Explore Traditional
Chinese Medicine
Verify the meridian in TCM with science and technology to get insight into body condition
Overview
This project is about collecting daily physiology data from sleep, relaxation, and exercise by wearing a smartwatch and a heart monitor for the research which to quantify the data of meridian in TCM about body condition.
Team
UI/Visual Designer
Product Designer
UX Designer
Software Engineers
Category
Healthcare
Problem
Western medicine depends on accurate data and equipment to treat individual symptoms. The advantages of western medicine can quickly prevent and treat disease in acute illness, trauma, viral and bacterial infections. However, the treatment of chronic diseases is minimal. It can't make quantitative data diagnosis for the entire human body system. The medicine may even cause serious side effects.
Traditional Chinese medicine focuses on balancing the various subsystems in the human body. This balance mainly manifests in people's spirit, appetite, sleep, digestion, etc. However, there is no specific model to quantify the mathematical methods between systems. Therefore, it depends on observing symptoms and experience to learn the accuracy of diagnosis. In addition, it is difficult to have a visible measurement standard for patients' subjective feelings. TCM needs a measure and quantitative model to pass on.
Therefore, this project will research with scientific verification to discover more insights into the meridian in TCM by collecting human daily physiology data.
Mission
Accumulate personal physiological data through heart rate, breathing, and sleeping by wearing our Smart Watch, Heart Monitor, and fill-in questionnaires. The data would provide the researchers with analysis to verify the theory of Chinese Meridian.
Objective
Attract people to join the project and participate the crowdfunding to buy smart devices. Every participant is a significant contributor to providing their physiological data. We encourage people to keep wearing and complete the missions. The more they achieve, the more helpful for developing the research.
How does the project go?
Install the Devices
Record Body Condition with Daily Activities
Install Heart Monitor
Install Smart Watch
Install App and pair
to the devices
Collect Sleep Data
Collect Heart Rate in Exercise
Collect Heart Rate in Relaxation
Analyze the data for research
The researcher analyze the data and find the insights of TCM
Participants
People are interested in TCM and look forward to seeing the new development of TCM.
People are busy working every day and want to care about their body condition.
Information
Architecture
Solution
The project is about exploring the deeper insights of TCM. I used laboratory as a concept for a visual style that means experiment and discovery. The primary color green emphasizes that humans need to follow the natural rule with proper exercise and rest. The secondary color is blue-purple, which implies exploring the mystery of TCM in a scientific way.
GUI Design
Pairing Devices Page
Not pairing yet
Remind to update
Connected devices
Devices run out of battery
Stats
Stats is to show the result of physiological data from the Smart Devices. It includes heart rate condition, daily relaxed and active status, Sleep Quality, Sleep Stage analysis, and Sleep Posture. Day-View analyzes the status of daily relaxed and active in a micro way. Body Stats is based on the macro to examine the proportion of daily relaxation and dynamic conditions.
Enlarge view of DAY-VIEW
Enlarge view of Sleep Stage
Enlarge view of Body State
Enlarge view of Sleep History
Mission
Every two weeks, participants would get the new mission that includes wearing a smartwatch, a heart monitor, and answering the survey. The goal is to encourage participants to check the wearing progress and see self-heath conditions.
Hasn't Connected Devices
Wearing Devices
Connected Devices and completed mission
The Lab
The lab is like a report to show the mission progress of self and all participants. We want to inspire users to feel accomplishment and keep wearing devices to complete the tasks.
Style Guide
Typography
Color Palettes
Components
