The Orbanizer

UX HCI, on December 28th, 2010 go back to index

Parents face a problem when kids leave their houses. One of which is decluttering. Part of this problem is knowing what the child wants to keep or not.

The orbanizer consists on an orb with a screen in the back that  supports parents and their children with the decluttering process. On the opposing side of the screen (the orb’s top) there is a camera.

Both the parents and the children have an orb. When the parents wants to declutter they use the orb to take pictures of objects and make an initial decision about that objects destiny.  By default there are three options: Throw away, give away and put way.

When the parent finishes the tagging process these are sent to the child orb that starts glowing. The child can then agree or disagree with the parent decision. These decisions are then sent to the parents that now know exactly what they should do with those items.

This project was an assignment for the Methods course at CMU.