The picture show how mass the MTR station is and we definitely need a new MTR station to improve this traveling experience. This project aims to connecting the people inside the MTR and waiting in the station through an Interactive MTR station. When people are able to communicate, we believe the space could be organized and people have chance to change from suffering enjoying. For example, the system can detect how many people are in each carriage, and make this information visible and deliver to the people waiting in station, and also the waiting area can be shaped and transformed according to this information. In this case, the users are leaded into the carriage with less people and avoid crowd, so the experience will easily be improved and the users will enjoy this trip more.
Application Design Worksheet:
The Hong Kong passengers in the context of waiting in MTR or train station is expected to interact with the passengers inside MTR or train though the interactive station as a way to lead people to those carriage have less people.
What are the factors that the system is responding to: (Data Sets)
1) Direct Physical interaction with the station
2) Direct Virtual user interaction via the station information system
3) Human Activity of a particular group in a particular place (input data sets)
Practically what does it do?
System is networked to understand and react collaboratively. The information of the passengers inside the MTR or train and the passengers waiting in the station can be exchanged. The information is mainly about how many are they and what are their positions.
Understands occupant location definition
The system should understand how many people there are in each carriage and where are they stand, and transform this information into intuitive visible signal to inform the people waiting in station
Provide flexible infrastructure
There are frames in the station which can be bend out in order to indicate how many people is inside each carriage and what are their positions, and to shape waiting area with reasonable size in front of each carriage.
How does it do it?
Wireless data transfer to central control room
Motion or IR sensors or
Footfall identification with touch sensors
Kinetic transformation
