What is Swervo?

Swervo is a product-service ecosystem our team of Carnegie Mellon MHCI students developed for our Capstone project client, 99P Labs, a digital proving ground that helps further develop mobility and energy concepts through customer empathy, data science, and business innovation.

Swervo reimagines the car as a game console with the goal of fostering connection for families through unique combinations of play, interaction modalities, and the affordances of the car.

To understand and validate the ideal combinations of play, interaction modalities, and affordances, we built three experiential prototypes – Moe, Simón, and Martin.

Moe

Moe combines a visual and conversational interface with the changing exterior environment to facilitate self-disclosure between parents and kids.

Simón

Simón leverages the spatial arrangement of car seats and the physically confined space of a car through a haptic interface and cooperative play.

Marty

Marty combines haptic and kinetic input, the movement of the car, and cooperative play into a maze-solving game where seats become controllers.