4 thoughts on “Design Thinking”

  1. The small circles could pop up with random facts about the author’s inspiration for that particular scene you’re reading, facts about the real place, if it’s been used in other stories before, just tiny tidbits of information to help people who are easily distracted. The facts will be a way to take a brief break from reading but stay focused on the topic.

  2. I was given a plastic plate shaped like an enlarged jock-strap. In order to force people to read, this plate will attach to the person’s face and fill up with water as they read a page. This will encourage them to actually read so that they can avoid drowning. Once the page is read, the water goes back down. At the start of a new page, the mask begins to fill with water again. This cycle continues until the book is completely finished. Eye-scanning devices will determine whether the page has actually been read. When the person is finished reading they will be tested on the content of the book–this is still while the mask is on. If they get less than 75% on the test the mask will fill with water, ultimately drowning them to death.

  3. I was given bubble wrap but with big square air bubbles. I would use this as sort of a timer that monitors your reading progress. The user would have to hit a certain threshold that day to avoid repercussions. If the user didn’t meet the required number of pages or number of chapter, the bubbles will pop until you have finished the reading. How it works is that for every page or chapter you fail to read, depending on how you set it up, that is how many times bubbles will pop. For example, the user chose to set it for 5 chapters a day and only 2 are read. The bubbles will pop 3 times every hour until the 5 chapters are completely read. If it is set by number pages, it is a similar concept. If the user sets it for 100 pages and only 50 are read. There will be 50 pops until the reading is complete.

  4. I have a white, plastic, spade-like object. My idea is to have a book that can read or scan a person’s brainwaves. As long as it appears that the person is reading, there will be a fan that generating either warm or cool air, depending on that person’s environment. If it appears they have stopped reading, the fan will stop, too. There could also be an optional setting: if the person stops reading for more than 5 minutes, the fan will generate an undesired temperature. For example, if the reader is in a warm environment, and they haven’t been reading within the last 5 minutes, the fan will blow hot air on them.

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