Elahe Salehi
The Phone Tooth
The "Phone Tooth" is a wireless receiver that can be implanted into your tooth with the aid basic dental surgery. The implant can allow a person to receive digital signals from radios and mobile phones, from the privacy of their own head. The signals are translated into vibrations that travel from the tooth to your skull to your inner ear where only you can hear them. Designed by Jimmy Loizeau and James Auger, research associates from MIT Media Lab Europe. This new wireless receiver can be implanted into your tooth with the aid basic dental surgery. A micro-vibration device and a wireless receiver is implanted into a natural tooth during routine dental surgery. Sounds are transferred from the tooth into the inner ear by bone resonance (digital signals being converted into audio). Sound reception is assured to be totally discreet, so it will not make a buzzing sound in your mouth. The vibrations are on a molecular level, so the user only experiences pure sound streaming into their consciousness. The implant is designed to work in tandem with either a dedicated device or a modified mobile telephone, which can pick up the long distance signals and transmit a local signal to the tooth receiver. Capable of being fully customized to suit user requirements, reception can be switched on and off at will with the aid of the dedicated device. Having unwanted sound information arriving directly into the user's brain would resemble technological schizophrenia, therefore maximum control is essential
With the minimal hardware required, estimated costs of the implant are quite low and because the dental surgery is pretty basic, the procedure is relatively cheap. With health issues being minimal, about the same as the issues raised by the use of mobile phones, the tooth is expected to be available in markets in the near future.
I believe that as new technologies are often overly complex for their intended target audience, this interactive design The “Phone Tooth” aims to minimize the learning curve and increases accuracy and efficiency of it’s purpose as a digital receiver without diminishing usefulness. The objective of the Phone Tooth is to reduce frustration and increase user productivity and satisfaction. What attracted me the most was the use of biotechnology being imbedded with in our bodies used as the interactive object itself. This design crosses the border of the use of new sciences and technologies to enhance human mental and physical abilities and aptitudes. The Phone Tooth allows our bodies to become the interactive design experience within its biotechnological standards.
Trustworthy
The Phone Tooth is a good interaction design and that creates an enjoyable and fluid experience and is trustworthy because it is designed by Jimmy Loizeau and James Auger, research associates from MIT Media Lab Europe. MIT is known to be one of the most prestige Universities. However The Phone Tooth design raises some real issues about how far we want to go with using biotechnology in our bodies, but after research with health issues being minimal it’s about the same as the issues raised by the use of mobile phones. The implantation of this device in your tooth is an aid basic dental surgery, by your trusted dentist. This interactive design can be applied to the development of all solutions, which goes beyond the use of just cell phones and becomes apart of our being.
Appropriate
This interactive design is appropriate to the situation, context, and culture of its audience. The Phone Tooth is a futuristic universal design which applies to all individuals and will never diminish its uniqueness. The designers have gained the ability to better understand user goals and experiences. With this interactive design the user is aware of system capabilities from an early stage so that expectations regarding functionality are both realistic and properly understood. Also the user of this universal design feels a sense of ownership, thus increasing overall satisfaction.
Smart
This design is smart enough to do things for us that we can’t easily do alone, and to prevent us from making unnecessary mistakes or from working harder than we need to; responsive, showing us that it hears our every action; and clever, predicting the needs of your audience and then fulfilling those needs in unexpectedly pleasing ways.
Responsive
This interactive is an immediate and and quick responsive product that can allow a person to receive digital signals from radios and mobile phones, from the privacy of their own head. It is an experience that is developed highly across all dimensions of immediacy and consistently a product that satisfies its users. It’s responsive and offering to its group’s or individual's needs and desires.
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If I could be involved within the process of this great interactive design of The Phone Tooth I would attempt to improve the usability and experience of the product, by first researching and understanding certain users' needs and then designing to meet and exceed them. Figuring out who needs to use it, and how those people would like to use it. I want to take part in this process of multiple rounds of brainstorming, discussion, and refinement, drawing on a combination of user research, technological possibilities, and business opportunities. My objective is to help designers realize user requirements, after brainstorming and researching from these personae, and the patterns of behavior observed in the research, my goal is to create scenarios, which imagine a future work flow the users will go through using the product or service. After thorough analysis using various tools and models, my aim is to create a high level summary spanning across all levels of user requirements. This includes a vision statement regarding the current and future goals of a project.
Credits:http://www.time.com/time/2002/inventions/tra_phone.html
originally published: 3/12/08 9:04: Time modified by instructor to relocate posting below Activate Project postings.
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