Monday, October 3, 2011

Week 4- Input/Output


This week’s lecture is particularly pertinent to my project idea because my product will have to make use of input and output for it to work. I think that the way the mirror would identify what a shopper has brought into a dressing room would be through RFID tags. This would be more efficient than barcode scanning items and would require less work on the part of the customer. The RFID tags could be passive tags, as they would not need to work more than a few meters away from the mirror that would house the antenna, which would be reading the data on the RFID tags.

The mirror would most likely be touch screen to utilize the social media functions of the product. As such, it would be necessary to include a touchpad in the design. The touch pad would incorporate the detection of capacitance to allow the user to interact with the mirror.

Finally, during the designing process, there would need to be special attention paid to the resolution of the image being projected on the mirror. Fuzzy images due to a small number of megapixels in the captured image would be unacceptable. The optimal shopping experience would incorporate the best quality images possible to ensure the customer feels that they are getting the a shopping experience closest to that of the real experience of trying clothes on, without the hassle. 

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