[TÖDO — AR EXPERIENCE, HOME ASSISTANT]
Cohabitants Prioritizing Wellness Over Pressure
Tödo are task reminders that seamlessly integrate into your living environment. With AI and AR technology, Tödo understand your space—recognizing daily tasks and provide timely, contextual nudges to help you stay on top of daily life.
TEAM
Alicia Beatty
Chloe Chen
Stephanie Chou
David Robles
Cindy Te
Gerri Zhou
SCOPE
AR/VR Product
3D Motion
INDIVIDUAL ROLE
I was responsible for the ideation and execution of Tödo as a spatial product-character, using 3D modeling and motion to visualize the product.
[PROBLEM SPACE]
Traditional home assistants are stuck in the old paradigm.
Most home assistants today follow a familiar pattern—they respond to transactional commands and provide generic information. We saw an opportunity to make this experience more personal and collaborative.
Transactional
They feel transactional instead of intuitive.
Environmental Integration
They don’t integrate with your physical environment in meaningful ways.
Conventional
Many home assistants today follow a similar pattern—they respond to commands, provide information, and control smart devices.
[FINAL DESIGN]
Meet Tödo
Tödo moves beyond isolated tools to create deeply connected, intuitive systems that enhance everyday life. Tödo understand your space—recognizing tasks like washing dishes or watering plants—and provide timely, contextual nudges to help you stay on top of daily life.
The Tödo task force is custom to you.
Tödo is plural, there's not just one Tödo, but a team to help you with specific tasks based on what you need to work on the most, examples include daily meditation or doing dishes.
But how does Tödo know?
When you first meet Tödo, they’ll explore your space and observe your routines for one week. Using your AR headset, they scan key areas, recognizing furniture with AI and storing a 3D model of your home. You’re always in control—customize what Tödo can access, and edit or delete memories anytime to protect your privacy.
A presence that evolves with you.
As the tödo learn your habits, they adapt their presence based on urgency—showing up more frequently for pressing tasks, each in a unique costume for easy recognition. Completing tasks not only improves your routine but also helps tödo flourish, evolving the tödo home as you stay on track.
The Tödo Hub: A home that grows with habit!
As you complete your tasks, you are not only helping yourself, but you're also helping Tödo better their lives! Their house upgrades with your commitments to your tasks! The Tödo hub also serves as a hub for customized settings including privacy and personalize interactions.
[REFLECTION + NEXT STEPS]
Interacting with Tödo
With Tödo being my first project I've worked on involving both AI and AR/VR, there are definitely some things I learned and would consider in the future.
Dynamic Tödo
Personalization plays a central role in Tödo, allowing it to learn from our routines and environment to deliver personal reminders. A next step would be testing Tödo in varied living situations—especially shared households—to understand how it responds to different routines, dynamics, and levels of interaction.
Can Tödo gesture?
Tödo appears every now and then, using gestures to gently remind us of our tasks—but what other gestures could it make? What gestures could we make to nudge Tödo in return?
Working in 3D!
Before Tödo, I've never worked in a 3D software before, let alone 3D animation. While learning how to 3D model and animate in the span of 10 weeks was challenging, it taught me that if I truly enjoy something
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