https://sptravishsu.com Travis Hsu Sat, 26 Oct 2019 22:37:46 +0000 https://sptravishsu.com en https://sptravishsu.com/CV Mon, 22 Jul 2019 04:30:16 +0000 Travis Hsu https://sptravishsu.com/CV Hello, I’m empathetic and push for honest, inclusive &amp; meaningful designs. I’m a big-picture systems thinker with an obsession for crafting fidelity. I’m detail-oriented, organized, and enjoys problem-solving. I drive exclusive results through consistent and motivated innovation and results-driven ideas. I love prototyping and iteratively ideating until the best solution arises. RESUME travishsu182@gmail.com https://sptravishsu.com/Mental-Mapping-Your-City Wed, 20 Mar 2019 01:08:49 +0000 Travis Hsu https://sptravishsu.com/Mental-Mapping-Your-City Mental-Mapping Your City This piece challenges the authority of data collected by the Internet of Things (IOT) in modern society. It evokes the personal narratives that urban inhabitants form as they move through the city, focusing on the depth and intensity of their relationship with their surroundings along the daily commute and the embedded values therein. By using only the body to power the mechanics of mapping, the rider re-establishes their relationship with the commuting experience. The analog records document sentimental interactions with our city and reclaim ownership of our stories in sound. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1c22a11c65233212ed944aadc0d75647e234c5c1dd933fe574c2c6ee9234f300/DSC_8616.jpg" data-mid="41968784" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1c22a11c65233212ed944aadc0d75647e234c5c1dd933fe574c2c6ee9234f300/DSC_8616.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0c88011648df41f14868fbc6e31fd488910ae2f397da82a1f9bf4247db357730/DSC_8614.jpg" data-mid="41968783" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0c88011648df41f14868fbc6e31fd488910ae2f397da82a1f9bf4247db357730/DSC_8614.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/44ed0b1b4da39e5ff1c066499781ccd50f518617476f097fc721424e15ec2457/IMG_9808-copy.jpg" data-mid="42022571" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/44ed0b1b4da39e5ff1c066499781ccd50f518617476f097fc721424e15ec2457/IMG_9808-copy.jpg" /> CHALLENGE Efficient and exciting alternative possibilities can be embedded within the city’s transit infrastructure Chicago is a heavily populated city and is continuously growing. In order to accommodate this growth, we must redefine idle spaces such as the space underneath elevated railways, tunnels and&nbsp; highway ramp, etc. <img width="3264" height="2448" width_o="3264" height_o="2448" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/891ba3ae46f3e61c451c0a51dbf468c07fbf9dc1f54723db5a3437e85cec67a5/IMG_8065.JPG" data-mid="53005948" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/891ba3ae46f3e61c451c0a51dbf468c07fbf9dc1f54723db5a3437e85cec67a5/IMG_8065.JPG" />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Why addressing the issue of idle spaces is important? I think the idle spaces in the city segregate communities and jeopardize the harmonious coexistence between people and their environments just like highways do. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<img width="2791" height="2146" width_o="2791" height_o="2146" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/415d36e2ad24d8a23f49bad954f2cec6ad617cfbdb4171dc9942ed7650d34733/Cross-bronx-expressway--1957.jpg" data-mid="53006440" border="0" data-scale="50" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/415d36e2ad24d8a23f49bad954f2cec6ad617cfbdb4171dc9942ed7650d34733/Cross-bronx-expressway--1957.jpg" />Cross Bronx Expressway APPROACH “A conviviality society means autonomous and creative interact among persons, and the interact of person with their environment.” —Ivan Illich Our imaginations have been industrially conditioned to conceive only what can be molded into an engineered system of social habits that fit the logic of large-scale production. PICKING UP THE PIECES In my view of the phenomena related to city planning, the most unpredictable factor is the “mental value” of a city to its inhabitants, by which I mean how the individual personally interacts with and understands the public infrastructure. by which I mean how the individual personally interacts with and understands the public infrastructure. <img width="2999" height="2107" width_o="2999" height_o="2107" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6697aac70cd7d069f374060a08eb27777b67bd3b779e24ca80ac99865288a2f3/BIke_1.gif" data-mid="53069943" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6697aac70cd7d069f374060a08eb27777b67bd3b779e24ca80ac99865288a2f3/BIke_1.gif" /> CASE STUDY How city inhabitants interact with their city’s infrastructures? The trolley pusher in Manila, Philippines. The individual pushes their apparatus on segments of railways to earn money from passengers for daily expenses. They must know all the train schedules to avoid fatal impacts from any on-coming locomotives. They are not just dodging traffic, but also death. Why take such high risks to work and live alongside the railways? Areas adjacent to train tracks are usually neglected by developers, and they are where the poorest inhabitants gather in Manila. The pushers believe they can get mediate poverty by using existing public infrastructure themselves. <img width="1658" height="1080" width_o="1658" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/16335fe43e99e77b59627ab9adda5ce131b66b46161ee91d98e4761850111c19/Trolly-pusher--Manila--2018-1.jpg" data-mid="53006642" border="0" data-scale="50" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/16335fe43e99e77b59627ab9adda5ce131b66b46161ee91d98e4761850111c19/Trolly-pusher--Manila--2018-1.jpg" /><img width="1628" height="1080" width_o="1628" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7844fdc323f543a70c31b818826e26a891c42ab4831827468d9ffdac545a89ee/Trolly-pusher--Manila--2018-2.jpg" data-mid="53006640" border="0" data-scale="49" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7844fdc323f543a70c31b818826e26a891c42ab4831827468d9ffdac545a89ee/Trolly-pusher--Manila--2018-2.jpg" /> Trolly pusher, Manila In Chicago, Jack Meyer has assigned mental value to a space adjacent to the CTA Red Line tracks. Meyer owns a property below the elevated Red Line tracks in the Boystown neighborhood. The site, a byproduct of public infrastructure, had been a graveyard for abandoned cars. When the CTA offered use of the site, Meyer jumped at the opportunity. He has turned it into an outdoor lounge where he and his friends drink coffee in the morning, cocktails in the evening. Occasionally he has friends over for barbecues and parties, but the ambient noise limits conversation. “Sunday is best because there are the fewest trains,” he says. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<img width="1280" height="850" width_o="1280" height_o="850" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4ceab39bfaa9413153c565939dc57fe60ac24effe7cd43e664934fd581adcea3/yah_space-jackmeyer3-600.jpg" data-mid="53006724" border="0" data-scale="50" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4ceab39bfaa9413153c565939dc57fe60ac24effe7cd43e664934fd581adcea3/yah_space-jackmeyer3-600.jpg" />Grassy oasis beneath the Red Line tracks in Boystown VISION “It is important that these urban elements are not hermetically designed into precise and final detail but present an open-ended order. Urban inhabitants should be able to actively form their own stories and create new activities.” —Kevin Lynch In each of the two cases, the inhabitant’s mental value of public infrastructures seamlessly coordinates with and improves the dynamics of city planning, beyond the data collected by IoT sensors. So, I wanted to design a machine that would enable me to generate my own mental values of my commute in the city and, at the same time,&nbsp; reclaim my authorship as an inhabitant and diminish the sense of alienation brought on by technology. RETHINK The quantitative data about human behaviors that IoT sensors collect does not capture the sense of sincerity, exclusivity, or ownership that may motivate atypical behaviors. New technologies are invented to provide improved solutions for city planning. Thus, the Internet of Things (IOT) has become a popular technology, set to be an answer for better urban planning. The benefits are clear: how it enables prompt and efficient innovation in product design; how it lessens the need for real-world, physical effort; and how it is, in a way, its own reward—the more it is used, the better it becomes. I even believe it’s a bonus for the ways we compose our surroundings. Still, I often feel left out – it’s rather an emotion than a fact. Are these raw data still mine? Or are they merely a result of this new technology? I want to reclaim my authorship, to reduce this sense of alienation. BACKWARDS FOR WIDE VIEW I am a designer and I want to provide an object in such a way that it gives room for three related ‘movements’: mapping, learning, shaping. First, people should be able to acquire a genuine mental map of their urban environment. Second, people should be able to learn how to navigate in this environment by training. Third, people must be able to operate and act upon their environment. A legible mental map gives people an important sense of emotional security, it is the framework for communication and conceptual organization, and heightens the depth and intensity of everyday human experience. <img width="2999" height="1031" width_o="2999" height_o="1031" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7b7e6e413a2772f795385d532a026043e5dde8bb654a96bdb6c806523e86efa0/Bike_2.gif" data-mid="53070006" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7b7e6e413a2772f795385d532a026043e5dde8bb654a96bdb6c806523e86efa0/Bike_2.gif" /> FROM INACCURATE TO PRECISE A Better Understanding of Mapping Polynesian stick charts are a recording of information exclusive to the user. Navigators made the charts from thin strips of coconuts or pandanus root. They depicted sea currents around the shape of coast lines in geometric patterns. An interesting part of the charts is that they shift and translate so much information into their physical structure that they are meaningful only to the particular navigators who built them. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<img width="500" height="418" width_o="500" height_o="418" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e3acb598b06f3f6679e4fbc7a23c17b8dc49bafb226d683c16bf39aab2585d03/stckchrt1.jpg" data-mid="53006799" border="0" data-scale="67" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/500/i/e3acb598b06f3f6679e4fbc7a23c17b8dc49bafb226d683c16bf39aab2585d03/stckchrt1.jpg" /> Polynesian Sticks Charts These recordings were not made for navigation but for storytelling. Their tactile visualization enabled the Inuit to sequentially describe and subsequently recognize the contours, islands, and glaciers of the coastline. The gaps and shapes represented the conditions of the harsh environment such as brash ice and violent storm. <img width="1306" height="1000" width_o="1306" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cc10799b34309ff17ef4fced2e04052a65ca74378a0cb448212bb0b529d60c39/inuitcartography.jpg" data-mid="53006849" border="0" data-scale="61" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cc10799b34309ff17ef4fced2e04052a65ca74378a0cb448212bb0b529d60c39/inuitcartography.jpg" /> Tactile Visualization Wood Such techniques were simple but carried surprisingly strong significance, formed by their makers. Hence, I decided to subvert the contemporary idea of technology by using the human body to power a bicycle that, in turn, captures my mental value of the city of Chicago through audio recording. The outcome is an intimate description of the surroundings and my own physical conditions. FROM AMBIGUOUS TO OBVIOUS I designed the machine to challenge the authority of data collected by IoT in modern society. It evokes the personal narratives that urban inhabitants form as they move through the city, focusing on the depth and intensity of their relationship with their surroundings along the daily commute and the mental value thereof. We can trace throughout the past various methods that humans have invented to record their surroundings. The fidelity of those methods’ outcomes—“recordings”—were not restricted to the capabilities of technology. Rather, recordings were primarily a tool for people to re-form their relation to their surroundings. In the same way, I wanted my project not to be limited by the capabilities of technology, but to connect the action to the final purpose. <img width="986" height="1232" width_o="986" height_o="1232" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fc7a56b735f6f66dc4d6dee2c2bcdb320525679c90ed8d7b06a85a5b09498dac/Untitled-1.jpg" data-mid="45792613" border="0" data-scale="48" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/986/i/fc7a56b735f6f66dc4d6dee2c2bcdb320525679c90ed8d7b06a85a5b09498dac/Untitled-1.jpg" />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <img width="2938" height="3672" width_o="2938" height_o="3672" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1a2343b5d721861db0e3a87028f2d3166f23ee8c2b7f40e9542b49c2196ebc9b/IMG_4442.jpg" data-mid="45792614" border="0" data-scale="48" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1a2343b5d721861db0e3a87028f2d3166f23ee8c2b7f40e9542b49c2196ebc9b/IMG_4442.jpg" /> <img width="1188" height="1485" width_o="1188" height_o="1485" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4b3914d14217501618580ca8bd8f611a0bdf5edfcea2cb80349f3c0260e2c457/record-with-grooves.jpg" data-mid="45792618" border="0" data-scale="48" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4b3914d14217501618580ca8bd8f611a0bdf5edfcea2cb80349f3c0260e2c457/record-with-grooves.jpg" />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<img width="2250" height="2813" width_o="2250" height_o="2813" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dc7d1ef07316ba7bdac6cb5167f3066a158558eaec23f6100b6df16feb5e5ac2/cone.jpg" data-mid="45792617" border="0" data-scale="48" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dc7d1ef07316ba7bdac6cb5167f3066a158558eaec23f6100b6df16feb5e5ac2/cone.jpg" /> DETAILED DESIGN Why Analog? Why analog recording in sound? In addition to documenting the user’s direct interaction with the city, it allows the user to reclaim ownership of their story through the capture of sound. From the principle of the gramophone, the horn collects ambient noises, and then translates the uneven air currents’ impact onto thin film at the base. Once the film’s oscillations occur in multiple frequencies, the contact phone converts the oscillations into electrical currents and activates the stylus, engraving the spiral grooves on a blank record. The analog recording process, like the mental value of public infrastructures, is the direct result of personal, physical interaction with the urban space. It becomes a metaphor for the user’s hand writing their story—the stylus is a pen, grooves the ink, and blank records are the paper. IMPACT Induced Demand By using only the body to power the mechanics of mapping, the user can re-establish their relationship with the commuting experience. Biking in the city of Chicago allows inhabitants to capture the most honest and dynamic moments of every corner and distinctive neighborhood they pass through in the city. The records are exclusive to their makers, and yet sharable with others to whom the makers might wish to tell their stories. In city planning, the value of IoT sensor data is unmistakable and increasingly significant; but the machine emphasizes the importance of the personal interactions that define people’s mental value of the place they live. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2222147e4285eafb044c4e8416e6000679926ade2d27076b6359fe4247bc92c6/190523_SAIC_Block37_7917.jpg" data-mid="53059306" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2222147e4285eafb044c4e8416e6000679926ade2d27076b6359fe4247bc92c6/190523_SAIC_Block37_7917.jpg" /> &nbsp;SAIC (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) DESIGN SHOW 2019 RESOURCES: “Manila's 'Trolley Boys'.” BBC News, BBC Bauer, Andrea. “A Grassy Oasis beneath the Red Line Tracks in Boystown.” Chicago Reader Polynesian Stick Charts “Tactile Visualisations: Inuit Wood Maps.” Visualising Data MORE PROJECTS ︎ https://sptravishsu.com/Visor-up Mon, 01 Jul 2019 23:12:55 +0000 Travis Hsu https://sptravishsu.com/Visor-up 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. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; THE CHALLENGE Create tailored protection for motorcyclists &nbsp; 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 cognitionMultitasking 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. <img width="2999" height="2107" width_o="2999" height_o="2107" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/21cef96e3f85c8f3903555973492da306ea6bc93366d70bb38bd667ce8d7ecae/Helmet_1.jpg" data-mid="53070030" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/21cef96e3f85c8f3903555973492da306ea6bc93366d70bb38bd667ce8d7ecae/Helmet_1.jpg" /> VISUALISING THE END-TO-END <img width="3948" height="2526" width_o="3948" height_o="2526" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/635104d04a5a27603a663819113f583a837b66b96faa56f04693c7f7b3dabc1c/Helmet_2.gif" data-mid="53070090" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/635104d04a5a27603a663819113f583a837b66b96faa56f04693c7f7b3dabc1c/Helmet_2.gif" /> DETAILED DESIGN <img width="2999" height="1031" width_o="2999" height_o="1031" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cbaa49d921fc17aca75a0cbd8d78a2aa1aa3412fd28901d698b91f1eb0bd6ff6/Helmet_3.gif" data-mid="53070094" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cbaa49d921fc17aca75a0cbd8d78a2aa1aa3412fd28901d698b91f1eb0bd6ff6/Helmet_3.gif" /> PROTOTYPING &nbsp; &nbsp; Two particular cases of how city inhabitants interact with their city’s infrastructures demonstrate the importance of mental value and are key to my thesis research. First, the trolley pusher in Manila, Philippines. The individual pushes their apparatus on segments of railways to earn money from passengers for daily expenses. They must know all the train schedules to avoid fatal impacts from any on-coming locomotives. They are not just dodging traffic, but also death. Why take such high risks to work and live alongside the railways? Areas adjacent to train tracks are usually neglected by developers, and they are where the poorest inhabitants gather in Manila. The pushers believe they can get mediate poverty by using existing public infrastructure themselves. In the second case, in Chicago, Jack Meyer has assigned mental value to a space adjacent to the CTA Red Line tracks. Meyer owns a property below the elevated Red Line tracks in the Boystown neighborhood. The site, a byproduct of public infrastructure, had been a graveyard for abandoned cars. When the CTA offered use of the site, Meyer jumped at the opportunity. He has turned it into an outdoor lounge where he and his friends drink coffee in the morning, cocktails in the evening. Occasionally he has friends over for barbecues and parties, but the ambient noise limits conversation. “Sunday is best because there are the fewest trains,” he says. In each of the two cases, the inhabitant’s mental value of public infrastructures seamlessly coordinates with and improves the dynamics of city planning, beyond the data collected by IoT sensors. So, I wanted to design a machine that would enable me to generate my own mental values of my commute in the city and, at the same time,&nbsp; reclaim my authorship as an inhabitant and diminish the sense of alienation brought on by technology. “It is important that these urban elements are not hermetically designed into precise and final detail but present an open-ended order. Urban inhabitants should be able to actively form their own stories and create new activities.”&nbsp;—Kevin Lynch IOT I designed the machine to challenge the authority of data collected by IoT in modern society. It evokes the personal narratives that urban inhabitants form as they move through the city, focusing on the depth and intensity of their relationship with their surroundings along the daily commute and the mental value thereof. We can trace throughout the past various methods that humans have invented to record their surroundings. The fidelity of those methods’ outcomes—“recordings”—were not restricted to the capabilities of technology. Rather, recordings were primarily a tool for people to re-form their relation to their surroundings. In the same way, I wanted my project not to be limited by the capabilities of technology, but to connect the action to the final purpose. “Our imaginations have been industrially conditioned to conceive only what can be molded into an engineered system of social habits that fit the logic of large-scale production.” —Ivan Illich Polynesian stick charts are a recording of information exclusive to the user. Navigators made the charts from thin strips of coconuts or pandanus root. They depicted sea currents around the shape of coast lines in geometric patterns. An entrancing part of the charts is that they shift and translate so much information into their physical structure that they are meaningful only to the particular navigators who built them. The other method is called Inuit wood maps. These recordings were not made for navigation but for storytelling. Their tactile visualization enabled the Inuit to sequentially describe and subsequently recognize the contours, islands, and glaciers of the coastline. The gaps and shapes represented the conditions of the harsh environment such as brash ice and violent storm. Such techniques were simple but carried surprisingly strong significance, formed by their makers. Hence, I decided to subvert the contemporary idea of technology by using the human body to power a bicycle that, in turn, captures my mental value of the city of Chicago through audio recording. The outcome is an intimate description of the surroundings and my own physical conditions. PROCESSWhy Analog? Why analog recording in sound? In addition to documenting the user’s direct interaction with the city, it allows the user to reclaim ownership of their story through the capture of sound. From the principle of the gramophone, the horn collects ambient noises, and then translates the uneven air currents’ impact onto thin film at the base. Once the film’s oscillations occur in multiple frequencies, the contact phone converts the oscillations into electrical currents and activates the stylus, engraving the spiral grooves on a blank record. The analog recording process, like the mental value of public infrastructures, is the direct result of personal, physical interaction with the urban space. It becomes a metaphor for the user’s hand writing their story—the stylus is a pen, grooves the ink, and blank records are the paper. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;MORE PROJECTS︎ https://sptravishsu.com/Reinterpretation-of-hand-tools Mon, 01 Jul 2019 22:47:56 +0000 Travis Hsu https://sptravishsu.com/Reinterpretation-of-hand-tools Reinterpretation of hand tools Will hand tools disappear or be redefined; offering new and different user experiences? Hand tools propel our imagination into physical outcomes. From primitive age to modern society, the evolution of hand tools has represented the transformation of human desires. That is to say, hand tools are the key to understanding human evolution. When people pursue high quality commodities and are willing to spend lots of money on what is called “perfection” today, how many people acknowledge the actual manufacturing process uses mass production from machine or craftsmanship from low-tech hand tools? If hand tools were replaced by machines someday because the finishing did not fulfill expectations anymore, what would the next generation of hand tools be? Will they disappear or be given different purposes? As a designer, I want to rethink different body movements in hand tool operations, taking them out of the hand, using different parts of the body according to the operation being performed. &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <img width="5926" height="3334" width_o="5926" height_o="3334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/16a9e0a85d373ced572cc35176342cc31feb148ef70f460acfb809f12a34ea9d/handtools1.jpg" data-mid="45859980" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/16a9e0a85d373ced572cc35176342cc31feb148ef70f460acfb809f12a34ea9d/handtools1.jpg" /> With commodities today being immersed and driven by the idea of mass production and precision, more and more hand tools are being replaced by machines, computers, and robots. What is the new definition of hand tool in coming generations? I'm rethinking different body movements in hand tool operations which can achieve the same tasks as current conventional hand tools, taking them out of the hand, using different parts of the body according to the operation being performed. TOOL THAT STABILIZE <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b0d7329beb0366bbcce669282cbf0d0de628bb34c9ea1199f72f7bc851dc69f0/pliers.jpg" data-mid="45860910" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b0d7329beb0366bbcce669282cbf0d0de628bb34c9ea1199f72f7bc851dc69f0/pliers.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/55f2ffc53e5c9709f1abaf3c2da734bd1ea93fb4441583bc46e83e20e452980b/handtool1-2.jpg" data-mid="45872433" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/55f2ffc53e5c9709f1abaf3c2da734bd1ea93fb4441583bc46e83e20e452980b/handtool1-2.jpg" /> <img width="3323" height="4154" width_o="3323" height_o="4154" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/153eb2910a8a03ad5af296d7a955a148f2b8e186317fd58e6c51b8721bc28337/handtool1-4.jpg" data-mid="45873516" border="0" data-scale="49" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/153eb2910a8a03ad5af296d7a955a148f2b8e186317fd58e6c51b8721bc28337/handtool1-4.jpg" />&nbsp;&nbsp;<img width="2593" height="3240" width_o="2593" height_o="3240" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8f4d07b2923ef368454140004f09ce7d01d3018c8c6865c9851b806d8373f277/handtool1-3.jpg" data-mid="45873518" border="0" data-scale="49" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8f4d07b2923ef368454140004f09ce7d01d3018c8c6865c9851b806d8373f277/handtool1-3.jpg" /> This tool can be set in the armpit. With the natural gripping force between torso and arm, it provides enough grip to hold objects that in the working process. Users can work in different postures to decrease muscle fatigue, on the other hand, increase their working duration. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; TOOL THAT DEVIDES <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fac29c843334633bd696e9f0dc17775c661da99f6fe0ea4abd739c52360202ae/handtool2.jpg" data-mid="45873939" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fac29c843334633bd696e9f0dc17775c661da99f6fe0ea4abd739c52360202ae/handtool2.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eef78965b6cd0ccecfc31ca6fc67adcd704c27a83dd6cbd648881de4de648de1/handtool2-1.jpg" data-mid="45874009" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eef78965b6cd0ccecfc31ca6fc67adcd704c27a83dd6cbd648881de4de648de1/handtool2-1.jpg" /> <img width="2785" height="3481" width_o="2785" height_o="3481" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/09902cbfec9129aa919f8b735bd692d452016be1058e5b6d3194d2243b1e91cd/handtool2-2.jpg" data-mid="45874240" border="0" data-scale="49" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/09902cbfec9129aa919f8b735bd692d452016be1058e5b6d3194d2243b1e91cd/handtool2-2.jpg" />&nbsp; <img width="2896" height="3619" width_o="2896" height_o="3619" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fb22b507b184346b5f2086bb75b158666fc2366352a75cdb34baff306515f7a2/handtool2-3.jpg" data-mid="45874239" border="0" data-scale="49" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fb22b507b184346b5f2086bb75b158666fc2366352a75cdb34baff306515f7a2/handtool2-3.jpg" /> This is a&nbsp; tool that uses forearm operation to cut out a tapered shape. By using the elbow to press down the pad, the pivot extrudes. Grasping the handle in front of the device, &nbsp;then use the forearm to rotate the entire object. TOOL THAT TRANSPORTS <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8d4fdb22d7b70599477099698255a423e6eb1d5d30b036077ca372a90e62787a/handtool3.jpg" data-mid="45874476" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8d4fdb22d7b70599477099698255a423e6eb1d5d30b036077ca372a90e62787a/handtool3.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/617a767171ef282e2c9a656557a22c9ff0e4cb83a1d1117e9c894449ea7240e0/handtool3-1.jpg" data-mid="45874526" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/617a767171ef282e2c9a656557a22c9ff0e4cb83a1d1117e9c894449ea7240e0/handtool3-1.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/308ab3060b7fa2b66e6b56b446ade59fffcc59808c008c523183e760065964bf/handtool3-2.jpg" data-mid="45874748" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/308ab3060b7fa2b66e6b56b446ade59fffcc59808c008c523183e760065964bf/handtool3-2.jpg" /> This is a tool which allows the use of bodyweight as a lifting force. When utilizing this force on this device, users can move the goods in a unique traveling pattern. Without bending back while using this tool, the user can prevent potential injures. MORE PROJECTS︎ https://sptravishsu.com/Texture-Exploration Mon, 01 Jul 2019 23:13:29 +0000 Travis Hsu https://sptravishsu.com/Texture-Exploration Texture&nbsp; Exploration&nbsp; This project is about exploring the fundamental appearance and physical properties of materials, and creating opportunities of innovative texture. In order to achieve the final appearance that can be controlled with quantitative factors, I eliminate the unwanted variables and push the materials to the next level through continuous testing and analysis. This texture exploration&nbsp; focuses on combining cement and aluminum foil. Cement is known for its excellent shaping ability, reliable weather durability and easy access. By redesigning a simpler mold, I’m able to establish a metal-like reflective appearance&nbsp; yet maintain the advantages of cement. With this on-going experiement, I continue to study how many controllable factors can affect the final appearance. &nbsp;&nbsp; <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/efcf68cd0497ee7c36e73966dd96f8fda353bbca95c5a7eb7be8be9f6a9e3ec2/material1.jpg" data-mid="45882508" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/efcf68cd0497ee7c36e73966dd96f8fda353bbca95c5a7eb7be8be9f6a9e3ec2/material1.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e6f97452f13424d4d03f618aaa52ce997b68d9332c34551ee62d2e39e7079617/material3.jpg" data-mid="46052189" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e6f97452f13424d4d03f618aaa52ce997b68d9332c34551ee62d2e39e7079617/material3.jpg" />The formation of foil layers control the contact strength <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/46ba653e01f2ef4ff6007fa70044d0486d7879f6a35aef60e3fc4243e947970a/material3-1.jpg" data-mid="46052588" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/46ba653e01f2ef4ff6007fa70044d0486d7879f6a35aef60e3fc4243e947970a/material3-1.jpg" /> The ratio of concrete (Viscosity) effects various glossiness <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b9e2f43dc1aae1b5ec2c35819855602856a28a6fc8858bf7fe0ae5c191e29940/material3-2.jpg" data-mid="46053333" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b9e2f43dc1aae1b5ec2c35819855602856a28a6fc8858bf7fe0ae5c191e29940/material3-2.jpg" /> The curing time manipulates different colors base on metal properties MORE PROJECTS︎ https://sptravishsu.com/Craftsmanship Tue, 23 Jul 2019 04:12:37 +0000 Travis Hsu https://sptravishsu.com/Craftsmanship Perceived Quality Quality perception (through sensory) of product, it enhances the consumer’s perceived product value. Excellent craftsmanship in design compels buyers to purchase the product.&nbsp;Automakers realize that the consumers' perception(expectation) is getting more&nbsp;sophisticated, while their product craftsmanship is not. So&nbsp;Craftsmanship has become a key differentiator to win market share. Worked since 2013 as the Perceived Quality engineer at HAITEC Designer Center with product’s aesthetics, function, and tangible quality positioning in three vehicle programs under the “Luxgen” brand name in Yulon Group, in Taiwan and China. It covered from product’s value positioning; materials and manufacturing initiation and research phase; vehicle’s features setting; digital data clinic; benchmarking analysis of competitor's&nbsp;materials and aesthetic phase, design execution and all the way down the vehicle development process to math release of the industrialization phase. Our team has successfully identified design preferences that match consumer preferences up to 85%. <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4507e4044d3a64c50b40fa0a94d31d63f8c89898b38693233c3375343f892a5d/PQ4.png" data-mid="47151995" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4507e4044d3a64c50b40fa0a94d31d63f8c89898b38693233c3375343f892a5d/PQ4.png" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4e034c03782c32831674e89dcadfce70d3040683aee008c5b5e29190350209f3/PQ5.png" data-mid="47151993" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4e034c03782c32831674e89dcadfce70d3040683aee008c5b5e29190350209f3/PQ5.png" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/913585de45de6ab4b32a280b26d7e6d31d8f47ad54b11fd384a6a30f0017124e/PQ1.png" data-mid="47151999" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/913585de45de6ab4b32a280b26d7e6d31d8f47ad54b11fd384a6a30f0017124e/PQ1.png" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ea1a8abe6b35d68845f413d903e260bafbce563131faa88f219bcf2c2849b80a/PQ3.png" data-mid="47151997" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ea1a8abe6b35d68845f413d903e260bafbce563131faa88f219bcf2c2849b80a/PQ3.png" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; MORE PROJECTS︎ https://sptravishsu.com/Carousel Sat, 26 Oct 2019 22:37:46 +0000 Travis Hsu https://sptravishsu.com/Carousel <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1c22a11c65233212ed944aadc0d75647e234c5c1dd933fe574c2c6ee9234f300/DSC_8616.jpg" data-mid="53467680" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1c22a11c65233212ed944aadc0d75647e234c5c1dd933fe574c2c6ee9234f300/DSC_8616.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f11fb11e17349321dd0458ce180faf765ceb6d1ca80f95f252ae3309358438a9/DSC_8640.jpg" data-mid="53468051" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f11fb11e17349321dd0458ce180faf765ceb6d1ca80f95f252ae3309358438a9/DSC_8640.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eef78965b6cd0ccecfc31ca6fc67adcd704c27a83dd6cbd648881de4de648de1/handtool2-1.jpg" data-mid="53468052" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eef78965b6cd0ccecfc31ca6fc67adcd704c27a83dd6cbd648881de4de648de1/handtool2-1.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b0d7329beb0366bbcce669282cbf0d0de628bb34c9ea1199f72f7bc851dc69f0/pliers.jpg" data-mid="53468053" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b0d7329beb0366bbcce669282cbf0d0de628bb34c9ea1199f72f7bc851dc69f0/pliers.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8d4fdb22d7b70599477099698255a423e6eb1d5d30b036077ca372a90e62787a/handtool3.jpg" data-mid="53468055" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8d4fdb22d7b70599477099698255a423e6eb1d5d30b036077ca372a90e62787a/handtool3.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/efcf68cd0497ee7c36e73966dd96f8fda353bbca95c5a7eb7be8be9f6a9e3ec2/material1.jpg" data-mid="53468056" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/efcf68cd0497ee7c36e73966dd96f8fda353bbca95c5a7eb7be8be9f6a9e3ec2/material1.jpg" />