Snow Day
A fun and exciting way to find out if school is closed
Snow Day is a simple internet-connected object that tells you if school is closed today. Pick them up and if their tummy glows, you know there’s no school today.
This piece is an experiment to see if young people continued to be engaged with an object over a long period of time that very seldomly does anything.
Date:
2016
Materials:
3D Printed Materials. Bespoke Electronics and Software.
Publication:
Mills, John., Metcalfe, Tom., Lochrie, Mark, and Gradinar, Adrian (2016) Rare Occurrence: Exploring IoT, news media, calm interfaces and infrequent interactions. Proceedings of the 30th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2016) . ISSN 1477-9358
Role:
Co-Investigator. Concept and Design.
Partner
Media Innovation Studio, UCLan