This smart dumbbell, designed for deaf users, uses vibration and light cues for real-time feedback and modular weights for personalized training. It combines music through bone conduction and visual effects, tracks fitness metrics, and incorporates gamification and online communities for an immersive and enjoyable fitness experience.
Background Research
Background StoryThis smart barbell is tailor-made for deaf people and helps users to enhance their training through heart rate monitoring and exercise tracking, and real-time adjustment of music beats. It utilizes vibration and music (converted to bone conduction or light cues) feedback to remind users to exercise in the right intensity zone to avoid overtraining, and provides detailed data feedback such as average heart rate and calories burned at the end of the workout. Through gamification design and visual expression, it builds an interactive community to support off-site online competition and cooperation, increasing fun and immersion. The barbell adopts a modular design, allowing users to choose different weights according to their needs. The overall design aims to optimize the fitness experience of deaf people and promote health management.
Secondary Research
Literature research
User Research
I interviewed three deaf people who start losing their hearing at different times
2.What features do you think could be added to the dumbbell to make your experience with it better?
3.How do you typically maintain a rhythm while using a dumbbell? Do you use any aids (e.g., visual cues, vibration devices) to help yourself?
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Product
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Game Mode UI
Prototype
Arduino Testing Video
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