Bringing Indoor Air Quality Awareness Into the Student Working Space
PURO
Puro is a smart home device for students aimed to increase awareness of their indoor air quality. By providing indications about the indoor air quality, Puro encourages it users to take initiative. It provides information about the current state of the indoor air quality compared to the recommended indoor air quality. Next, the user has the ability to compare the current state of the air quality with one hour ago. But sometimes you don’t want to be distracted, just use the slider to deactivate Puro for a while.
BACKGROUND
During the Covid-19 pandemic, students were forced to work from home if they do not want to delay their study. This made the home environment even more important then before, an important factor is indoor air quality. Therefore we questioned ourselves, how can we increase the awareness of the indoor air quality of students?
To explore this, we used a data-enabled design approach, in which (sensorial) data plays a central role as creative material.
TIME
Spring 2021
APPROACH
Data-Enabled Design
FELLOW DESIGNERS
Evianne van Hartingsveldt, Bas Plijnaer and Emily van Leemput
The process
We followed the data-enabled design approach, which is split into a contextual and an informed phase. We went through several iterations for each step. In both phases we combined qualitative and quantitative methods. This resulted in more profound insights into the interaction between our concept, the user and other contextual elements. In the evaluation of the final iteration, we learned that by providing positive feedback by Puro motivated the participant to study. The paper concludes with a proposition for a next iteration of Puro, which is based on the design opportunities that were identified during the two steps of the data-enabled design approach.
