IP Week-1 Learning Plan & Idea Generation

Welcome to the digital journal of my independent project, where I will update the progress of my independent project every week.


In this project, we need to set a learning goal by ourselves. Then choose a project to do. My learning goal is to learn Arduino, and the Arduino can be controlled by a phone app. Besides, we need to come up with a local community problem, and then come up with a design to solve or have a positive impact. First of all, I choose Empowering from 3 categories. Then through my mind map, I chose the problem of device addiction in today's society.


Also, I have a rough idea of the product I want to make. This product is a mobile phone dock, which can be connected to mobile phone applications. This mobile phone dock encourages people to put down their phones and do other things seriously. If the user picks up the phone dock during that period, a sound will be made to remind the user to put down the phone. In the mobile phone application, users can set a timer to determine how long they want to stay away from their phone. At the same time, they can set a short period of time to use their phone, for example, they can use that period of time to reply to the message when the message comes.

Here is my rough sketch of the phone dock:


The reason why this mobile phone base does not force people to put down their phones is that no one likes to be controlled, and it would be better for people to consciously put down their phones. (These are my hypothesis and need to be researched)

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