CUE is a concept designed for the modern family that enables dynamic communication and shared entertainment experiences. CUE provides a rich and dynamic communication experience from home by making video connections with friends and loved ones easy, intuitive, and fast. When docked, or upright, CUE functions as a full screen video chat device. When idle, it provides those nearby with a personalized media memory stream that might include favorite pictures and videos of those in its proximity. When the CUE is moved to a flat position, it switches to a fun and interactive touch screen gaming device. CUE provides a highly sensorial game play experience that incorporates haptic feedback, sound, and dynamic visuals. Through it’s camera, CUE recognizes its users and therefore is able to provide a highly personalized and intuitive touch screen interface in both modes.

Today’s American Family is challenged by limited interaction. Undesirable work & life balances bring challenges to families, and because of this, American families today spend on average just 45 minutes per day together either over dinner, or while watching TV. Families today are challenged by a lack of common interests across generations and parents are finding it increasingly difficult to understand their own children. Children, left on their own, struggle to absorb, reflect, and respect family values. That said, companionship is increasingly found outside the family unit. Families today yearn for companionship and communication and compensate for these needs with technology. CUE is a product concept designed for the modern family that enables dynamic communication and shared entertainment experiences.

The CUE succeeds in its goal to create an emotional bond between itself and its users by enabling its users to feel engaged, connected, and energized. These qualities are achieved by embodying the following principles:

• Sensory: Enables its users to feel alive by engaging the senses and awaking emotions through feelings of nostalgia.
• Emotional: Reflects the human experience through emotional qualities.
• Inclusive: Allows for simultaneous participation and accommodate for differing tastes in entertainment.
• Communicative: Facilitates face-to-face interaction, and relationship maintenance.
• Social: Aids communication between its users and not isolate them.
• Participation: Encourages equal participation from all active users.
• Intuitive: Embodies both digital and physical affordances to provide NUI.

Mock up Materials
Tablet:
Screen- Clear acrylic silk screened, then sprayed black
Lighting- Clear acrylic (milky finish to help lighting effects)
Rear Casing- ABS with a glossy pearl white finish
Speaker Mesh- Perforated black ABS

Docking:
Base- Milled aluminum (Anodized charcoal black) Sandblasted look finish
Base Contacts- Metal (Chrome polish)
Base Cover- ABS (Matte black)
Base Damper- ABS (Soft feel paint finish)

-Multi-touch consists of a touch screen (screen,overlay, table, wall, etc.) or touch pad, as well as software that recognizes multiple simultaneous touch points
-Identity recognition via proximity sensing camera
-An accelerometer- single- and multi-axis models are available to detect magnitude and direction of the acceleration as a vector quantity, and can be used to sense orientation.
Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe AfterEffects, Adobe Flash, Alias, Rhino, Hypershot, Quicktime

(1) To explore the emotional relationship and bond between products and their users (2) Leverage design research and product design in the exploration of the following design qualities: Reflectivity, Affection, and Continuity.



* Designed in collaboration with Prashant Desai(Design Researcher), Jason Chung(Product Designer), and Tyler Moffet(Product Designer) as a part of Samsung Design, America.

* Bronze Prize winner during the Samsung Global Design Membership Competition.