DSDN112 assignment2 Ideas

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These are the images of what i have been brainstorming ideas and generating my initial idea to create an interface that helps energy consumption in homes. The idea was to help users turn off or become aware of energy that is being used un-necessarily and make tips on saving energy more known.

I was thinking of creating an idea here were the amount of energy used would reflect in a reward or punishment system, that coincides with the users shaver if you save enough energy for the week you can shave if you don't you cant. Therefore your neighbors can see if your are saving energy by the length of your beard.

Here i brainstormed up a couple of ideas that would maybe work more user friendly and they all reach a different target audience. The first idea was making a social networking group or activities for children that they access on the internet. This would be an educational, but also fun tool that they can make tree houses which relates to there energy usage and the bigger tree house the better energy consumption.

The second idea was making an interface that monitors the power usage of a house, which can limit or increase the amount of fuel used in a car of the household. This idea creates two types of energy consumption, but lacks greater detail and needs alot of figuring out.

The third idea was my favorite as it was the reflection of energy consumption within the home by a piece of electronic artwork. The artwork would have to connected to the lighting of the house and gives the user an experience at the same time as it changes with energy consumption.