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Reem Abdelhaleem

Hi there, it's Reem! Industrial design intrigues me because of its marriage of art and science. I have a fine arts background and have been sketching since I could hold a pencil. When I found industrial design, it allowed me to create not only on paper but in tangible items. My aspiration is to continuously add art, science, and beauty to life around me.

The Four Essential Pillars for Design Excellence

The four essential pillars encompass human-centric design approach and the understanding of full-bodied, three dimensional physical interaction of user, product and environment. The projects generate innovative solutions using research-driven, evidence-based designs which focus on the user experience.

Enhancement of Human Lifestyle

Holokin advances human interaction with technology by bringing it into the third dimension.

The increased immersion created with holograms allows digital and physical realities to become meshed experiences. Its wide variety of usability can advance work in areas more than the office such as education, entertainment, art, and engineering. Dyslexics specifically in the workplace can leave the text-dense screens on their desktops and enter an augmented reality that suits their needs with visualization.

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Human-Interaction & User-Centric Design

The Holokin fits into the work office environment seamlessly. It has glove wearable controls that allow interaction with holograms to be intuitive and fun.

Haptic feedback in the fingertips allows the user to “feel” when the holograms are touched or interacted with through vibrations. This multisensory approach to computer control makes memorization and pattern learning easier for the dyslexic user. The 360-degree workspace also means that work is possible regardless of angle or position.

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Ergonomics & Human Factors Design

Holokin puts safety and ergonomics first, designed to prevent a prevalent safety issue in offices today: repetitive motion injury.

It can be used sitting, standing, or even walking around. Its wearable controls mimic natural human hand movements, unlike conventional computer mouses. The adjustable wrist straps and expanding and contracting fingertips adjust to individual finger radii, ensuring that the controller fits a variety of hand sizes and gestures.

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Sustainability & Social Responsibility

Creating a work environment that makes a fair playing field for everyone decreases the disproportionate poverty of neurodivergent groups and increases their self-confidence.

Neurodivergent office workers often do not get extra support for daily tasks and consistently try to overcome hidden disabilities with literacy. Holokin instead uses dyslexics’ hidden gifts of 3D spatial thinking to an advantage. Materials in the glove controller such as Piñatex, sourced from pineapple leaves, and recycled aluminum, ensure sustainably.

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Dyslexia & Innovative Workspaces

Project Summary

Dyslexia is a lifelong neurological condition, that affects a person's experience of learning and thinking processes, specifically literacy. It makes time-constrained literacy-based tasks and the memorization of patterns very strenuous. This results in greater challenges achieving social mobility and competing with neurotypical people in climbing the corporate ladder. These extra stressors result in low esteem and mental health issues. Holokin addresses these problems by leveraging the dyslexic thinkers' strengths such as 3D spatial thinking and visualization. Wearable glove controllers, reduce the user's struggles with memory and pattern recognition with intuitive motion. Haptic sensors additionally allow users to easily remember patterns with multisensory engagement. Holokin takes working to another dimension, that leverages strengths while alleviating weaknesses of dyslexic office workers.

Thesis Summary Motion Presentation

Holokin project summary Video

Holokin is an innovative 3-dimensional workstation that allows users to use their visual strengths to work intuitively with gestural control.

Thesis Development Process

Poster about how may we maximize productivity of dyslexic adults in the office

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