Sound Glasses
Sound Glasses is designed for visually impaired people to be able to "see" the colorful world. With the glasses, when visually impaired play Rubik's Cube, the glasses will detect the color of the cube touched by fingers and play corresponding music note at the same time. Our vision is to let visually impaired feel the environment with music, assist them with other modalities and also use the glasses for navigation.
Time and Place
June 2015
München, Germany
My Contribution
Concept generation
Video making
My Role
Product Designer
This project was made at “Munich Wearable Data Hack 2015” by 4 team members (2 designers and 2 developers) in 2 days. This Hackathon aimed to kick-off app development for the emerging wearable market. Nowadays there are many apps on smartwatch designed for medical measurement, navigation and etc. Besides, most of wearable devices are designed for normal people. After we did user research and brainstorming, we decided to make a sound glasses for virtually impaired people which can make full use of their strong hearing ability (with high sensibility) to help them “see” the colorful world.
EMPATHY MAP
In this project, taking the limited time into consideration, we only made an adapted empathy map to build user requirements and brainstormed the solutions. In two days, we designed and developed two prototypes, one is with google Cardbox (android version), and the other is with Google Glass. Finally, we succeeded to use this Sound Glasses to play with Rubik’s cube.
DESIGN PROTOTYPE
Users can take pictures of the scene or the product with the Google Glass and it will detect the main color in the photo and play the corresponding sound.
Through the cellphone with our application, the users can hear the corresponding sound that they point out.
