Arts & Design Department
Íris Carlota
BA Design Student (Fashion Design)
Jessika D’Angelo
BA Design Student (Digital Media)
Rafael Cirino
BA Design Student (Digital Media)
Patrícia Carrion
MA in Design Candidate
285,000,000
Number of people that are estimated to
be visually impaired worldwide
(World Health Organization, August 2014)
(World Health Organization, August 2014)
normal vision
moderate visual
impairment
severe visual
impairment
blindness
6 people were interviewed
Who are they?
What do they like to do?
Which challenges
do they face?
This is Aline
severely visually impaired
What they said
“Most of the tools designed to keep
memory rely on vision.”
What they said
“My memory is like a photo album to me.”
What they said
“The Eiffel Tower means nothing to me.
The most important is what I’ve done there.”
How to remember
fully sighted
places & events
visual tools
places & events
visual tools
How to remember
visually impaired
Opportunity
There is so much more to memorythan only visual aspects.
What is memory to you?
Remembering is our way of treasuring our past.
What is MESH?
PlatformWearable device
What does MESH do?
Capture and relive
sensations
Share and discover memories
to and from others
How to capture
Tap to activateVoice
Skin temperature Heart beat
How to relive
“Relive my memory”
“April 15, 2012”
“Rio de Janeiro”
Tap to activate
Search By location By dateBy user
“Relive memories randomly”
How to share
“Share on Facebook”
“Tag Maria Bonelli”
Shared directly to
someone’s MESHShare on social networks
Tap to activate
So, MESH is for whom?