On a hot summers day, no-one wants to be stuck inside in front of a screen whilst it seems the world is outside enjoying the weather.
This feeling is something that is particularly frustrating to control, especially when you work for yourself.
After sitting for a few hours in a cool room starring at the sunny scenes on the other side of your window, you might decide to have a break and take yourself outside.
But the moment you do that, you begin to feel an ever increasing weight of guilt that you are not working hard enough, that you are slacking off. So any enjoyment that you may have had is replaced by a pressure to get back inside and carry on working.
This internal battle just adds to the stresses of an everyday working environment.
The Summer Guilt project would alleviate any of these decisions for you, leaving you to continue with your day.
After sitting for a few hours in a cool room starring at the sunny scenes on the other side of your window, you might decide to have a break and take yourself outside.
But the moment you do that, you begin to feel an ever increasing weight of guilt that you are not working hard enough, that you are slacking off. So any enjoyment that you may have had is replaced by a pressure to get back inside and carry on working.
This internal battle just adds to the stresses of an everyday working environment.
The Summer Guilt project would alleviate any of these decisions for you, leaving you to continue with your day.
The device will collect and process local weather conditions, in particular, UV strength levels and alert you as to when you should take a break outside.
Then, depending on how much time you have spent in the sun, it will prompt you to return to your desk, either because you are at risk of skin damage without protection or because you have 'taken enough time' away from work.
Because the device negates any responsibility on the users part, each person can relax in the knowledge that they are neither not doing enough work or not taking advantage of the weather; it experiences the guilt for you and acts as your conscience.
Research to come.
Research to come.
