ColorMe Midpoint Presentation

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1. COLORME Cindy Chang d.compress Social Calm
6. ColorMe  A calming sensory app that encourages self- reflection and healthy interaction with friends that portrays moments/emotions in a day as colors.  Help people lead more colorful, enriching, creative lives.
7. User  Stanford computer science undergrad taking a programming class along with a heavy load, who has an appreciation for the arts
8. Stressor
9. Behavior  Green span behavior  Start a new/unfamiliar behavior this week
10. User Experience  Set Up:  Download the “SketchBookX” app from Autodesk  Link Gmail address and mobile device with Blogger site  Regular Use:  Color screenful of the color you’re currently feeling using SketchBookX and export to photo library  Send MMS to Blogger site with one liner about your color  Review your posts, see your friends’ colors, track by day, etc!
11. Experiencing Calm  Calming mechanism:  Coloring on surface of mobile device  Seeing squares of color  Ability to express yourself concisely  Checking in with your friends
12. Trigger  Ideally – facial tracking connected with webcam to deduce when you’re feeling too frustrated/stressed while coding, notification with link  Text message with link  Blogger sends email with new post/comments
13. Insights from Crummy Trials  Trial 1: MobileMonet  “Seeing color appear at my fingertips felt magical”  “Soothing…I really got to feel the surface of my iPhone”  Trial 2: Color Therapy  When you’re stuck debugging, what you really want to do is accomplish something  Users didn’t want to sit around and passively watch colors change/flash
14. Does it work?  We’ll see!  Testing with 7 users at the moment
15. Thanks! Questions? Thanks! Questions?