Creating haptic emotions for people who are deafblind

TOOLKIT Design Research, Product Design, Coding, Video creation

TEAM Three other students with a mix of design and engineering backgrounds

MY ROLE Led the research; programmed the actuation patterns; co-designed the product including sketching, prototyping and 3D modeling; co-designed the presentation; filmed, designed, and edited the video

Challenge

During a 6 week project as a part of the Harvard Master in Design Engineering program I was tasked with creating a product under the theme of “textiles”. This problem area was selected because of personal connections to the blind community and knowing that people who are deafblind have an inherently tactile life experience, which is conducive to the theme.

Details

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