Precedents

Describe theory, concepts, and research you have performed. Describe the prior work, ideas and projects that influenced your design. What work informed this idea.

The main ideas that influenced my work was a research paper done by the National Academy of Science: http://www.pnas.org/content/111/2/646.full . In it, the researchers explain their work with emotions and how body temperature is effected. They were able to measure these temperatures and find that an emotion would change body temperature but not evenly throughout the body. The arms, torso, head, and legs, were all defined regions that would change depending on the emotion. 

The paper created the knowledge but our Responsive Mobile Environment class sparked the idea. We did background on memory and saw videos show current research. The one that most of my interest was scientists hacking a mouse's brain by engineering his DNA and giving it implants. This allowed the mouse's emotions to be controlled electronically. With this I thought to myself, what could I do to hack the human brain.

Being a mechanical engineer that has a lot of heating and control system knowledge, I felt that I could create some sort of contraption that could emulate body temperature. Maybe controlling the body temperature can then influence or create a person's emotion like the mouse experiment. 

Locations having certain memories to a person is also an idea that could be paired with the emotion immersion system. The location is the cause and the heating/cooling system is the effect.