'My Flower' response
Hey Yu,
I really liked the idea of your plant producing scents when people have certain problems. And I also liked the fact that the plant would produce the scent even in situations when we are not doing anything in particular with the plant itself.
It would be nice the plant would work without to much workload of it's owner. Because if your are stressed or ill or tired, I don't think you will have the nerves to programming your plant. It takes time!!!
The problem to let anybody know how you feel today, is not that big thing. There are so many meaning to essentials oils that it's hard to guess whats wrong with the plants owner.
For example lavender is used for aromatic therapie when:
- you are stressed and sleepless - you are sick and injured, because its antiseptic - you are depressed
But without any problem it can also be:
- good for your heart and skin - relaxing, refreshing and stimulating
So I wouldn't care to much about that. Because there are a lot of people working with essential oil in their living area today *my mom for example* and I never heard 'ah Mrs. Walk thats lemongrass...are you feeling sick?'. Most people would think, 'ah that smells nice really refreshing'.
But Sebastian is right it should be possible to tell the plant to stop or to do the opposite of what it is doing already.
I Thought may *yeah may be* pheromons would be a good solution to it. Wikipedia: pheromones
As you might know they are hormones normally found in body fluids like sweat or saliva to give others information about our body or attendance for sexual reproduction. Also plants use them to deliver special messenges from one to another. May be you can give your plant when you don't like it to produce any scent or to produce the opposite scent a special mix of pheromones to let them know what you want.
I hope that I was able to be of assistance to you.
(ahhh and please ignore the misspelling ^^)
--Vanessa 14:06, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
Further idea
I thought about all the comments everybody made that day. And I come up with some new ideas.
Firstly, I try to discard the mechanical part of the project,try to combine the analyze function to the plant.
But, unfortunately, I didn't find any thing can prove that plants can detecting data of human.
And to tell one's emotion by analyzing is quite demanding and complex.
I think plants can only collect some external data such as temperature and breath, which is not sufficient.
So, I think it may still need some technical support out side form the plant.
Then, given the suggestion form Sebastian,This process should not be automatically. The owner should decide when to take the test.
Based on this, What come up into my mind is that I can use a water pot instead.
Every time people feel like to have a aromatherapy, they just water the plant.
And I think it can use the technology from the yogurt pot.
Every time you grab the handle it will take sample and start to analyze.
Other than that, I read the article about artificial life on wiki.
I don't know if we can make a super smart plant which knows the owner's mood and do some thing for him.
--Yu Xiaorui 11:56, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
Review for 20-05-2010
My introduction today
1. My Flower sets up a system between people and flower(or plants) at in-door-area.
2. Explain 3 questions:
a. Why flowers smell good?
--Because some cells produce Chemicals.
b. How can we tell somebody's mood?
--By analyze body data.
c. What's the connection between Fragrance and mood?
--Aromatherapy.
3. Explain how My Flower works.
a. It make up with two part -- the sensor and the plant.
b. The sensor will be installed into human body. It will analyze host's data
form time to time to tell their mood.
c. Then the data will send to a receiver bond to the plant.
d. The plant composed with various genes from different flowers.So it can
give off different smells as need.And these cells can be controlled by
computer with electricity.
e. According to the host's mood, certain cells will act to make fragrance.
Then the host get feed back through the air.
f. It can be controlled manually as well.
Comments from others:
1. Sebastian suggests me to change the mechanical sensor part to a more Biological way to get the host's data.
2. Pro. Damm said besides the decoration usage, flower also play a gift role in peoples' social life. Maybe I can pay some attention combining the aroma function with this aspect of it.
3. Dominik: I completely agree with Sebastian concerning the sensor part. As a rough suggestion, again from the scientific side: What about genetically modified neurons? They would recognize temperature changes, hormone concentration and other thinks in the human blood. As neurons are able to actively change their cell membrane potential, they could be used to transfer information to a computer via electric pulses.
Please give me you opinions and suggestion!
Thanks a lot!
--Yu Xiaorui 17:32, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
Hallo
Hello everyone.
This is the page for my project -- MY FLOWER
You are welcome to visit and leave any comment here!
Here is the link of this page:
[[GMU:Synthetic_Biology/My Flower| My Flower]]
you can paste it to other place if needed.
Looking forward to get your opinions!
--Yu Xiaorui 17:32, 20 May 2010 (UTC)