Young Designers '13

Diploma Project

Worker Safety in the Digital Age

An Exploration of Embedding Intelligence at the Systems Level and Possible Interaction Paradigm

Keywords

Worker safety
Systems design
Behaviour modification
Internet of Things

Student

Gouri Shah

gouri.s.shah@gmail.com
http://be.net/GouriShah

Guide

Dr S Ghosal

sghosal@nid.edu

Sponsor

Honeywell Technology Solutions

Synopsis

The project explored the possibilities of incorporating intelligence into the safety world. The agenda was to envision scenarios where safety is improved by digital means. It consisted of understanding the domain, the ecosystem, the trends, the drivers for change etc., to generate opportunities and concepts to be formulated into a product or service or a set of features.

A system design was proposed to ensure compliance in an industrial setting and solutions for worker behaviour modification. The design intervention aimed at an exploration of embedding intelligence at systems level and developing newer interaction paradigms.