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Student Designer
University Product Description and Principal Function(s) The Vie (pronounced vee, French word for life) is a sports glove, of which the main objective is to incorporate today’s technologies to enhance human performance and safety via a simple human-machine-interface. The Vie is aimed towards those who keep active by running/walking but its features can easily be spread to other sports. The Vie is a typical health monitor that also uses GPS technology to do such things as map jog routes, rendezvous with friends, send out emergency distress beacons and more. To keep the sport natural, the input is made via a unique, single hand control interface.Why does the product represent design excellence and why do you believe it deserves an Australian Design Award? Going for a run alone can sometimes be daunting and unsafe in places. The Vie is designed to shed this stigma whilst creating a new, interactive experience.The Vie uses GPS to map users’ journeys, allowing them to plan routes in advance, or discover and record routes for future use. Use it as a personal trainer, speed up running as it vibrates faster, cooldown when it slows. Users can add friends, or VIEmates, and join an online community to compare results, share training programs, safe routes etc. All this can be then transferred via Bluetooth. To encourage camaraderie within the community, the act of adding friends to your VIEmates is the good old fashioned way, by shaking hands. If rendezvousing with a friend was part of the program, shaking their hand indicates contact has been made and can now train together. This allows users to actively share health status with each other, encourage, assist or even vie against each other. If the user is in danger, they can send a stress beacon in case of emergency to all VIEmates in the vicinity, or even straight to the police depending on urgency. A sign of heart failure automatically sends a SOS to the nearest hospital. The Vie’s design is clean but dynamic, the lines flow with the contours of the hand to feel purposeful and ergonomic. Made from waterproof, windproof and breathable fabric with injection moulded EVA housing, the Vie’s main componentry is designed to be carryover for all sizes and handedness to keep production costs down. Jogging and other sports, like bike riding, usually require the freedom of both hands. The interface needed not only to be simple but flawlessly controllable with one hand. Influenced by sign language and communication through hand gestures, the Vie uses strain gauges embedded in the glove to receive input commands from each individual finger. Each finger corresponds to an icon on the E-ink screen and the act of tapping is the selection. The result looks like you are typing or playing the piano, in mid air. Miniature motors then also provide tactile feedback, to feel that you have actually pressed a key, as well as OLEDs to give visual feedback. This can be personalized by programming your own shortcuts through menus made up of a combination of few finger strokes. An interaction with a device that is so intuitive and natural, you will know it like the back of your hand. The possibilities of the Vie are endless. This hand gesture interface can be integrated into many different sporting disciplines to enhance the game. Baseball players can communicate plays with each other on a whole new level, football teams can send out team plays when they put their hands together in a huddle, record hand trajectory in golf and to optimize swing and so on. The Vie increases the safety of jogging alone whilst encouraging a more sociable community. The innovative single hand control interface is convenient and enhances sports and the active lifestyle in general. |
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