Conceptual DesignScenarios
Photo Account
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1. A day out, taking some photos.
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2. Choose the good pictures.
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3. Remove the Photo Bank card with them on.
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4. ‘Deposit’ the photos.
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5. Later on, somewhere else...
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6. can ‘withdraw’ prints.
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7. So that when visiting family…
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8. can show them the prints.
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OR: 9. Insert Photo Bank card into special box and
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10. look at photos on TV.
Forget Me Not Frame
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Lever on frame descends over time
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and as lever descends, picture fades
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until it disappears.
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1. Mum sees picture fading, so
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2. pushes the lever back up
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3. so her son’s picture reappears.
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OR 1. Mum on the phone to son.
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2. Have an argument, slams the phone down
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3. and pushes lever down.
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4. Which disappears picture in frame.
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5. But photos of son throughout collection…
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6. also disappear.
Home Hooks
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1. A family meal, son hasn’t arrived yet.
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2. Home Hooks frame shows son’s picture.
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3. Son arrives…
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4. puts keys on the Home Hooks
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5. which is connected to frame, so son’s picture
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6. disappears when he is present.
Totems
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1. Dad sees Totem object
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2. Reminds him of his father.
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3. Putting his father’s Totem on device…
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4. brings up pictures of him.
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5. If several people’s Totem objects used…
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6. pictures with all those people appear.
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7. Removing one of the Totem objects leaves just the pictures of the people whose Totems remain.
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8. Totems are aware of who is looking at pictures, here William Bowen = Dad.
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9. and here William Bowen = Grandad.
Way MarkerScenarios
Digital Paper Unit
Digital Paper Unit slots into user’s chosen frame
Unit has memory and electronics to change pictures
Pictures cycle at user-defined intervals
Or user can tap touch screen to change manually
Picture Grabber
Picture Grabber is used to move pictures around
User ‘grabs’ pictures by holding buttons down
Then can walk around with Picture Grabber…
and ‘drop’ pictures onto digital frames by releasing buttons.
Emotographs
Emotograph camera has sensors that, like a lie detector,
capture the photographer’s emotions when taking a picture.
So later, on a miserable, grey day…
you can choose to look at ‘happy’ Emotographs,
of a fancy dress party.
Or after a stressful day’s work…
choose relaxing Emotographs
of calming landscapes.