{"id":134,"date":"2014-09-15T18:05:11","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T18:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.just4letters.com\/pi\/?p=134"},"modified":"2014-09-15T18:06:50","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T18:06:50","slug":"the-subway-as-a-platform-for-public-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.just4letters.com\/pi\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"The subway as a platform for public health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For physical computing last year, I worked on a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.melodyquintana.com\/#\/lightbox\/\">project<\/a> that aimed to make light therapy easier and more accessible for people with Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD).<\/p>\n<p>When I first thought about how to bring this concept to the public transportation space, I wondered if lighting design could\u00a0help\u00a0the community-at-large\u00a0get better sleep.\u00a0Inspired by the simplicity of the <a href=\"https:\/\/justgetflux.com\/\">flux desktop app<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0transforms\u00a0your screen lighting into orange hues at night, I thought this model\u00a0could apply to subway lighting as well.<\/p>\n<p>Curious about how an environmental change like this might\u00a0impact the well-being of a lot of people at once, I went a step further and asked what other ways the design of public transit could help shape public health. I used\u00a0stress as a lens for 3 design intervention concepts.<\/p>\n<p>[ \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/QwnJll\">Project Website<\/a>\u00a0 ]<\/p>\n<p>I experimented with presenting my ideas in a very quick and simple narrative website.\u00a0To see the website, first\u00a0download the folder, then double-click on the &#8220;stress-and-the-subway.html&#8221; file to open it in your browser.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Melody<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For physical computing last year, I worked on a\u00a0project that aimed to make light therapy easier and more accessible for people with Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). When I first thought about how to bring this concept to the public transportation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.just4letters.com\/pi\/?p=134\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.just4letters.com\/pi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.just4letters.com\/pi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.just4letters.com\/pi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.just4letters.com\/pi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.just4letters.com\/pi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.just4letters.com\/pi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"https:\/\/www.just4letters.com\/pi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.just4letters.com\/pi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.just4letters.com\/pi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.just4letters.com\/pi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}