The "sense of time" allows the user to actively see the time.

It's a clock not moving in real-time but needs a person to guess the time. It is placed in places where people have less exposure of the time (or real clock) and asks the person " what's the time?".

The guessing of time is where this clock is mostly focused on. To guess the time, a person has to look back at things one has done, compare that moment with the data pool and experience one has, and calculate the time based on one's own reasons and data. We are not passively realizing the time, but as we guess, we are actively owning the time.

The clock gives three different feedbacks.

"You have a sense of time" "Track back as you lost a certain amount of time" "You totally lost track of time, are you okay?"

Through this process, one can be pleased with how well one is tracking their time and living the moments. Or it might give you thoughts on how you are doing these days.

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The button on the right serves as a tool to guess the time and submit it.

The button on the top left serves as a tool to let a person know their records. The current text-based log suits the single-user and other visualization forms maybe needed for multi users.


You will encounter this device, where you are most prone to lose track of time

the quiet hallway where you quickly go through

the quiet hallway where you quickly go through

among the plants

among the plants

toilet

toilet


Components used

  1. Two rotary encoders

  2. Arduino NANO 33 for BLE communications