Team Member: Yuan Chen, Yiting(Lora) Lu
Problem:
Some sentences just difficult to express, like: I am sorry.
Elton John wasn’t kidding: Sorry does seem to be the hardest word. Some people find it so hard to apologize that getting them to admit to even the smallest wrongdoing involves a major battle—often, a fruitless one. Although we might perceive the reluctance of these non-apologists as simple defensiveness or pride, a far deeper psychological dynamic is often at play: Refusing to apologize often reflects efforts to protect a fragile sense of self.
We need a courier in our relationships. Kids become couriers for their parents a lot. Our team wants to create a courier for anyone in any relationship to help people express their feelings to the other person while protecting themselves’ feelings as well.
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Interaction possibilities:
SparkFun RGB and Gesture Sensor - APDS-9960
Related features: proximity detection, and touchless gesture sensing
Related features: get your Arduino device set up to control a simple two-motor-circuit buddy.
The small robot is on wheels, helping to approach the message receiver.
Adafruit NeoPixel Digital RGB LED Strip
This is the strip with white flex PCB, its identical to the black 60 LED/meter except it has a different color mask on the flex strip
Sketch 1.0
The interactive device approaches to the message receiver. The receiver can interactive with it. Ideally it’s also carries the feedback massage back to the sender as well.
Sketch 1: A robot on wheel. We are considering display options, distance sensor, gesture detector.
Sketch 2: We are wondering how to display “sorry“ message in a much impressive way.