Designing a New Interactive Outdoor Light Installation for a Recreational Urban Trail

Interactive outdoor light installations change how we experience places and invite people passing by to engage with them. In this project, we investigate how we can design such an interactive light prototype to enhance a recreational urban trail. We applied a user-centered design process to develop a solution that fits our users’ needs and demonstrate how the concept of northern lights can be used to create a more secure and inviting urban trail. Here, we present our design process and prototype to inspire future work in the field.