Rumble Buddy
Helping college students in urban areas conveniently interact with nature through sound to promote calmness and focus after overstimulating and stressful days.
Students in urban areas are stressed, overstimulated, and have trouble with sleep and focus.
City sounds can be distracting while trying to sleep or study, and students often lack the time to travel outdoors.
Demonstration Video
A pillow that plays soothing thunder and rain sounds along with ambient lighting, when you hug it, for studying, lounging, and sleeping.
Ideation
Refinement
Based on where the body makes contact with Rumble Buddy different sounds will play synced with light for 30 minutes. The sound can be on, separate from the lights.
Testing Sensor Placement (shown using tape)
Research
Benefits of Thunderstorm Sounds
The low-frequency rumble of thunder activates our parasympathetic nervous system, responsible for promoting relaxation.
Artificial noise causes an “inward-directed focus of attention” — a mental state seen in cases of anxiety and depression.
Light Benefits
Night lights influence the body’s production of melatonin.
Benefits of Physical Contact
Sleeping with a stuffed animal can lower blood pressure, + raise oxytocin levels which induce anti-stress-like effects.
