The Physical Computing Final Project

Students: Stella Kim, Andrea Dulko
Title: S.W.I (Spelling While Intoxicated)...now known as SpElmo

Intention: To create a jestful way of helping consumers of alcohol diminish black outs and unconsciousness due to overconsumption; creating self awareness and a signal for others when enough is enough, helping to prolong fun and enjoyment.

The Project:(pictures coming soon...it'll be easier to visualize and understand)
We are creating a one player spelling bee game where a big plant will vomit your drink into your cup depending on how many questions you get right in one minute. There will be 4 possible results depending on your percentage of correct answers in the given time. The player can not move onto the next word until the current word is spelled correctly. If you get x amount of questions right your winning drink will be, from lowest to highest(percentage of alcohol) Water, Beer, Vodka, or Whiskey respectively. The user will be provided with a small keypad where they can push the correct letters. The word will be spoken through a piezo and there will also be a sound that lets the player know that they have spelled incorrectly.


Aim and Arguments: We hope that the game will help users regulate their drinking and hopefully display the effects of alcohol on their brain functions in an engaging way to not only the user but to others around them. We hope that by supplying water when the user results in a low score will aid in sobering up by hydrating and/or diminishing hangovers. We also hope that the game will alert the player and/or friends around them that they have reached their alcohol consumption limit.

User Testing: We hope to set the game up in an open space(where everyone is of course legally of drinking age)and set up a video camera to watch and show how people interact with the game at different states of drunkenness as they continue to play and how others around them react/interact.

For the final outcome please goto Sausages on the right and click on SpElmo. Thank you!