BabySays

BabySays is a bridge between new parents and their baby. By translating and monitoring baby?s cry, it assists parents to understand baby?s message. Baby?s cries have a general pattern for its needs: hunger, discomfort (wet diaper, for example), sickness, sleepiness, and tiredness. This pattern enables BabySays to translate baby?s language into adult?s language as well as monitoring the baby, and help parents respond to baby?s cry appropriately and promptly. Learning baby?s language, therefore, is no more a painstaking, frustrating trial-and-error process.
BabySays has a transmitter and a receiver: the transmitter housed in a baby pillow receives baby?s signal and analyzes the pattern to send the message to the receiver. The receiver, a bracelet that parents can wear, displays the message with either the actual sound of baby?s cry or a silent vibration. Eventually, parents will learn to discern the different cries and communicate with their newborn baby.

Hansook Lee is a senior student at California College of the Arts. With a linguistics background, she solves problems with an analytic and practical approach, balancing functional and aesthetic values. Grown up in Seoul, South Korea, and moved to California, USA, she understands both Eastern and Western cultures, which often support her design decisions.

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