SeeMe is a collaborative physical-digital tree, positioned in an elementary school classroom, that helps pupils at 4th to 6th grade reflect the emotional experiences they are experiencing in the virtual space, by expressing them in the physical world through colors and sounds.
What is it?
SeeMe is a collaborative physical-digital tree, positioned in an elementary school classroom, that helps pupils at 4th to 6th grade reflect the emotional experiences they are experiencing in the virtual space, by expressing them in the physical world through colors and sounds.
The students report about positive and empowering experiences or negative and offensive experiences through a dedicated app, on the time after school.
The data is being sent to the tree in the classroom which processes the ratio of experiences reported in the previous day, so that positive experiences are expressed as green lights and negative experiences are expressed as red lights.
Project Info
Students: Gilad Efrati, Tomer Groisman, Shachar Davidi, Netanela Kopitz, Noy Stein
Lecturer: Dr. Noa Morag
Teaching Assistant: Ofir Sadka
Technological lecturer: Tzvika Markfeld
Industrial Designer: Sagi Maman
How Does It Work?
The technology is based on ESP8266 microcontroller, which operates a speaker and an individually addressable LED strip so that each LED bulb is colored and flashes according to the type of report it reflects. In order to be update, the microcontroller sends an HTTP request to a web server in the cloud, which retrieves and processes all new reports relevant to the specific class from a MongoDB database (using authentication), and returns as a response an index of the sound file to be played and a color array according to the number of LEDs in the controller.
A web application developed in React detects and allows children to report from their phones to a web server in the cloud using an appropriate HTTP request.