Digital
CDHD - Communication and learning Helper for Deaf and Hearing people
Application for Hololens to aid Deaf people in learning and in communicating with hearing people.
Project developed during the Usability Engineering Masters course together with Pimchanok Sripraphan and Vivien Nwoye (2017).
Participated of the Accessathon - Hackathon for disabilities in Rhein-Waal University.
Digital
CDHD - Communication and learning Helper for Deaf and Hearing people
Application for Hololens to aid Deaf people in learning and in communicating with hearing people.
Project developed during the Usability Engineering Masters course together with Pimchanok Sripraphan and Vivien Nwoye (2017).
Participated of the Accessathon - Hackathon for disabilities in Rhein-Waal University.
Industrial Design
Plant Growing Kit for Children in Urban Domestic Environment
This project aims at developing environmental consciousness through creating affection for plants during childhood with a plant growing kit.
Project developed as Bachelor thesis (2014).
Finalist in the category Design of Social Impact - professional - of the 4th Prêmio Sebrae Minas Design, a national design contest in Brazil.
Participated of the FAU Forma: designers 2015 exhibition.
Participated of the FAU FOrma: designers 10 years exhibition.
Its primer form as a suitcase holds all the structure and items inside it. The upper support and the legs are stored in a back compartment of the
suitcase and can be easily assembled.
The upper support holds 5 pots with water reservoir and a bird with 3 functions: water can, sprinkler and magnifying glass.
In order to adapt itself to different families and spaces, It can be also used on top of a furniture or fixed on the wall, while the suitcase can be
stored in another place as a cabinet.
The kit includes:
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5 compact dirt discs,
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seeds of 5 different species,
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fertilizer,
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a scoop,
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a report notebook,
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a refrigerator magnet for remembering to water,
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a watering can (bird's beak),
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a sprinkler (bird's hat),
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a magnifying glass (bird's tail),
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a soil container,
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a working area as a removable tray to avoid dirting the house,
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a three-parted binder with eight seed containers attached to collect different species seeds and cards showing instructions and curiosities,
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5 pots with water reservoir
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and 5 seedbed with greenhouse.
To garantee the best height for the target age group (children from 8 to 12 years old) it was made a volumetric paper model and tested with 14 children of this range.
Below, a lateral view as an "X-ray vision" showing the fitting of the upper support parts inside the back compartment of the suitcase and the upper support parts assembled and fixed with screws.
