MooDoor: Interactive Door Displays for Community Resilience
The Problem
In the last decade, many countries suffered from natural disasters. Relying on physical infrastructure alone is not sufficient. Instead, cities are advised to invest more in community resilience.
The Approach & Architecture
We proposed MooDoor, an interactive door that promotes neighborhood bonding in the context of a local community and smart city. MooDoor is presented in two modes: mood mode and alert mode.
- Mood mode: aims to strengthen the bonding between neighbors in everyday life by letting users display their frame of mind onto MooDoor. To do so, MooDoor is equipped with a digital display that shows the user’s emotions using patterns, colors, icons and emojis.
- Alert mode: is triggered whenever a natural disaster happens and aims to ensure an individual’s safety, exchange information with the authorities and coordinate recovery activities.
Outcome & What I Learned
Our work contributes by proposing a novel smart city technology that explores the design spaces of a house. This study explores an innovative smart city technology that strengthens social capital and subsequently leads to stronger community resilience against the shock of natural events.
