Sleep Mode
Sleep Mode, 2017
Arduino-contolled LED strip and speakers, pillow, Yonder phone case
Sleep Mode is a physical computing project that, through the language of Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse, earnestly explores smartphone relationships and emotional regulation without the suggestion of “addiction.” Sleep Mode asks users to put their smartphones in the locking case and listen to your phone’s beating heart.
Read the paper published in CHI ‘21 proceedings.