Social Butterfly, 2018.
Social Butterfly encourages activity-based socialization amongst children using wings as a medium, capturing the playfulness, confidence, and larger-than-life personality associated with wearing wings. The wearer can attract the attention of nearby playmates by triggering a motor-actuated fluttering motion. Our wings also celebrate creativity and foster conversation – children can draw and write on six panels to create a set of visual, personalized conversation topics. Playmates can touch a fragment of the wing mosaic, which illuminates a panel as a conversation starter.
Social Butterfly Team
Design
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Social Butterfly was the collaborative effort of Justine Chia, Vivian Liu, Varna Vasudevan, and Yuki Zhan. Its creation was guided by the expertise of Invention Lab managers and supervisors Chris Myers, Kuan-Ju Wu, and Mitchell Karchemsky. Justine is a neurobiologist who loves exploring and creating at the intersection of art and science. Vivian is an undergraduate who enjoys pulling 2D into 3D through creative computing. Varna is an undergraduate interested in creating delightful user experiences through physical and digital product design. Yuki is a masters student delighted in engineering beautiful and functional things.
Justine Chia
Ph.D. Molecular & Cell Biology, 2019
Vivian Liu
B.A. Cognitive Science and Computer Science, 2019
Varna Vasudevan
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, 2019
Yuki Zhan
M.S. Mechanical Engineering, 2018
Justine Chia
Ph.D. Molecular & Cell Biology, 2019
Vivian Liu
B.A. Cognitive Science and Computer Science, 2019
Varna Vasudevan
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, 2019
Yuki Zhan
M.S. Mechanical Engineering, 2018