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What Is Vinetality?
What Is Vinetality?
Product Description:
Vinetality is a small, portable keychain interface that provides tangible feedback to support productivity, well-being, and community building.
Problem Statement:
Students and young professionals working independently in mobile environments often struggle to balance productivity, stress, and a sense of community. Existing apps and tools provide limited emotional engagement and fail to offer meaningful feedback or connection.
Innovation:
A physical, shape-changing representation of measured well-being + creative community building.
Erika Saur '25
Erika Saur '25
CS & Psychology @ Wellesley College
es122@wellesley.edu
Malinda Lu '26
Malinda Lu '26
CS & Math @ Wellesley College
ml119@wellesley.edu
Sophia Xin '26
Sophia Xin '26
Media Arts and Sciences & Psychology @ Wellesley College
sx103@wellesley.edu
Conceptual Design
Conceptual Design
The user carries the TUI with them as they study in mobile environments such as a coffee shop or a library. The plant grows and wilts to indicate levels of productivity and stress as tracked and sensed intelligently through the user's electronic devices. TUIs in the vicinity causes the plants to light up, and the mobile environment provides clip-on decorations that helps build a community of TUI users through the collectibles.
User Flow Chart
User Flow Chart
A chart showing how Vinetality responds to user actions and how the intended user reponds to the tangible feedback
Tangibility Design
Tangibility Design
A sketch of the components of tangible feedback given by Vinetality, as well as the decorative aspects
Designing Through Six Thinking Hats
Designing Through Six Thinking Hats
The framework of six thinking hats was used to analyze measures such as feasibility, creativity, and potential challenges of the conceptual design before implementation.
Design Process and Artifacts
Design Process and Artifacts
Concept Sketch
Concept Sketch
Sketch illustrating the intended keychain design with an iridescent translucent cube and a vine growing out from the center.
1) Low-Fidelity Prototype
1) Low-Fidelity Prototype
Low-Fidelity Look
Low-Fidelity Look
3d-printed box and metal/fabric plant demonstrating the size of the fully grown vine
Low-Fidelity Mechanics
Low-Fidelity Mechanics
Pipecleaner on a spool to simulate the stored wire that would unwind and grow the plant upward
2) Mixed-Fidelity Prototype
2) Mixed-Fidelity Prototype
To have a flower that's durable enough to survive travel for our mobile users, we experimented with having a 3d-printed flower. This design has a gear system that allows the flower to open with horizontal rotation.
Linear Gear Actuator
Linear Gear Actuator
Linear actuator that turns the rotational force of the servo motor into linear action
Servo Motor and Arduino Board
Servo Motor and Arduino Board
Arduino board connecting the servo motor with the computer
3) High-Fidelity Prototype
3) High-Fidelity Prototype
The gear system resides in a portable frame, which pushes the flower upward to bloom as it receives signals from the user's productivity and well-being tracker.
Demo of Prototype:
4) Final Prototype
4) Final Prototype
This newest version focused more on the desig of the tangible interface, reducing the size of the gear system and the container box by 30%.
Demo of Newest Prototype:
5) Future Implementations
5) Future Implementations
3D printed blooming flower in its closed state
The 3D model's actuators that turns linear force into blooming action
How the flower connects to the gear and linear actuator system
Blender design for a connected box, flower, and linear actuator
For more information on the technical implementation, you can visit our GitHub Repository!
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