Okay, I’ve made myself focused on one and the most intuitive interaction between a person and a foot-paddled trash can, which is stepping over the paddle and then, the lid of trash can opens. At this moment, a person can actually see that the can is filled with smoke and hear the can smoking and coughing. Obviously, this is a pretty unhealthy can. The smoke is generated by dry ice and the sound will be trigged based on the light sensed by the photocell.
When the lid closes, the can has already been set up filled with smoke so people who are standing next to it may identify the case and probably wanna open the lid to see what is going on inside.
Until the lid opens, the sound of coughing will be played from laptop due to the light changes sensed by photocell (actually, the sound needs to come from a bluetooth speaker attached to the can). It is a silly idea but when smoke meets the sound of coughing, the combination of these two definitely leave an impression of being unhealthy.
The idea is to push people care more about trash can though this presentation is kind of abstract and ambiguous. The trash can is for collecting trash but still we can throw trash into can in a gentle way. I’ve found that a lot of people won’t follow the rule of trash classification though it is clearly labeled on each can. I may just wanna add some sound and visual effects to draw people’s attention on trash cans and may treat them a little bit better than they did previously.
Please don’t throw snipe into a trash can!
A video will be uploaded soon.
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