Can you remember your thoughts when you were 10?
Can you remember your feelings when you were 10?
How did you feel?
How did you think?
How did you feel?
How did you think?
How did you feel?
How did you think?
How did you feel?
How did you think?
How many photos do you have from last year?
No problem capturing our looks
How many photos did you have from your childhood?
Probably not as many
Phones fixed the problem of capturing our exterior
What if you have an album that saves your thoughts, feelings, and photos?
Prototype
3D Album
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Regular photo album
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Blank pages for
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drawing
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writing
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pasting photos
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Carefully picked prompts
Key features
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One book for a lifetime
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Beautifully and thoughtfully designed for every age accordingly
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Prompts based on psychology research
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Work with education institutes and parents to document early years of life and plant the seed to be sustainable
Writing thoughts & feelings benefits
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Helps in rationalizing thoughts/feelings
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Reduces stress
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Allows accounting for own life
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Elicits pleasure when reading those writings later due to reminiscence
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Creates a legacy that lives on
source: Ullrich and Lutgendorf 2002
It’s just my history, isn’t it?: Understanding Smart Journaling Practices
Competitors
- Electronic journaling apps, for example "Journey.cloud"
- Retrospective journal books, such as "Piccadilly"
- Daily journal books, such as "The One Minute Gratitude Journal"
Conclusion
- Collecting thoughts, feelings, and photos have great benefits
- People already collect more than enough photos
- Need to start collecting more thoughts and feelings
- Photo collection was solved by making it easy to capture photos
- 3D Album is a new product that will make it easy to capture thoughts and feelings, in addition to photos
- With 3D Album, more people will start collecting their thoughts and feelings so they reap the great benefits
References
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Elsden, Chris, et al. “It’s Just My History Isn’t It?” Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI ’16, 2016, 10.1145/2858036.2858103. Accessed 30 Sept. 2019.
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Richter, Felix. “Smartphones Cause Photography Boom.” Statista Infographics, 31 Aug. 2017, www.statista.com/chart/10913/number-of-photos-taken-worldwide/. Accessed 30 May 2021.
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Ullrich, Philip M., and Susan K. Lutgendorf. “Journaling about Stressful Events: Effects of Cognitive Processing and Emotional Expression.” Annals of Behavioral Medicine, vol. 24, no. 3, Aug. 2002, pp. 244–250, 10.1207/s15324796abm2403_10.
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Musgrave, Ruth A. “Why Your Child Needs to Start Journaling Now.” National Geography, 14 May 2020, www.nationalgeographic.com/family/article/why-your-child-needs-to-start-journaling-now-coronavirus. Accessed 2 June 2021.
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Caldeira, Clara et al. “Mobile apps for mood tracking: an analysis of features and user reviews.” AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium vol. 2017 495-504. 16 Apr. 2018
3D Album
By Mujtaba Al-Tameemi
