Problem

When researching how we can reach the ultimate goal of happiness, I noticed all advice was guiding towards “Aristotles Sublime Beautitudo” which takes a lifetime to achieve. With individuals undergoing unique life experiences and born with unique genes affecting their mental health, I found it inaccessible and unfair to expect this to be achievable for everyone. An study suggested that “happy people do not need to be Pollyanna’s or deny the upsetting parts of life. But these people have the ability to put greater stock in small, happy moments.” (LATimes, 2009). I wanted to consider ways people can cherish the everyday without chasing short term happiness.

Process

This is where I gathered research surrounding cherishing happiness. My key insights were that 29.9% of people often forget happy moment and 80% cherish happy moments by taking photos on their phone. However, most people I spoke to had thousands of photos on their phone and never look at them again.

Solution

Google Cherish is a hand-held immersive scrapbook that allows you to cherish moments of joy and relive them through a 360 camera and a 360 projection, 360 microphones and 360 speakers. Google Cherish records a micro-moment of joy for you to re-watch, and relive when you are in your own home, with full 360 visuals and sound. The portability promotes cherishing happy places, which is facilitated through the Google Maps extension. With built in GPS, when you cherish a moment, it will be automatically logged on your Google Maps app so you can revisit the location whenever. It has limited stored moments so each one is truly special.

Google Cherish aims to improve wellbeing by allowing the user to fully immerse themselves in their micro-moments of joy ︎

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