Solarcise: App with interactive vending machine design for enhancing hikers' sun protection habit

Creator

Fong, Cheuk Yiu, Rachel 方芍瑤 -- Tsoi, Ling Yee, Zoe 蔡令怡

Title

Alternative Title

Solarcise: An interactive design project for enhancing sun protection habit of hikers一個提升遠足者的防曬習慣的互動設計項目

Solarcise: Interactive design to enhance sun protection habit

Subject

Interactive multimedia -- Design -- Exhibitions

College graduates

Date Created

2021-06-17

Relation

PolyU Design Show 2021: Profile Cards

Format

Photographs

Identifier

ASSD2021BAIMD02P001

ASSD2021BAIMD02P002

ASSD2021BAIMD02P003

ASSD2021BAIMD02P004

Is Part Of

BA (Hons) in Interactive Media

Description

Solarcise is named by the word “solar” and “exercise” which the app designed for hikers, the type of sports that exercise under the sun. Basking under the sun could give advantages to our body. However, an over-exposure time under the sun could also harm the skin. This project aims to enhance hikers’ sun protection habit through a hiking app, a regular tool that they will use normally, adding sun protection-related functions, linked with sunscreen packs vending machines with UV camera on it which could visualize the damages caused by sunlight and the coverage of sunscreen on the skin. To encourage hikers to apply sun protection.

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Solarcise is named by the word “solar” and “exercise” which the app designed for hikers, the type of sports that exercise under the sun. Basking under the sun could give advantages to our body. However, an over-exposure time under the sun could also harm the skin. This project aims to enhance hikers’ sun protection habit through a hiking app, a regular tool that they will use normally, adding sun protection-related functions, linked with sunscreen packs vending machines . With UV camera on it which could visualize the damages caused by sunlight and the coverage of sunscreen on the skin.

Collection

PolyU Design Show 2021