Lecture by Hazel White

Today’s lecture was taken by Hazel White, she talked about design but when she was talking about different types of jewellery and how technology has been applied to it. She then discussed about how a help button was put onto a necklace type object, which I have seen before and thought it was very interested and a good way to help elderly people. Hazel was talking about how people won’t wear this item due to how large an obvious it was, its as though those people wearing them are being labelled that they are incapable of looking after themselves. Which I feel is understandable, if it was me I would not want to wear it as it really states something about them.

I feel that with the amount of money and time being spent on making technology in jewellery as much as people may feel it’s a good thing, they could be using there time to design this much better. If the necklace or even a bracelet had a smaller button which they could press for help that was not as noticeable amongst the rest of design of the piece of jewellery, people may be more willing to wear it. If the item was an accessory rather and an object needed just to get help, it would become more of a success and would help more people if they did have an accident as I feel people would not have a problem wearing a piece of jewellery that has this technology incorporated in it.