Why Social Distancing
Keeping a social distance has been proved to be an effective way to prohibit infection by Harvard University, lowering fumulative cases over 40% or more.
Our Exploration
We redefine “close contact” and “safety scope” during and post pandemic. But this is against nature of the social interaction. It’s still hard to say “step back please” to a friend who you bumb into on the street. Likewise it’s similarly embarrassing that you greet an old friend who stands meters away. Most of the time, people would forget the social distancing thing when they chat happily. So we try to tackle the problem from fashion and design perspective.
Quite interesting, we found that during the Victorian Times, ladies from the upper class wear dress like this, with structures put inside to keep a polite social distance from others people, and this is also an indicator of social status. So we decided to do a similar tiral.
How It Works
People could walk towards the user from the back or from the front, or any other directions. But we briefly divide the conditions into two: you could see the one or you could not.
When users could see the people coming toward them: use a joystick to control the dressbrella.
When users could not see the people coming toward them: PIR sensor automatically open the dressbrella.
Visible Comers
Invisible Comers
In the Future
Final Work Show
