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Nemoo Physical Memory Capture System by Yan Yan Wins the A' Design Award in Baby, Kids' and Children's Products Design
Yan Yan honored for baby, kids' and children's products design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Nemoo Physical Memory Capture System by Yan Yan has been granted the A' Design Award in the Baby, Kids' and Children's Products Design category. The award was conferred within the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the A' Design Award
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
About Nemoo Physical Memory Capture System
Nemoo is a physical memory capture system designed for fighting against infantile amnesia. It assists with tracking a baby's memory from its perspective for the first three years of its life. It also allows retrieving the important moments in the baby’s growth by playback with virtual reality glasses. The system consists of a baby wearable device, app, and virtual reality glasses. Nemoo wants to build a connection between childhood memory and future self, to help users know themselves better and retrieve the lost childhood.
About Yan Yan
Yan Yan is a highly accomplished interdisciplinary designer, focusing her work on critiquing and interpreting the social landscape through the creation of artifacts and narratives infused with critical thinking. For Yan, design is a tool for exploring the truth about the world and the internal universe. Her approach involves pushing experimental boundaries and imagining fictional scenarios that speak to contemporary social behavior. Yan's works encourage viewers to reflect on their personal experiences through a systematic and hypothetical lens. Yan earned her MFA in design from the California College of the Arts and currently works as a Product Designer at Captiv8.
Award Record
With this recognition, Yan Yan is a winner of 2 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted in the 2020 - 2021 edition of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Baby, Kids and Children's Products Design Award
The A' Baby Products Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good baby product designs by leading brands and designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to baby product designers, industrial designers, toy companies and children's product manufacturers from all countries. Typical entries include strollers, car seats, baby monitors, high chairs, baby bottles and pacifiers. The awarded baby products designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/baby-products
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/121846
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/121846
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!121846
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/302264
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Nemoo Physical Memory Capture System
- Function
- Physical Memory Capture System
- Category
- Baby, Kids' and Children's Products Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Kids
- Colors
- Old Lace, Light Gray, Rosy Brown, Antique White and Tan
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Yan Yan
- Country
- United States of America
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #121846
Credits
- Team
- Siyu Zhang, Xiaodong Ma
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Nemoo is a physical memory capture system designed for fighting against infantile amnesia. It assists with tracking a baby's memory from its perspective for the first three years of its life. It also allows retrieving the important moments in the baby’s growth by playback with VR glasses. The system consists of a baby wearable device, app, and VR glasses.
- Inspiration
- The name Nemoo is inspired by the movie Finding Dory. Dory suffers from memory loss every 10 seconds. With help from her friend Nemo, Dory finds her lost memory and embarks on an epic adventure to find her parents. Nemoo helps users retrieve their early memories. The package looks like a dairy book. Nemoo uses its package for charging and storing which can be cherished and stored in the bookshelf for a long time.
- Research
- Childhood Amnesia, also called infantile amnesia, is the inability of adults to retrieve episodic memories, which are memories of specific events, such as times, places, associated emotionally and other contexts like who, what, when, and where, before the age of 3 years old.
- Challenge
- There are 3 main challenges. Firstly, it's to differentiate it from the regular baby monitor, so we tried to think from a baby’s perspective, including more immersive experience through a VR converting function. The second challenge is when we made the functional model. It was hard to cast a tiny model with comparable sophisticated electronic components. The third challenge is the difficulties of finding an appropriate material to cast the model. It has to be a baby-child friendly material should be soft enough to be touched by an infant baby. Also hard enough to be held in baby’s clothes.
- Realization and Technology
- Spy Camera AOBO; SR-2238 Silicon Rubber/Fabric
- Operation and Interaction
- By simply attaching Nemoo to baby's hats, it can record the child’s memory from the baby’s perspective. When parents discover a memorable moment, the parent can say the trigger word to start recording. Through the Bluetooth connection, the NEMOO mobile app can remotely manage the settings and storage. With the NEMOO app, the child’s footage is transferred to the parent's phone and automatically transformed into a memorable VR story. It also can connect more than two Nemoo devices at the same time.
- Project Duration and Location
- This project started and ended in San Francisco in 4 months.
- Specifications
- 2.55 inch W/ 1.80 inch H/ 1.50 inch D
- Keywords
- memory retrieving, VR, baby’s perspective, immersive experience, Finding Dory,
