Project Statement

The Cigarette Slide is a Cigarette disposal station that encourages people to properly dispose of their cigarette butts. We surveyed 2 areas in Central Square and found that Graffiti Alley had 134 butts and the MBTA bus stop had 250 butts (covering roughly 5% of the ground). The slide would collect and display the amount as data of how many are eliminated for being on the street. The data must be portrayed that way because the focus of the installation is to eliminate cigarette butt litter which means the installation and the data cannot be alienating to smokers because then they would not use it. 

Targeted Deliverables

1. Our device collects cigarettes,
2. Whenever a cigarette is collected, it fills a clear tube to show how many cigarettes are in the device and not on the ground
3. Outside of the bus stop.
4. Our device entices people to dispose of cigarettes properly
5. Our device shows a representation of how many cigarettes are on the floor, and how many are not due to the device.
6. Full-scale dimensions must not exceed 1/2 of your studio table

Grafitti Alley

Central Square

Bus Stop

Bar Graph

Diagrams

Sketches

Prototypes

Final Photo

Next Steps

• Higher fidelity prototype

• More stable

• Better collection and data display