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Syncsense

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An intervention for motion

 

sickness on airplanes

Framework.

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From ships rolling in the high seas to rocket boosted sleds running at 632mph, humans have been experiencing extreme dynamic motion for eons. Under these conditions, people are susceptible to motion sickness due to sensory conflict between what they are seeing (the ocular system) and the forces they are experiencing (proprioceptive & vestibular systems).
 

Overview.

Syncsense is a motion sickness mitigation system designed to be implemented on commercial airplanes.


Team


Advisors

Erin McLean 
Arjun Menon 

Carla Saad

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Fawwaz Habbal

Jock Herron

Peter Stark

Andrew Witt

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Collaborative Design Engineering Studio I 

Scale of Impact 

Motion sickness per mode of Transportation in the US

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The intervention should mitigate the effects of motion sickness for a traveler by

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Syncsense is a motion sickness mitigation system designed to be implemented on commercial airplanes. The intervention is a multi-step process that rescues the user from nausea by disrupting the brain's emetic response then provides relief by uniting the ocular and vestibular senses.

 

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Intervention Strategy

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Syncsense is based on mapping the coordinates of the passenger and on projecting the correspondent horizon line both on a deployable screen for business class travellers or through virtual reality glasses handed to the economy class passengers.
 

The sensing & digital interface 

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Skin temperature measuraed

by capacitance in fabric

Heart Rate Sensor embedded  into P6 pressure applicator

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The deployable  Screen

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Virtual Reality | Bringing the horizon line to the passenger

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The VR kit

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Flux

Reimagining the Passenger Experience at Security.

8Twist

Design Explorations

Key Takeaways 

 

  1. Digital interventions as well might give us solutions to enhance our well being.  
     

  2. Cutting-edge technologies such as Virtual Reality might bear potential unexplored solutions for real-world problems if combined with spatial and user experience design.   

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