Industrial Design | Learning
Aero-Loop: A carousel that will lift you off your feet
The Aero-Loop is a mechanical carousel in the Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park to showcase aviation throughout the ages. The Aero-Loop is fitted with five planes from the accompanying Interpretive Center. Fixed to a tilted belt, visitors grab onto the handles of a plane, get a running start, and feel the wonder of flight. Laying across a plane, arms stretched out, the visitor embodies flight and the flier. They’re airborne for a few seconds before running and flying all over again. The more people fly, the easier it is, demonstrating that seemingly impossible feats are made possible with the help of others.
Visitors got to learn and watch others discover flight throughout their visit, what better way to end than to offer the same experience. Leave with a sense of awe, feeling flight on such a personal scale, knowing it was by your own strength that you achieved flight.
Industrial Design | Learning
Pitch N’ Yaw
Pitch N’ Yaw is a balance game based on the first flight of the Wright Brothers.
in 1903 at Kitty Hawk, NC near the Bodie Island Lighthouse. Our industry partner, Dayton Aviation heritage National Historical Park, prompted us to create an experience that excites people, and interests them in the story of the park sites.
Access was my area of interest, which led me to addressing the park’s location, operating hours, and the amount of reading necessary to learn the stories on site in Dayton. To address these concerns, I developed a set of objects that can be used anywhere, at any time, and are easy to understand, while giving people shared experiences. These objects represent Orville and Wilbur, their flier and the Bodie Island Lighthouse.
Pitch N’ Yaw aims to bring awareness to park sites, the brothers’ story, and recreate some of the emotions and excitement of their adventurous and precarious first flight.
Industrial Design | Technology
CargoLock: Streamlining the Litter Securing Process
In the realm of military medevac, where urgency is the heartbeat, Cargolock emerges as an innovative solution, streamlining stretcher-fastening procedures during critical operations. Conceived in response to the inefficiencies of traditional methods, Cargolock is a testament to the dedication of medical personnel on the battlefield, recognizing the imperative of swift and effective care delivery.
Cargolock is a purpose-built system for simplicity, speed, and a reliable fastening of litters to aircraft cargo floors, seamlessly integrating with standard military stretchers. Its design ensures a swift and secure connection to the cargo plane floor, using ladder buckles and nylon straps. The hooks are attached to the litter poles and stretched to secure the litter to the ground. From there, the backend of each strap can simultaneously be pulled to lock the litter into the ground. With the military having to act at any time each strap is ready at a moment's notice.
Industrial Design | Technology
Grocery Cover
Groceries move around in the trunk, causing damage to grocery items. Grocery Cover is a retractable cover designed to cover your grocery items in the trunk space. With the perfect amount of tension, Grocery Cover keeps your items in place.
After your groceries are loaded in the trunk, extend the cover by grabbing the handle, and sliding the hooks into the recessed areas on the trunk floor. Two landing spots accommodate different sizes of grocery loads. To unload, pull the hooks from their secure location and guide the cover back into the wall. It’s there when you need it, and tucked away when you don’t.
Grocery Cover has an insulated layer that helps keep perishable items at their ideal temperature. Grocery Cover is a component of Honda Grocery Assist, a larger system for the trunk space designed to enhance your grocery shopping experience. Streamline your routine with Grocery Cover.
Industrial Design | Social Good
Exit the Rat Race
In an attempt to break free from consumerism, Exit the Rat Race uses discursive design to question the habits of irrational spending in a modern life. By telling stories of capitalism gone wrong, can we reflect on our understanding of how design is used to make us open up our wallets, prompting a call for change in ourselves?
Exit the Rat Race comes to life as 8 projects paired with written content, each about a different topic surrounding money and spending at exit-the-race.com. Renderings and a promotional video were then disseminated through a Reddit advertisement campaign through Black Friday week of 2023. The Ohio State University's Industrial Design program was partnered with and funded by Huntington Bank for this senior capstone project. Using $120 to reach over 120,000 devices in an endeavor to use discursive design as a catalyst for educational awareness.
Industrial Design | Technology
Honda Trunk Shelf
Opening up your trunk after a grocery run to discover smashed items can be frustrating, especially when you weren't the one responsible for loading them.
While it is never intended for groceries to be crushed, curbside pickup associates tasked with the loading of groceries often grapple with many uncertainties, such as where to place items, time constraints, and preventing damage to the customer’s groceries.
Enter the Honda Trunk Shelf, a practical solution to these concerns. Integrated into the 3rd-row seats of your Honda vehicle, this pull-out shelf creates additional vertical storage space specifically designed for fragile items. Its quick and easy deployment ensures extra loading space that safely separates delicate products from larger items below. No matter who loads the groceries in the trunk, the Trunk Shelf instills confidence that the groceries remain undamaged. This, alongside the other components of Honda Grocery Assist, enhances the customer’s grocery shopping experience.
Industrial Design | Technology
Huntington Spend Sense - History, Culture and Technology History
The partnership with Huntington Bank resulted in the creation of the Spend Sense app, aimed at helping customers manage spending habits for better saving. Users can set a daily budget aligned with their savings goals. The app features a widget on phones and digital watches, displaying daily spending limits and updating with each purchase to prompt mindful spending. Unlike similar apps, Spend Sense offers real-time tracking to maintain savings goals. It empowers users to make informed spending decisions, fostering financial responsibility. In a time when savings are often neglected, Spend Sense serves as a constant reminder of the spending-saving link, encouraging users to meet their financial goals and secure their future.
Industrial Design | Technology
Honda Reusable Bag Compartment
Honda was looking for a design improvement for the vehicle cargo area to assist users with grocery shopping. This project focuses on how reusable bags can be integrated into the car. The Reusable Bag Compartment system in Honda vehicles includes a designated storage spot for reusable bags and a method of notification to the curbside associates to use reusable bags. I worked in parallel with 3 other students to integrate all our design solutions.
The reusable bag storage compartment is a glove box like storage unit built into the trunk of all Honda’s that utilizes the space between the back of the car frame and the wheel well. It includes a light for easy identification and a small door for easy access. In addition, there should be an update of the Kroger app to ask if the customer would like to use reusable bags for their purchase.
Industrial Design | Technology
MATS: Mobile Automated Tourniquet System
Introducing MATS: The Mobile Automated Tourniquet System - A vital tool for immediate response to gunshot wounds. In situations demanding swift action, MATS empowers on-site individuals to act as effective first responders. Recognizing the urgency of severe bleeding, with victims at risk of death within 3-5 minutes and an average professional aid response time of 7-10 minutes, MATS bridges this critical gap by enabling immediate and appropriate on-site assistance. This user-friendly device simplifies the process of applying emergency hemorrhage aid to three simple steps: first apply the MATS next to the wound, select the applicable limb (arm or leg), and flip the switch to pressurize the tourniquet.
An untrained applicator can often apply a tourniquet too loose, rendering the device completely useless. MATS incorporates an automated inflation process, ensuring the correct tightness every time for reliable bleed control. Tailored for accessibility in educational and civilian settings, it’s designed to be portable, and high contrast to ensure readability.
Industrial Design | Wellbeing
StairSafe Stretcher: A Public-Facing MCI Evacuation Stairwell Stretcher for Bystanders and EMS/EMT
When mass casualty incidents (MCI) occur, bystanders on scene are often the first to get involved in rescue efforts, yet lack the necessary resources to respond.
Introducing the StairSafe Stretcher: A dynamic motion stairwell stretcher.
During emergency evacuations, injured or disabled individuals may need stair chairs to facilitate stairwell evacuation. Existing devices are often reserved for first response teams due to their bulkiness and cost, leaving bystanders helpless in their response efforts. The StairSafe stretcher is designed to assist bystanders with the evacuation of movement-impaired individuals within multi-story buildings.
Unlike existing stair chairs on the market, the StairSafe auto-leveling technology allows for a dynamic transition between a flat form for use on flat areas, and a chair form for use on changing inclinations, such as stairwells. Navigating tight corners and bends is quick and easy with the compact design of the StairSafe Stretcher.
The StairSafe Stretcher can be integrated with StairSafe Wall Hooks, accommodating up to four stretchers, or within the StairSafe Rolling Cart, which allows for the transport of up to eight stretchers simultaneously. Various storage options allow businesses and organizations to strategically implement the StairSafe Stretcher system.
StairSafe Stretcher: Take the Steps for a Safer Tomorrow
Industrial Design | Technology
Honda Glide Mat: a new kind of trunk liner designed to help relief back and arm strain when unloading
This project was a project with Honda to design a new product for their vehicles with the idea of assisting users with grocery shopping, and my focus for this was health and wellness. The Honda Glide Mat is one part of the Honda Grocery Assist. This design focuses on the loading and unloading process, the product uses rollers in the body of a trunk liner to make moving items around the car easier. From my initial research and user testing participants noted that heavy items were difficult to load and unload from their vehicles, often noting back or arm strain because of pushing and pulling.
The design’s roller mechanism is activated with a switch on the left front side. Once activated it will alleviate some of the strain of pushing and pulling items by allowing one to easily move items across the trunk's floor and place them in a position close to your body in order to ground yourself for easier lifting.
Industrial Design | Learning
Thinking Cap Connective Adventure System
The Wright Dunbar visitor center is one location for the Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park. The Wright Dunbar Museum is challenging to understand, the flow of information is disconnected. Thinking Cap is a whimsical guidance system that makes it easier to see a connected story in your experience.
To use Thinking Cap, visitors choose from four types of hats presented in the lobby. Each of the hats is a distinct experience, focusing on one topic. Each hat is visually customized to the topic. Visitors can place hats on hat stands throughout the museum, where displays will light up, guiding them to their interests. Thinking Cap is a tool to give people ways to dictate their own museum experience. Of course, Thinking Cap is made to help get learners invested in the information, but most of all it’s made to be fun. A museum you’ll remember is one you enjoyed.
Industrial Design | Learning
Pinewood Flyer Derby
The Dayton Aviation Heritage National Park has been around for over 35 years and is dedicated to telling the story of the Wright Brothers and their foundational contributions to aviation. Stationed in the hometown of the Wright Brothers of Dayton, OH this national park is a combination of multiple sites inside and outside of the city. This is all in an effort to preserve the legacy of imagination and innovation that the Wright Brothers left behind.
The Pinewood Flyer Derby looks to extend the reach of the museum beyond these locations and into the hearts and minds of the people. It serves as an event that is a source of learning, inspiration, and a little friendly competition. Derby Day provides an opportunity to bring the community together at the National Park to experience the spirit of innovation that the Wright Brothers first had.
Industrial Design | Social Good
The Huntington Bank Pop-Up Truck
Many older adults rely on digital banking due to their physical limitations and decreasing access to traditional banks. However, they prefer human interaction and have concerns about their technological ability and security. Troubleshooting online banking poses challenges to older adults, hindering their ability to manage finances independently, which is a desire they strongly hold.
The Huntington Bank Pop-Up Truck aims to offer a more personalized banking experience by bringing in-person services and employees directly to older adults. Starting in Columbus, the truck will visit 23 independent living facilities monthly, welcoming all residents regardless of their bank affiliation. For those unable to sign up online, each facility will provide a sign-up sheet for private 30-minute truck sessions addressing their banking needs. The truck ensures accessibility with features like a low chassis and ramp for mobility aids. Inside, it’s welcoming and equipped with storage, comfortable seating, a large screen, and a setup for face-to-face interaction and collaboration. The onboard employee uses the truck’s interaction guide to assist with typical bank services (except those involving cash). Whether assisting with transactions, providing answers, or sharing Huntington services, the employee caters to customers’ preferences.
The Huntington Bank Pop-Up Truck initiative empowers older adults to bank independently while fostering customer loyalty and forging new relationships for Huntington Bank.
Industrial Design | Learning
Huntington TravelReady™ Currency Package
Studying abroad is a formative university experience. Students embrace new perspectives and see the world. But, traveling has its stresses, especially with currency exchange. The current process to obtain and return currency is cumbersome and costly. Ohio State’s Office of International Affairs’ (OIA) Global Education program does not provide any direct way to navigate these obstacles. Students face high fees and confusing logistics, leading to unnecessary overspending and an added layer of stress.
Enter the Huntington TravelReady™ Currency Package, available through a partnership between OIA and Huntington Bank. Students receive all their necessary spending gear well before they depart and have a convenient avenue to re-exchange upon return. Students order their TravelReady™ package online, where they’ll receive currency recommendations based on their Global Education trip. Also included is a prepaid currency card, reducing the need for physical cash, a coin purse filled with starter coins, and an RFID blocking sleeve for an added layer of safety. Pick up on campus at OIA, and conveniently re-exchange at the same location.
With TravelReady™, Ohio State students are better prepared to study abroad, without any of the stresses that come with coordinating a currency exchange. This streamlined process allows students to focus solely on their upcoming adventures, learning as much as possible and having a fulfilling experience while abroad.
Industrial Design | Wellbeing
PullTag
Developed in collaboration with Battelle and members of the Columbus Fire Department, the PullTag is an innovative triage tag that quickly captures crucial patient information without hindering EMS personnel from treating patients during a mass casualty incident (MCI) response.
During an MCI, first responders have a window of 30-60 seconds to triage patients, any more time spent and another patient could die. Implementing the PullTag ensures that vital patient data is captured without losing precious seconds.
Designed using a pull tab mechanism, first responders rip off sections of the tag that correspond to injury location, patient treatment, and patient tracking. Additional patient details such as name and date of birth are located on the back.
The PullTag will help EMS personnel to quickly identify injury severity and treatment applied. By eliminating the need to write down vital information, first responders can spend more time triaging and treating patients. Using the PullTag can lead to a more successful mass casualty incident response.