Slow technology

Stress, you may experience it more often than you would like. The way we feel stress as well as how we handle it is different for everyone. Trez is a desk-based artifact that presents your self reported stress through movement. Input your stress by touching Trez, and it will plan interventions based on this past input. The intervention is ambiguous and at a random time. It aims to see how people will take action when being presented with their past self reported stress in a non-disruptive way.

The wooden base of the prototype was built by me. I got the white plate and moving tabs of the prototype 3D printed.

I also helped another member of the team write the Arduino code that executed out project.

I also conducted the user study. This was a design research project and the user study was one of the most important parts of the process.