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LuMate – Enlight your work.

LuMate is a benevolent work lamp, your guide for good and effective working. LuMate helps you to structure your working schedule by reminding you of your concentration level and making a subtle call for a break or ending. It is creative, reluctant, supporting and on time. Being reliable, it sticks to the ideal working time conditions by illustrating the best practice to you. Its intention is to animate you to work in a similar manner and to adapt best working times. To demonstrate these working time conditions LuMate shows various behaviours through eight different positions which derive from the Chronobiology.

The Chronobiology is the science of time and refers to the day-night cycle that affects the human organism when the earth rotates. Every person has an internal clock that controls the physical, mental, and emotional functions without the need to interfere. The better we stick to these rhythms the greater the benefit is for us. The human 24 hour rhythm is shown in the chronobiological time cycle which contains the points in time every day that either support or block our work performance and so does LuMate. But how does LuMate perform these positions and which one illustrates which behaviour? In the morning LuMate is waiting on your desk at home or in your single office to support you during your work. It wakes up at 7 a.m. and is prepared for you to start the day by looking motivated around the room. After the peak of productivity at 11 a.m. the performance decreases till 12 a.m and LuMate deflates to show that it’s not a good time to work. Between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. LuMate indicates that it is time for the lunch break which should take 30 minutes plus a short nap. It turns away from you and stretches itself to show you that it is time to stand up and move. Until 3 p.m. LuMate increases its productivity until it suggests to quit work at 6 p.m. LuMate is getting tired as its head and body will sag down until it is completely asleep. If you want to continue working after LuMate is already asleep, you can try to wake it up by nudging it.

We developed LuMate especially for people who have a long working day at the desk at home or in the office. From our own experiences and some literature research we found out that these people often have long, unhealthy working periods without a defined ending or sufficient breaks. With LuMates help that nevertheless has its own character those people become supported and can get accustomed to the best working times.

LuMate – Enlight your work.

LuMate is a benevolent work lamp, your guide for good and effective working. LuMate helps you to structure your working schedule by reminding you of your concentration level and making a subtle call for a break or ending. It is creative, reluctant, supporting and on time. Being reliable, it sticks to the ideal working time conditions by illustrating the best practice to you. Its intention is to animate you to work in a similar manner and to adapt best working times. To demonstrate these working time conditions LuMate shows various behaviours through eight different positions which derive from the Chronobiology.

The Chronobiology is the science of time and refers to the day-night cycle that affects the human organism when the earth rotates. Every person has an internal clock that controls the physical, mental, and emotional functions without the need to interfere. The better we stick to these rhythms the greater the benefit is for us. The human 24 hour rhythm is shown in the chronobiological time cycle which contains the points in time every day that either support or block our work performance and so does LuMate. But how does LuMate perform these positions and which one illustrates which behaviour? In the morning LuMate is waiting on your desk at home or in your single office to support you during your work. It wakes up at 7 a.m. and is prepared for you to start the day by looking motivated around the room. After the peak of productivity at 11 a.m. the performance decreases till 12 a.m and LuMate deflates to show that it’s not a good time to work. Between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. LuMate indicates that it is time for the lunch break which should take 30 minutes plus a short nap. It turns away from you and stretches itself to show you that it is time to stand up and move. Until 3 p.m. LuMate increases its productivity until it suggests to quit work at 6 p.m. LuMate is getting tired as its head and body will sag down until it is completely asleep. If you want to continue working after LuMate is already asleep, you can try to wake it up by nudging it.

We developed LuMate especially for people who have a long working day at the desk at home or in the office. From our own experiences and some literature research we found out that these people often have long, unhealthy working periods without a defined ending or sufficient breaks. With LuMates help that nevertheless has its own character those people become supported and can get accustomed to the best working times.

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Konzept, Produktdesign, Prototyping, Arduino, 3D-Druck, Printdesign

Concept, product design, Prototyping, Arduino, 3D-Print, Printdesign

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Patricia Grobarek
Gerrit Großkopf
Lisa Knüver
Roxanne Keller
Ronda Ringfort
Lena Wiebringhaus

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