After gaining enough knowledge about the project we started with the ideation. 

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Ideation 1 & 2

Here you see the first ideation on how to make our participant more audible. You can see ideas ranging from microphones to things to hold to keep our participant's hands out of the way, to remind him of putting his hands down. You can see in the right top corner a way of supporting his presentation with visual aids and a button to help him keep track of where he is in his story. The sheet Ideation 2 shows more ideation on reminders for our participant to put his hands down. You see a picture frame that light up and talks, you can see the stress ball idea but then with a sensor detection when the cord stretches out too far. You can also see other sensor ideas with heartrate and proximity in the middle of the sheet. To the right there was an idea with a button, this was a more voluntary way of letting him get a reminder. On the left top there are some ideas on different types of speakers so in his ear, on his desk or on a wristband so when close to his ear he could hear it.  

 

Ideation 3

The ideation heavily focuses on the participants' use of hands. Through our interviews and talks with the participant we could understand that the hand movement becomes a problem for him. Some ideas are explored such as magnets or grips that he can hold on to help keep his hands in place. Another idea with hands is to have a sensor that measures if they get too close to his face, hindering his audibility to his audience. Moving away from the hands you can also see that there is a idea to involve his legs. This idea is generated from the fact that our participant loses the control of his upper body whilst his legs retain some control.  

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Ideation 4

When we first met Igor, he explained the problem with him putting his hand in front of his face. And one of the first things that came to our mind was trying to keep his hands busy. And one way to do that was to give him something in the form of a stress Ball which will be attached to a string. This will not restrict his hand movement by much but will be more of a reminder to move his hands down. We also hoped that when his hands are busy, they will also be less likely to go in front of his face. And in these sketches, I made various versions of this idea. With different placements of the ball and different shapes of the object that he will hold.  

The string will also be retractable, this since his reach does not go very far gand when the ball falls out of his hands and on the floor, he will not be able to reach it by himself.  

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Ideation 5

When ideating on different ways of preventing excessive hand movement, it was important to avoid the feeling of confinement. Instead, the design should always enable voluntary actions for the participant. For this reason, some initial designs were quickly rejected. Examples of discarded ideas included barriers to make arm movements more difficult, or wristbands that would be connected to a tensioned cable. Development only touched on these ideas when it was possible to execute them in a purely voluntary way. For instance, the tensioned cables were later combined with the idea of using stress balls, allowing the participant to let go of the ball at any time and move his hands freely. 

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