message(s) it sends and working off of those. Some other feedback he gave me was to think more about "the more you use it the more the color changes", like the led becomes brighter and warmer the more you use it. Use more bleak/sad/ugly colors at first and then turn them into something beautiful. He also said to be very radical with the project and to try to see how the use of the pencil means and how it relates to the abstraction.
What are the RGB values of these colors
red (150, 0, 0)
pink (150,50,100)
yellow (255, 255, 0)
orange (265, 155, 0)
green (0, 150, 0)
light blue (67, 84, 90)
dark blue (0, 0, 150)
black (128, 128, 128,)