Empa, coming from "Empathy", literally means to understand you and delight you. As the project from Emergent User Interface course, we tailored our mindset to physical computing beyond the visible interface.
Targeting at the students and young professionals who have to sit for a long time and sometimes stressed out, we designed and built this smart wearable device with a smell dispenser. The highlight of Empa is Unconscious Adjustment: Your body signals of the temperature and the heartbeat implies the stress level, so there release a smooth fragrance when needed. As a result, you might feel happy again even without noticing it.
It was not elaborately refined though, that both the dispenser and the wristband should ideally be smaller. However, we achieved the objective of technically validating that everything works. ❤
