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Could the phone vibration be used as a warning signal at a loud party where ringing might not be heard? Where ringing cannot be heard, vibrations can be felt because people tend to keep phones close to their body in crowds (...unless it's in a purse).
E.g.: If you, a party-goer, need help escaping harassment or discomfort, you can press a button that sends a vibration to a friend at the party to signal for help. The goal is to get rid of overt, explicit gestures that allow a predator or attacker to know that you are trying to escape.
What other interactions can we imagine with phone vibrations?
Inspired by Xiang 'Anthony' Chen's Nudge.
https://twitter.com/lightblubhotel/status/1182769820908974080
My love for Twitter runs deep. Many associate Twitter with memes and politics, but at its best, I think Twitter is a public, interactive journal where your thoughts are given immediate visibility. This portfolio of day-to-day thoughts makes you discoverable to like-minded individuals that otherwise would have never known about you.
Friends and professors I have talked to agree with me that micro-blogs like Twitter can give a different, but equal, platform for broadcasting your thoughts to find like-minded individuals, but they (rightfully) fear backlash if their content taken out of context and/or dangerous internet stalkers. Could we design a semi-permeable online journaling platform that allows like-minded strangers to discover an account, but which is not completely open to the wide public?
There are all kinds of digital sleep aids nowadays — white noise machines, the Sleep With Me Podcast, nightlights, etc. We also read with the lights on before sleeping.
Falling asleep is a subconscious act. Yet turning these devices off before we sleep requires a conscious realization that we are falling asleep and a conscious decision to press the power off button (at least, I have to sit up, twist around, etc, in order to turn lights off — lots of physical maneuvering), disrupting the flow of events. Can we collect data that tracks biosignals that we are falling asleep (e.g. heart rate, or sound of breathing) and dims our lights + turns off our devices for us?
Inspired partially by Edward Wang's medical biosensors.