The concrete design

This morning we sat down to put down our ideas to paper. This is the concrete design concept that we came up with.

IDEA

With lighting in the train cart floor indicate to travellers if they should move further into the cart or not.

TARGET GROUP

Our idea primarily applies to people traveling in event traffic with focus on those who does not understand that they are causing crowding when they stop right at the doors.

However, we still think this idea also is very applicable in a most general setting.

PHYSICALITIES

We imagine our idea as some kind of flooring which would be interactively accessible to travellers. It should be a very simple design where the system does the thinking for you. As a traveller you should just have to stand at the right place, for example: In the middle of the train cart where usually less people stands. If you are standing in the wrong or right place the system will indicate this with some form of lighting.

INTERVIEWS

Based on interviewees thoughts and views on this route we identified this problem. Most interviewees complained about trains being extra crowded after an event and moderately crowded about half an hour before.

COGNITIVE ASPECT

Since this design rely on quite simple designs it is important to get those right. We believe the design should be backed up by thorough material on how smaller crowds react in this environment, they respond to colours and how this process should be carried through.