Huggings

Creator

Chan, Wai Sin, Hasley 陳韋蒨

Title

Huggings

Alternative Title

HUGGIE

An interactive cushion to hug your emotions

Subject

Industrial design -- China -- Hong Kong -- Exhibitions

College graduates

Date Created

2022-08-20

Relation

PolyU Design Show 2022: Profile Cards

Format

Photographs

Identifier

ASSD2022BAPDD23P001

ASSD2022BAPDD23P002

ASSD2022BAPDD23P003

ASSD2022BAPDD23P004

ASSD2022BAPDD23P005

ASSD2022BAPDD23P006

ASSD2022BAPDD23P007

ASSD2022BAPDD23P008

Is Part Of

BA (Hons) in Product Design

Description

An ergonomic cushion is designed for powering mental healing through expressing love and care. A hug is a body language to reflect trust and security. In the desire on interact with close people, Huggie offers two services which are self-meditation and online connection with the application. There are three steps to using huggings: doing meditation through the product, feeling the deep emotions when meditating and exploring more about hugging in the hug social. Huggies targets to enhance human mental health by expressing the power of hugging and caring. This ergonomic design imitated the hug and relax gestures. To highlight the importance of mental health, Huggie connects to APP which allows the users to share and form their own mental hug circle. Mental Health treatment required physical and mental support from theory and human caring. Huggie shortens the interaction distance between others by the physical hug product.

Collection

PolyU Design Show 2022