Fingers, Electrical Currents, and Loud Buzzing Sounds
As a part of our tinkering workshop various tools were used to explore concepts relating to our initial idea of community oriented energy sharing and the immediacy of provoking thinking on energy as a non-commodity. Initially, we planned to stimulate community building in an SME through the BTTN tool: a button that sends out email, alerts, SMSs, and is connected to internet-services. The idea was to stimulate responses through negative reinforcement as users carried out daily activities that could be deemed as “wasteful” by their colleagues. Most community based activities are generated from a common culture, our goal therefore was to integrate a ‘tattletale tool’ to get co-workers to react in a playful way to wasteful consumption through virtual reminders of their behavior in the real world.
Feedback and Gamification: Provoking a Thought Process From Annoyance
Our game “Shut Me Up” provokes players to find quick solutions to annoying sounds through interacting with light in a tangible way. The main concept behind the game is to get players to find a quick solution to the loud buzzing sound which is stimulated by light exposure. In the process of building our game we used the LittleBits kit to transform electronic building blocks into a chain of controls that would enable us to control our vehicle as it roams around with a buzzing sound.