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Calm Automaton: A DIY Toolkit for Ambient Displays,  | International Design Awards Winners
Calm Automaton: A DIY Toolkit for Ambient Displays,  | International Design Awards Winners
Calm Automaton: A DIY Toolkit for Ambient Displays,  | International Design Awards Winners
Calm Automaton: A DIY Toolkit for Ambient Displays,  | International Design Awards Winners
Calm Automaton: A DIY Toolkit for Ambient Displays,  | International Design Awards Winners
Calm Automaton: A DIY Toolkit for Ambient Displays,  | International Design Awards Winners

Calm Automaton: A DIY Toolkit for Ambient Displays

Lead DesignersMinjoo Cho
Prize(s)Bronze in Outdoor And Exercise Equipment / Sports/Toys/Games
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Entry Description

Calm Automaton is a user-customisable automaton toolkit that functions as an ambient display for peripheral information. It allows the user to be calmly notified of information changes with shape shifts of the Automaton.
Instead of noisy alarms disturbing your concentration, Calm Automaton lets you be aware of information fluctuations with slow and gentle shape changes over time. In that sense, Calm Automaton is the combination of two incompatible words; calm and alarm.

Users can make their own calm alarm by simply attaching print-out images or objects from your surroundings.
Each transparent acrylic plate defines a single motion, actuated by one servomotor attached in the back.
Six acrylic motion modules with one stationary module are included in the toolkit and users may combine at most three motion modules to visualize multidimensional shape changes. Without any professional engineering knowledge, it allows users to tangibly link internet information and visualize in their desired way.