Mounted Token System for Grieving Process Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing memorial tokens do not facilitate growth or change through the grieving process and lack a sense of community support for griever.
Innovation Solution
A mounted token system that allows wearers to add or remove tokens, featuring a tracking indicator for token passage between users, forming a 'token tree' to encourage community support and shared experiences.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a fixed memorial token is provided, then the token serves as a permanent memorial, but it does not allow for growth or change through the grieving process
Solution Approach 1:
The token system transitions from a static, fixed design to a dynamic system where tokens can be added, removed, and replaced over time. The mount allows the token to change state and composition as the wearer progresses through the grieving process, enabling adaptation while maintaining the core memorial structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The memorial token is divided into separable components: a permanent mount and replaceable token elements. This segmentation allows the token portion to change while the mount remains stable, enabling growth and change through the grieving process while maintaining structural integrity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a solitary memorial token is provided, then the token serves individual remembrance, but it does not add a sense of community to support the griever
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements tracking indicators and a tree structure that provide feedback about previous owners and their journeys. This feedback mechanism connects current wearers to the community of previous grievors, creating support networks and shared experiences while maintaining relatively simple implementation through digital tracking.
Solution Approach 2:
The token system embeds multiple layers of information and connection: the physical token contains tracking indicators, which link to digital records, which connect to the broader community tree structure. This nested approach builds community connection through multiple levels without requiring complex direct interactions.
3Loss of information
If a token is made changeable between wearers, then the grieving process can be tracked, but the token loses its permanence as a memorial
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates copies of the token's identity through tracking indicators and digital records. When a token is transferred, its information is copied and stored, allowing the physical token to change hands while its memorial identity and journey history are preserved in the digital system, maintaining permanence through replication rather than physical constancy.
Data Source
AI summary
A mounted token system is configured to be worn by a wearer as a part of the grieving process. The mounted token system may include a token with an tracking indicator, a token mount, and a server. The token mount includes an anterior segment which includes an anterior opening, and a posterior segment moveable relative to the anterior segment. The token mount is configured to secure the token therein. At least a portion of the token is visible from an anterior side through the anterior opening. The server performs the following steps: present, to a first user via a graphical user interface, an invitation to provide information indicative of the tracking indicator of the token; receive, from the first user, information indicative of the tracking indicator; and store information indicative of the tracking indicator. The token may then be passed to a subsequent wearer, utilizing a new token mount.