Concept:
For my final project, I want to create an interactive tool that helps to visualize stress levels during finals seasons. It will allow college students to relieve stress through squeezing and screaming and produce a unique visual mapping of their stress. The tool will incorporate a microphone in a cup and either a force-sensitive resistor or an air pressure sensor inside a squeezable object (a plushie or a stress ball). The pressure and sound inputs will be used to determine stress levels based on duration and intensity, and the results will be displayed on a screen. Us
Implementation:
My tool will consist of 2 parts: the hardware (arduino) and the software (p5js).
Arduino will receive the input, keep track of the duration and intensity of each input: sound, and touch, and send that data to p5js. I might also add a switch to start the process and to make the timing easier. I expect arduino to finish processing the data and then send it to p5js to visualize.
P5js will get the input from arduino, map the intensity and duration to stress levels in terms of colors and size of color dots and print the output on the screen (an output similar to the one below).
In the end, it would be great if the users can download/print out their stress profile but I am not sure yet how feasible that is.
Challenges
I anticipate building an aesthetically pleasing and functional tool that can be squeezed hard yet still work will be the biggest challenge. I am thinking of using either a plushie or a stress ball for that but at the same time trying to see if I can get hold of an air pressure sensor so I can use a balloon.
