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Modulette

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Modulette is a play platform for girls ages 3-6 that ecourages construction, customization, and activity through defined dance moves and chalk panels that custom instructions can be inscribed upon. 

The baltic birtch laser inscribed panels are connected by injection molded silicone spacers that provide a sprung floor efect for dancing and moving on.

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Hippo

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Opportunity: Using playful rehabilitation as a source of meaningful social engagement and empowerment for seniors after physical trauma.

Hippo is intended for seniors experiencing depression following physical trauma and their caregiving family. The focus is to promote creative interactions,  that move past memory loss, cognitive degeneration or challenged mobility using their remaining skills. The aim is to provide all the members of the caregiving family a means to understand what the senior is experiencing through their own body, as well as a new way to observe and understand the senior's needs through play.

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Project Tunnel Vision - Systems Design

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Project Tunnel Vision is an investigation into the contemporary playground environment. Upon exploring various problems with modern playgrounds it was learnt that children are not included in the design process, and when they were it was generally a token gesture. The purpose of this systems design is to put children at the front lines of the design process. By consulting children with a number of constructive activities, a context-specific design is created via community engagement. Once a playground has been designed by both the children and the design team, it is shown to the client and goes through several revisions by the client and children co-creation team.

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Burns Bog

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Burns Bog Tour is the proposal for an interactive guide to the Burns Bog in Delta. It uses games and short term goals (such as a scavenger hunt) to engage students in learning about the fascinating biodiversity and history of the bog, and includes features such as a backpack and journal for personalization. Participants of the tour would work towards leveling up, from dragonfly to bear, and would receive a pin with their accomplished level at the end of the tour.

The Burns Bog Tour for the iPad was developed by Jonas Bødtker, Marcela Huerta, Sarah Kozlowski, and Heather Neale. For the most part it uses current iPad technology, but would rely on as of yet non-existent camera capabilities to function.

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Melopad

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  Melopad offers a different experience letting kids making their own music.    It comes with 8 colors of pads which produce 1 of the 8 pitches found in the major scale. The brain of this product is NXT and color sensors are used as the primary sense of device. The user assembles a personalized path. Using the limited number of tiles, user is required to form patterns creating the shortest routes to the right pitch. The concept is letting the user interact with music using the body; with movements such as walking, jumping and circling.

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re:play - a social website

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Re:play is an ecuad.ca sister site for saving and sharing sources used for projects with the creative community.

Co-owner and Architect,
responsible for user experience, personas, scenarios, task flow, information architecture, strategic plan and advocacy.

http://replay.ecuad.ca
http://ecuhub.wordpress.com

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GoDog

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GoDog is was developed as an inexpensive and painless way for arthritic dog owners to play fetch with their dogs. It is operated entirely by stepping down, so the user does not have to bend over or grasp any part of it.

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PECK: Interactive Birdhouse

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PECK was a group project developed with the children of Emily Carr Elementary through a series of workshops and codesign sessions. Through these sessions, we learned that the kids’ favourite creative activities almost always involved building things and animals. We also wanted our object to let them interact with nature and be outdoors.

The project parameters called for us making an interactive object using primarily plywood and repeating shapes.

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Moustache Factory

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With Coral Short's blessing I adapted her Moustache Factory performance for the May 2010 Fuse at the Vancouver Art Gallery. The theme of the night was "Girls! Girls! Girls".

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