Savior: An Interactive Game Device for Environmental Protection

Abstract

This paper presents Savior, an interactive device based on the thinking on the environmental problems, which people can interact with through their behavior. Pictures of the world map are displayed on the electronic screen, this screen is supposed to show both terrible scenes and beautiful scenes of the earth. 3D printed models are embedded with different Arduino sensors. This interactive installation is also an interesting game installation which is attractive to people and it can involve people in the interactive game. A preliminary evaluation is conducted and indicates that Savior raised people's awareness of environmental protection. Meanwhile, it has the potential of guiding people to protect the environment in the real life and change nowadays’ negative living condition on earth. In this process, users are like the savior of the earth, they changed our earth from a terrible condition to a beautiful and prosperous world. Our contribution in this project is that we raised people's awareness of environmental protection by visualizing data of environmental problems and combine games with art installations.