Curo
A home assistant for
your child's safety.
A home assistant for
your child's safety.
Curo is a social robot that combines the functionality of a baby sitter and the familiarity of a child’s toy to aid parents in transitioning their children towards being independent by giving back piece of mind and a sense of security.
Curo is a three-part system, incorporating a wagon, camera, and app all working together seamlessly. Children can use the wagon to store and access their toys and draw on the chalkboard side panels. While holding the familiarity of a children’s toy, the wagon motion sensors provide friendly auditory feedback. Located underneath the wagon is a hidden pressure sensor for emergencies that can be subtly triggered. Curo is also a security system connecting parents to their children. Parents will be alerted when interactions are detected from the wagon and may deny unrecognized faces detected from the camera. When parents want further communication, they can send messages and reminders from the app to the wagon.
Many parents struggle transitioning their children from adult supervision in their absence to allowing their children to stay home alone.
7 million of the nation’s 38 million children between the ages of 5-14 are left home alone on a regular basis.
Many parents struggle transitioning their children from adult supervision in their absence to gaining the comfort and confidence to stay home alone. Both men and women are working more hours than ever, relying on a patchwork of programs and support systems to makeup at least 13.5 hours of additional child care. With the rise in work children are destine to spend time alone, and the reality is being home alone for a child is fear evoking and anxiety ridden without the proper connection and communication.
Curo creates a functional ecosystem that eliminates the uncertainty and stress created for both parents and children when transitioning towards being independent at home.
Curo creates a sense of security for both the child and parent by boosting confidence in both while absent from one another.
Curo creates a connection through communication between both parent and child while absent from one another.
Through friendly interactive elements, Curo entertains the child through a connection that encourages continued interaction with the wagon.
Curo creates a sense of confidence in the child, increasing their independence while in the absence of their parents.
Curo Wagon
A child's toy without the additional screen!
The Curo wagon is designed to be friendly and transportable, allowing the child to bring the Curo wagon with them. The wagon is equipped with many safety and communication features for both child and parent. Designed to be intentionally discrete, the pressure sensor underneath the wagon is designed for the child to suddenly trigger if there is an emergency. With motional sensors inside, the Curo wagon sends an alert to the Curo app that interaction has been detected. To keep the toy entertaining we added sound feedback ability for parents to leave voice messages or reminders for their kids.
Curo Camera
Giving parents peace of mind.
The Curo camera features 180° wide view security monitoring. Fully equipped with facial recognition, parents can connect to their app and monitor faces in the house or set up push notifications. The parent can either accept or deny the face, if denied the emergency protocol set up for the account will be activated.
Curo App
Remain connected to your child no matter the time or place.
The Curo application is a major component in the connection between parent and child. The Curo app is the main hub for parents to communicate back and forth with alerts, reminders and messages for their child. The app is also where parents will monitor and track interaction notifications, as well as monitor who may be in the house with using the Curo camera facial recognition.
Facial recognition
Monitor your child's safety
The Sift size assistant is introduced in the initial on boarding. Users follow the measuring prompts on each screen and input their corresponding measurements. The size assistant is not only a way to mimic in person shopping interactions with a store associate, but also allow Sift to better personalize your sifted items based on your fit preferences. All measurements can be changed in the profile tab of the app.
Real time Alerts
Finding the right size is hard. Don’t worry, Sift has you covered!
The Sift size assistant is introduced in the initial on boarding. Users follow the measuring prompts on each screen and input their corresponding measurements. The size assistant is not only a way to mimic in person shopping interactions with a store associate, but also allow Sift to better personalize your sifted items based on your fit preferences. All measurements can be changed in the profile tab of the app.
Arduino Code
Brining our concept to life.
Using the Arduino hardware and software we created a fully functioning Curo ecosystem. If you are interested in seeing any the working Arduino code please reach out!
Problem Statement - For this project our challenge was to create a social robot. Having younger siblings and various family members with young kids we understood the constant battle parents faced when watching their children grow. As a team we had a shared experience of being very fearful of being home alone when children which has in turn left and impact on us as adults.
Research - We conducted two weeks of various user research methods. We had to get creative with our approach to user research since our target audience was young children. Through these adapted methods we found our area of opportunity, draw user insights & findings, all to create our design framework.
Prototyping -We began by developing a low-fi Curo wagon to test. We then moved to create a mid-fi followed by a high-fi product.
Evaluation - Finally, we conducted user testing to evaluate and evolve our design ultimately creating Curo!
To read more in depth about each step of the creation of Curo visit our process book!
Electronic Prototyping for Designers
Professor Sung Park
10 Weeks
09.11.19 - 11.14.19
Abby Turner
Athena Giani
Tiffany Choi
Taylor Primuth
Visual Design Lead
UI Designer
Arduino Engineer
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