Visor, up!
MY ROLE
Rider’s Empathy
This project is based on my interest of being motorcyclist. From the view point of me as a user, I am expecting an affordable, reliable, and exclusive solution to enhance the riding experience through a redesigned helmet.
THE CHALLENGE
Create tailored protection for motorcyclists
When riders go out in a sunny day, it is impractical to prepare two different tinted visors. But wearing sunglasses between the helmet’s clear visor and the face is not a comfortable or safe solution. It can be more dangerous because the rider’s vision is limited by lenses. As a result, most riders, including myself, will choose a tinted (darkened) visor for all day protection.
While riders enter tunnels, basements or places where light changes dramatically, their pupils take few seconds to readjust the light clearance for better vision. This transition leads to not only a sense of insecurity, but also can be fatal.
THE APPROACH
Multitasking is one of the various fashions in task-process, it diminishes focus due to the working memory that is occupied. Expanding our working memory is not the way to achieve more efficiency in multitasking. It should be the complete reverse. In order to multitask efficiently, I need to decrease the amount of working memory that a task requires. And that’s where cognition-steering comes in.
This research is about how to increase the efficiency of multitasking by designing different cognitive features to steer the user’s behavior. When successfully controlling the user’s attention and mental timelines, human behaviors are altered naturally. And there will be fewer task’s judgmental has to deliberate. In this case, the amount of working memory can be separated more efficiently and effectively. Hence, user performance in multitasking can be improved.
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VISUALISING THE END-TO-END
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DETAILED DESIGN
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PROTOTYPING
Create tailored protection for motorcyclists
When riders go out in a sunny day, it is impractical to prepare two different tinted visors. But wearing sunglasses between the helmet’s clear visor and the face is not a comfortable or safe solution. It can be more dangerous because the rider’s vision is limited by lenses. As a result, most riders, including myself, will choose a tinted (darkened) visor for all day protection.
While riders enter tunnels, basements or places where light changes dramatically, their pupils take few seconds to readjust the light clearance for better vision. This transition leads to not only a sense of insecurity, but also can be fatal.
THE APPROACH
User performance can be improved in multitasking by rescheduling timeline and reprogramming cognition
Multitasking is one of the various fashions in task-process, it diminishes focus due to the working memory that is occupied. Expanding our working memory is not the way to achieve more efficiency in multitasking. It should be the complete reverse. In order to multitask efficiently, I need to decrease the amount of working memory that a task requires. And that’s where cognition-steering comes in.
This research is about how to increase the efficiency of multitasking by designing different cognitive features to steer the user’s behavior. When successfully controlling the user’s attention and mental timelines, human behaviors are altered naturally. And there will be fewer task’s judgmental has to deliberate. In this case, the amount of working memory can be separated more efficiently and effectively. Hence, user performance in multitasking can be improved.
VISUALISING THE END-TO-END
DETAILED DESIGN
PROTOTYPING
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