APD_week11_Play&Stillness_Kory

Theme:

Play and Stillness

Stillness represents the exact opposite of dynamic. It gave me the feeling of a break after the hilarity. So I started thinking about some ways of entertainment that can bring peace and rest. Growing plants is a very stillness process, plants grow very slowly, absorb very slowly, and can feel peaceful when viewing them. So this process is strongly related to stillness.

Method:

Play is the result of designing some human activity. The theme this time is stillness. So my design goal is to let players get peaceful happiness in the process of playing. Relaxation after tension can be pleasurable to the brain. It doesn't play like a lot of intensely contested games. It is a long-term play method for quiet cultivation and viewing. It's more like a simulation game. Regarding the process method, I used the brainstorming way to think about the play method. Then the sketching method was used to improve the design.

Context:

Make Your Plant SMART! By Arduino: https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/electropeak/make-your-plant-smart-by-arduino-01c462

Arduino is an open-source electronics platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for anyone making interactive projects. Electro Peak used Arduino to create a mechanized plant-growing machine that inspired me. This process not only allows people to experience the fun of hands-on production but also makes it easier to cultivate plants. But I think this play method of cultivating plants can also be iterated to make the experience simpler, more comfortable and more intelligent. That is to use mobile phone software to remotely control plant cultivation, players can control and observe their own plants from a long distance. Even I hope to add an AI to analyze the state of plants to assist players in cultivating plants better. This plant becomes the player's pet, and the player always misses his plant pet sometimes, so he takes out his mobile phone and looks at it.

Reflection:

I'm thinking about adding a fertilizer system to the machine if it's commercialized, allowing AI to automatically adjust the fertilizer levels for plants. Players can buy fertilizer boxes like capsules, like ink for printers. When you run out, you can buy new ones to add in. In this way, the health of the plant is more secure.