The Qu ambient technology ecosystem cultivates a balanced re

Student

学生

The Qu ambient technology ecosystem cultivates a balanced relationship with modern tech

Qu环境技术生态系统与现代技术建立了平衡的关系

Qu Team

曲队

SCAD UX Design Senior Project

SCAD UX设计高级项目

With Qu, the ultimate goal is to connect people back to their natural flows and patterns of life, and cultivate a grounded experience that enriches our lives and creates a more mindful and natural relationship with our technology. Qu is an innovative ambient technology based ecosystem designed to help you cultivate a balanced relationship with technology. Combining sound, light, scent, movement, and contextual data, Qu softly communicates and provides control over phone and digital wellbeing. It aims to awaken a greater awareness of content consumption and phone usage, giving you the ability to make intentional choices that lead to deeper joy and connection with yourself, your surroundings and others. We want to create an incredible way, and a softer approach to inspire new notions of interacting with technology, one that promotes consciousness and empowers individuals to live a life of intention and fulfillment, one that leads to more mindful consumption and brings back a piece of our humanity.

通过Qu，最终目标是将人们重新连接到他们的自然流动和生活模式，并培养一种接地的体验，丰富我们的生活，并与我们的技术建立一种更加专注和自然的关系。Qu是一个创新的基于环境技术的生态系统，旨在帮助您与技术建立平衡的关系。结合声音，光线，气味，运动和上下文数据，Qu柔和地沟通，并提供对电话和数字健康的控制。 它旨在唤醒人们对内容消费和手机使用的更高意识，让你能够做出有意识的选择，从而带来更深层次的快乐，并与自己、周围环境和他人建立联系。 我们希望创造一种令人难以置信的方式，一种更柔和的方法来激发与技术互动的新概念，一种促进意识并赋予个人以意图和成就感的生活，一种导致更多注意消费并带回我们人性的方式。

Design Team

设计团队

Matt Ahrens, Prototype Lead Arjun Gupta, Research Lead Lara Federspiel, Project Manager Seth Stomberger, Visual Lead Pranshu Agarwal, UX Strategy Lead

Matt Ahrens，原型主管Arjun Gupta，研究主管Lara Federspiel，项目经理Seth Stomberger，视觉主管Pranshu Agarwal，用户体验战略主管

To fully experience the richness of humanity, individuals must engage with the world around them without the constant distraction of mobile devices. Phones are not inherently bad, however the heavy usage of them distracts people from pursuing hobbies, fostering in-person relationships, frolicking around in a field, or simply just being in touch with their own minds and awareness - Being human if you will. With Qu, the ultimate goal is to connect people back to their natural flows and patterns of life, and cultivate a grounded experience that enriches our lives and creates a more mindful and natural relationship with our technology. We want to create an incredible way, and a softer approach to inspire new notions of interacting with technology, one that promotes consciousness and empowers individuals to live a life of intention and fulfillment, one that leads to more mindful consumption and brings back a piece of our humanity. Qu is a multifaceted system with a lot of intelligence behind the scenes. The Qu ecosystem has three family members: The Qu, the Mini Qus and a side app facilitator. All of these work together as an ecosystem to integrate into your daily life. Qu is backed by ambient intelligence developed through what we call the “talking phase” - Once you unbox and set up Qu, it will take up to a week of observing your phone usage and daily schedules to customize the perfect environment for your day to day life. That means there is NO set up required on the app, unless you want to customize the environment that Qu set up for you. Modes are ambient environments created for specific situations. These modes are customized to your specific needs and preferences, utilizing changing lights, scents, and sounds to transform your environment into a productive, relaxing, upbeat or inspiring space. We use modes in modern technology now, such as sleep mode, work mode, do not disturb etc. but with Qu, we are expanding beyond that. With help from Qu and the mini Qus,. the system is able to apply senses such as different lights, smells and sounds to these modes. For example, you automatically enter sleep mode at midnight, so Qu knows to turn on the orange lights, play calming rain sounds and smell like lavender. Qu helps decrease mindless technology usage by providing you with specific recommendations based on learned hobbies and goals, inspiring you to pursue your dream life.

为了充分体验人性的丰富性，个人必须与周围的世界互动，而不受移动的设备的干扰。手机本身并不坏，但是大量使用手机会分散人们的注意力，使他们无法追求自己的爱好，培养人际关系，在某个领域嬉戏，或者仅仅是与自己的思想和意识保持联系-如果你愿意的话，你可以成为人类。 通过Qu，最终目标是将人们重新连接到他们的自然流动和生活模式，并培养一种接地的体验，丰富我们的生活，并与我们的技术建立一种更加专注和自然的关系。我们希望创造一种令人难以置信的方式，一种更柔和的方法来激发与技术互动的新概念，一种促进意识并赋予个人以意图和成就感的生活，一种导致更多注意消费并带回我们人性的方式。 Qu是一个多方面的系统，在幕后有很多智能。Qu生态系统有三个家庭成员：Qu，Mini Qus和一个侧应用程序服务器。所有这些都作为一个生态系统一起工作，融入您的日常生活。 Qu由通过我们称之为“通话阶段”开发的环境智能提供支持-一旦您打开并设置Qu，将需要长达一周的时间来观察您的手机使用情况和日常日程，以定制适合您日常生活的完美环境。这意味着应用程序上不需要设置，除非你想自定义Qu为你设置的环境。模式是为特定情况创建的周围环境。这些模式是根据您的特定需求和偏好定制的，利用不断变化的灯光，气味和声音将您的环境转变为一个富有成效，放松，乐观或鼓舞人心的空间。我们现在使用现代技术中的模式，如睡眠模式，工作模式，请勿打扰等，但随着Qu，我们正在扩展。在小屈和小屈的帮助下。该系统能够将诸如不同的光、气味和声音的感觉应用于这些模式。比如，你会在午夜自动进入睡眠模式，所以Qu知道打开橙子灯，播放平静的雨声，闻起来像熏衣草。 Qu根据你的兴趣爱好和目标为你提供具体的建议，鼓励你追求你的梦想生活，从而帮助你减少盲目的技术使用。

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