eOz

the environment hunter

No longer home is a fixed shelter to where we always return to; instead is an environment, an atmosphere that we cross. Foreign countries, unknown environments and airports become common places; the user’s luggage becomes his/her four walls and a roof. What to carry in my luggage of my last environment/home?
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eOz can be described as a representation of an environmental behaviour. It collects subconscious aspects of the recognition of the environment where we place ourselves, creates a memory of it, recreating it and reinforcing its own existence.
Through environmental sound that characterizes a certain kind of localization and a visual representation of it, eOz is an environmental memory that the user can keep track, share, change and relive.
eOz, the environment hunter!

The only real thing is Memory. The camera may set a time, a moment, but that moment has already passed. At the end, what it shows it’s a ghost of the moment.
Manoel de Oliveira, in Lisbon Story, Win Wenders, 1994

| eOz ecosystem |
Portable environment
Sound, light, geographical position
Record and Recognition
Environmental Memory
Communication between past places and present and future ones

| target |
Professional Nomad
Spends half of the year travelling (or more)
Always with her/his luggage
Spends a lot of time in airports
Enjoys different types of environments, need of his/her own environment
Smart phone, Laptop, Digital Camera always present during her/his trips

| eOz device |

Recording, Capturing, Playing, Bookmarking

Plcd material, bluetooth connection, pressing buttons (rubber), camera shell (capture system, fisheye lens, colour sensors), sound shell (stereo/recording and playing system, headphone jack, built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery), joystick button (lcd screen)

| eOz experience |

When a place contains components that satisfy a person biologically, socially, psychologically and/or culturally, it creates the environmental past of a person. Through ‘good’ or ‘bad’ experiences with a place, a person is then able to reflect and define their personal values, attitudes, feelings and beliefs about the physical world.
As an alternative to the definition of “home” as a physical locale, home may be perceived to have no physical definition–instead, home may relate instead to a mental or emotional state of refuge or comfort.(by Wikipedia)