all know that taking the stairs is better for our health when compared with riding the elevator or the escalator. But, let’s face it, when presented with the choice, wouldn’t we opt for the “automatic” option?
If the exact same stairs, however, made fun sounds when climbing them, would that make a difference?
You will find the answer to this question in the following clip which demonstrates that assigning stairs a new task of “convincing” people to climb them can result in a fun, innovative and perhaps unexpected situation.
The SIT pattern, by the way, that we see in this inventive idea is called “Task Unification”. When using this pattern, we assign a new task to an existing component – in this case, we assigned the (existing) stairs with the task of convincing people to climb them (a task they didn’t fill before).
What other task could we assign the stairs? Any ideas? Watch the video Piano Stairs here or on our homepage under our video section for the answer.
What other task could we assign the stairs? Any ideas? Watch the video Piano Stairs here or on our homepage under our video section for the answer.
I love this clip! A perfect example of task unification - I am sure if we all looked around us, we could think of something creative and more importanly - useful- that we could assign to an exisiting resource right in front of our eyes, either at work or at home or on our commute. I must admit the other one that comes to mind immediately, is the exercise bike/clothes hanger combo! What a classic.
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