treadmill

Repurpose the addictive video game leveling-up “skill tree” system for educational purposes.

Mar 1, 2021

Education, Games, UI / UX

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Background: In many video games, the process of doling out upgrades to the player is represented in the form of a “skill tree,” where different branches indicate different fields of expertise (e.g. a branch for sword-fighting and a separate one for horseshoe-making). Proposal: Maybe this same idea can be applied to education! See Figure 1…
Feel the illusion of progress while accomplishing nothing! A “panorama treadmill” trick with metaphorical applications to other aspects of life too!

Sep 12, 2016

Fitness, Health

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The issue: Running on a treadmill can be quite unrewarding due to the repetitiveness and relatively long duration of most treadmill-based exercises. Fig 1: This treadmill needs to be jazzed up somehow. There are certain “gimmick”-based treadmills that connect to a monitor to give you the illusion of actually making progress toward a destination as…