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# 2019 Upp – Smiling our way to an inclusive classroom |
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Upp is a smart device that captures and tallies smiles in classrooms as a means of nurturing empathy and compassion in children. Taking the form of a playful clip-on badge, the device is built and worn by children throughout the academic year – its built-in camera capturing how many smiles each child receives from their teacher and peers. A jar sits in the classroom that visualises every caught smile with a cloud that slowly floats upwards, providing a representation of the students’ mood and morale.
Anoushka Garg is a service and interaction designer at Fjord where she gets to play many roles like a design researcher, a prototyper, a workshop facilitator or sometimes even a resident clown. She’s an advocate of the iterative process of design and enjoys every phase– research, concepting, designing etc.– of the project equally. Her background as a branding consultant helps her think strategically and allows her to look at challenges both from a bird’s eye view and through an ant’s perspective. Her works ranges across many industries like telecom, pharmaceuticals, public service and governments to e-commerce. Prior to a masters in Interaction Design at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID), she trained as a graphic designer at the National Institute of Design in India and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia. Armed with a goal to understand the relevance and implication of emerging technologies in helping us form richer, more human and multidimensional relationships, he recent projects focus on the interplay of physical and digital and explore artistic applications of machine learning, generative/creative use of AI.more
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