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feelSpace is a tactile navigation wearable device, a belt that can convey navigational information without distracting the user, especially for people with disabilities, e.g. the visually impaired.
The device was developed at the Osnabrück University, and I was brought in together with four fellow Interaction Design students from the University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück to improve the Usability of both the device and the companion app and website. We designed and built a lighter and vastly more compact and discreet prototype of the belt, working together with the research group and with early adopters to find out the real-world problems we had to tackle. In this we found out that to create an accurate feeling of direction, far less individual vibration motors were needed than the original prototype had, reducing overall cost and improving battery life.
In addition, we created a companion app prototype and a responsive website for the product.

The project made me realize the importance of designing with accessibility in mind.

my Contribution: Research, Product Design, Hardware Prototyping
In collaboration with Marleen Glasmeyer, Dominic Maßmann, Ulrike Niesse and Dennis Röttger.