Color Melody
Colormelody is an android app for color blindness. It mapping colors to different music notes, instead of actually "seeing" colors, users can "hear" it. In this way, color blindness user can understand colors in another interesting way.
Timeline: Feb. 2015 -- Apr. 2015
Role: Developer & Interaction designer
DESIGN CONCEPT
-Hearing
Do you know that :
About 0.5% of all women are suffering from color blindness. When it comes to man, this number will increase to 8%.
How can a total color blindness define "Red" ? It's the color of rose and sunset, also the color of Passion and Energy. For color blindness, since they can not actually "see" these colors, we defined a new way for them to "feel it" .
Map color to music note, through real-time camera, user can touch and listen to different colors.
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HOW IT WORKS
Through the real-time camera, users can interact with color through their phones. We defined different ways for user to interact with phone. Pointing, Sliding, Long-press. It will be explained in detail in scenarios.
VIDEO
real-time camera
pointing
Real-time camera: use real-time camera to capture colors from our life.
Pointing: point on the screen to select a color, relevant music will be played and a color panel will show up.
Shifting: Long click on one point, there will be a panel with zoom in view pop up, user can choose more detailed color.
Sliding: Slidng on the screen, it will play a series of music.
shifting
sliding
SCENARIOS
