Intangible week2 : Redesigning Bathroom Interaction#2

For this week assignment, Me and Dan are redesigning the hand dryer.

From analyzing product interaction last week, we got some conclusions that many equipments in the rest room is pretty easy to activate but it is somehow hard to control or stop it. Therefore we came up with the idea that we will do the double sensors to activate the equipments.

We got 2 sensors to work on in this project, which is the IR sensor and the contactless temperature sensor. Dan was mentioning about blowing to activate the sensor and check the temperature so I think it would be nice if we could tie this up with other wind object and we ended up doing the redesign for the hand dryer.

Interaction Sketch

So for activate this dryer, you need to put your hand under the dryer and also blow at the dryer at the same time. And one interaction that I hate from the dryer is some time is very loud. I think it would be nice if we could also select the dryer level by over blowout.

We also put the blowing logo to the dryer for user information. And for the response, We also designed to put the LED light next to the sensors so it could show the user more about the system feedback.

Here is the video :