Brenna's Brief:

Sleep Sense: a pillow created to influence a user's sleep patterns by releasing calming and nostalgic scents throughout the night. The pillow reacts to a user's sleep movements: the more movement, the more the pillowcase releases its soothing scent.

Sleep Sense was made to help those with issues with sleeping. Whether it be nightmares or insomnia, Sleep Sense seeks to initiate a calm and peaceful sleep by rewiring how the brain is feeling using all natural smells. Sleep Sense is a fabric pillowcase filled with little stuffing for comfort, as well as nostalgic smells. Instead of using chemicals or pharmaceuticals to ensure sleep, Sleep Sense releases scents in each stage of sleep to ensure a user will rest throughout the night. For example: if a user is stressed from a long day, the smell of their grandma's cookies or roses emanating from Sleep Sense would calm the user when they rest on the pillow. Sleep Sense tracks the user's sleep. The pillow contains four layers of scents. Scents are released depending on the stage of the sleep cycle. The goal is for the user to break through one layer of scent per sleep stage. Each layer of scent contains all natural ingredients within pods, such as tea leaves, flower petals, etcetera. When you toss and turn in your sleep, the leaves and other ingredients within the pods crumble and crack, allowing for the smells to be released. The first layer will be released during stage NREM1, the second will be released during stage NREM2, and so on. This product is meant to be used by the general public, however, they can be custom made in order to fit each user's sensory needs. The product works best when Sleep Sense is tailor-made towards their personal nostalgic smells!

Kinect Waves: a drum that takes the physical interaction a person has with a Cajon drum and provides a visual which represents the experience of playing the instrument.

The motion of beating the drum is translated to an abstract visual which consists of wooden poles that are pushed out of the side of the drum based on the pressure and location of where the drum is hit. 

Kinect Waves is a way of experiencing sound and playing an instrument in a different light. When playing a Cajon drum a user interacts with the drum's face with their hand, which generates the sound of the drum. This project takes the sensory interaction a musician has with the drum and altered it to change the experience. The design of Kinetic Waves displays the act of drumming in an abstract way, to both the drummer and the audience. The product redesigned the face of the drum where the drum is most often hit during the process of playing.  It features plates which attach to a gear and track mechanism allowing moving poles to be pushed out of the side of the drum when played. These poles visualize the process of creating sound from the Cajon drum. By doing this, users interact with sound in a visual way, a sense that is generally completely absent from the musical process.

Portfolio Day

After the Final Presentation, you have the opportunity to consider your presentation in light of final feedback and discussion. You will spend additional time reviewing you presentations, refining you portfolio, and polishing you work before it is made public on the internet.

The Self Evaluation is an opportunity for you to reflect on your work during the Studio. Students and Coaches receive the same prompts and categories, and the students will evaluate their own progress and skill levels in Design Skills and Subject Skills applicable to the studio both numerically and textually. Through a narrative, you will also reflect on the quality and rigor of your work, give feedback on the studio, and have the opportunity to receive similar feedback directly from the coach.

• Portfolio & Assessment
• Self Assessment
• Final Brief
• Portfolio Checklist
• Portfolio Boards