The Design Brief – The Khada Blessing
Chen Huang
Product Description
A mobile phone application designed to send visualized and virtual Khada blessings.
Goals
- First virtual Khada blessings mobile phone program in the market.
- It is an alternative way of showing love and care to other people.
- It has special cultural and ritual meanings, and it represents an ancient civilization.
Primary User
- Tibetan residents
- Visitors
Assumptions
- Design constrained by certain geographic features.
- Design constrained by accessibility to the devices.
Users Needs
- Users need implicit way to show their care for others, in comparison with direct verbal communication.
- Khada is endowed with ancient civilization, and it is considered as 'the purest' and 'the most honored' blessing in Tibet culture (this is widely known among Chinese population). People (especially orient people) tends to have superstitious belief in such thing. From a psychological point of view, Khada blessing has much more sincerity than a normal blessing.
Functional Requirements
- Java enable mobile device.
- MMS (Multi-Media Messaging Service) enable mobile device.
- TFT (Thin Film Transistor) color screen mobile device.
Technical Specifications
Not yet available.
last edited - 03/09/06
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在寺院敬献哈达的颜色不同,则所求亦不同。白色哈达代表祈求平安、吉祥；黄色代表祈求官运、仕途；蓝色代表祈求健康、长寿；红色代祈表求婚姻；绿色代表祈求生育子女。
哈达与哈达文化
西藏的“哈达文化”
Culture of Tibet
| Khada |
| Khada is well known Silk prayer scarves that is commonly used in Buddhist culture while greets to guests, offering at Gompa or at Chortens and more to offer to the God. It is one of the most important ritual items in Tibetan and Nepalese Buddhists as there are eight auspicious signs and OM MANI PADME HUM mantra printed all around. Khada is to offer to extend blessing and good fortune. Each packet contains four cream or white colour silk prayer scarves. |
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Traces of an Imaginary Affair | 2006
Mixed media | 1 object | 9 photos
Many relationships are emotional battlegrounds for all kinds of psychotic disorders and delusions, with partners often engaging in various forms of psychological torture. One of the strongest emotions between partners is the feeling of jealousy that is, according to the French LittrÈ, a feeling which is ‘born in love and which is produced by the fear that the loved person prefers someone else’.
This feeling is often intentionally instigated by women as well as men to change the behaviour of their partner. The resulting jealous behaviour may then improve one’s self-esteem or may be used to test the strength of the relationship.
The Traces of an Imaginary Affair project investigates this feeling through a kit containing a set of nine devices which leave traces of such an imaginary affair. The tools leave marks on the body such as bite marks, carpet burns, bondage marks, love bites, scratches and bruises. Probes of perfume, lipstick and hair can be applied to either the body or clothes.
The project examines the world of private psychological warfare within relationships, in which obsessive behaviour and disorders surface. Rather than offering the common approach of subjecting these to restrictive cultural norms, the kit enables people to exhibit them in a most effective way.
Concept, Design and Art Direction | Björn Franke
Photographer | Jonas Unger
© 2006 Björn Franke
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According to the Tibetan tradition, when one greets a Rinpoche or a monk/nun, one would offer a white Hada (or Khatag) which is a silk scarf. Presenting Hada (or Khatag) is traditional practice of respect and hospitality in Tibet, and will be appreciated by your host.
I am designing a virtual KHATAG. A vistor will receive a virtual KHATAG and greetings on his / her mobile phone when entering to Tibet. For example, Lasha. ¶ 12:47 AM 0 comments
Most Tibetians go worship in different stages of lifes. Some need to travel for long time (month and years) to get to the temple.
My purpose is to design a message system that Tibentian can txt their wish and send it to their wishing Temple. Lamas in the temple will print those wishes out and give it to the "Dalai Lama" which is the "god" in their system. ¶ 12:29 AM 0 comments
数百年来，印度教“甘尼许”（Ganesh）神的忠实信徒们光脚从家里出发，徒步走向寺庙进行朝拜。信徒们相信，象头大肚的“甘尼许”神能驱走妨碍人们从事购置房产、开厂设店等活动的障碍。在被视为神日的星期二，信徒们通常需要等候五个小时才能进入寺庙。
现在，科技让朝圣者们向“甘尼许”神的祈祷变得容易了。每周三，寺庙里的两名修行者会把印度各地手机用户向“甘尼许”神发送的祈祷短信息逐一打印出来——每周大约有7万条这样的短信息，然后把它们折叠整齐，放进“甘尼许”神像旁边的一个箱子里。
埃及大众信息公司今年1月开始向穆斯林礼拜者推出了一项名为qibla（阿拉伯语“方向”的意思）的服务。用户一次性支付1.27美元的费用后就可以下载一个应用软件到手机上。这个软件能够使手机显示穆斯林圣地麦加的方向，并能提醒用户每天五次礼拜的时间。这项新服务预计将在本财政年度为公司创造10万美元的收入。
英特尔公司的人类学家吉纳维芙·贝尔博士，目前正在研究人类如何运用技术的课题，他说：“在美国，手机可能主要是一种通讯工具。在韩国，它可能是一种维护社会人际网络的工具。在马来西亚，它可能就是一个精神信仰的工具。” ¶ 12:14 AM 0 comments
RCA Summer Show 2006
Joseph Malia：为过份沉溺上网的电脑强迫症人士设计的装置。
Sohui Won: 为幽闭症患者设计的电话。
Eriko Matsumura(松村江里子)：通过吹吸气来移动电脑屏幕上的图标，打破虚拟世界与物理世界的边界。
Matthew Brown：会发出声音的玩偶。
Tania Fox：会弹出来的衣领，可以在公共空间里为你创造一个私人空间
Jack Schulze: 不能拿在手里太久的金属电话，温度过高的话，它会融化。
Jack Schulze还设计了一种带USB接口的玩具：当你上网聊天时，你的网友一上线，它就站起来；你的网友一下线，它就倒下去。这个作品没有在夏季展上出现，我是在他的个人网站上找到的。
Fiona Raby是RCA互动设计系的导师，她与丈夫Anthony Dunne合组的Dunne and Raby是英国工业和互动设计的著名工作室之一。以上是他们的设计作品之一：寄生灯，利用室内的静电来照明，达到节能和环保的目的。
Dunne and Raby作品：安装有指南针功能的桌子。
Dunne and Raby作品：可以排放静电的凳子。
Dunne and Raby作品：可以进行全球定位(GPS)的桌子。
RCA夏季毕业展除了互动设计还有建筑及视觉传达设计等其它专业的作品，Chiho Kato便是属于视觉传达设计的，其作品是一份袖珍报纸。 ¶ 1:41 AM 0 comments
Okay... Here are the two new ideas I've came up with:
1. A Mobile Dating system. http://txt2click.ninemsn.com.au/
2. A Voting system for entertainment purpose maybe? e.g. vote for you fav. singer.
3. Some kind of education game. I saw an intersting device in Kinokuniya Book Store today called "INTELLIQUEST" which may be useful if I want to go with the education game idea. ¶ 1:00 AM 0 comments
