Pressure Project 1

For my pressure project 1, I chose to do the automatic door system at Kroger because it’s a familiar and accessible technology that me and many other people interact with daily. I have been working at the Deli for around 3 years and that gives me a unique perspective on how people use the doors. The view from where I work allows me to see people walking in and out of the automatic doors.

The ideas that I had for a heroic intervention was to have a button that someone could hold that would keep the door open for longer periods of time and allow disabled people to enter and exit more easily. You could also have a motion sensor with a camera that can detect whether or not a person is disabled. Another idea could be that there is a remote operator where the person with a remote can keep the doors open longer from a further distance, similar to the button method.

If I were to choose the villainous route, it would basically be all of the heroic ideas but the opposite. For instance, the button in this case would instead keep the doors closed and not let people in or even make the doors close on people. The motion sensor in this scenario would not let disabled people in and the remote operator would close the doors from a further distance.