Travis Choi

Embodying nature through multisensory experience

Being in nature can encourage a variety of positive emotions, including peace,  joy, and creativity, as well as facilitating focus. The connection to nature has also been linked to improved mental health, including lower levels of despair and anxiety. In modern society, people lead busy and stressful lives with little time to go from place to place and be connected to nature.

The primary objective of Serenity is to help people experience nature at any time, by integrating a multi-sensory experience into the essential oil diffuser to embody particular nature sceneries people desire to be in tune with.

By featuring a smart display, audio speaker, ultrasonic diffuser, and a functional pebble, Serenity encourages users’ visual, auditory, olfactory, and tactile stimuli to all work together to achieve calmness whenever they feel the need.

With the functional pebble sitting on top of the display, users can achieve peace of mind through different breathing exercises with subtle vibration waves as intuitive guidance as well as a hand-warming feature, to help users reach calmness through tactile interaction.