The idea of the interactive garden is wanting to connect people to nature in a technological way. Nowadays, the use of technology has become a huge part of human’s daily life, the benefit of it had improved the communication between people, and improve our lives become more convenient. However, the advantage of technology also causes people to become more addictive into in, such as overuse of the internet, smartphone, tablets, social media networks, etc. Those are the elements can create a connection between people but affecting their health negatively in the meantime. Although technology has improved our lives, it also causes people less likely to connect with nature.

 

It is hard to pull out people completely from technology and connect to nature, the idea of the interactive garden is not aiming to remove the connection of human with technology and connect to nature, but to improve the idea of the garden to makes it suitable for the modern life. An interactive garden is combining nature with technology, and to create a balance between the two significant connection with people and allows the user can experience the natural environment with technology. There are four features for the interaction which contains, movement, vision, touch, and hearing. Those are the important sense to be featured because it is relating how the user can remember through the experience. Such as music are one of the most important parts in the garden, music is a positive element to put in the interactive garden, because it is playing a huge part of the neutral environment, and it can relate to many things in the world. Music can simulate the hearing senses, it is another method to create a memorialize moment when the user interacts with touching, therefore, adding music will create diversity for the garden. Instead of putting music in the background, adding music to the plant is a new perspective approach, it created an interaction between the plants and human and let the audience to get to know about nature in a way that they can play around with the music at the same time. it created an interaction between the plants and human and let the audience It allows the audiences to have a new experience of walking into a garden. There will also be a video for showcasing the garden, video is an effective way to present the message directly, it is also easier for the user to have a faster way and clear way to receive the message. The benefit of the interactive garden is that plants are part of the natural environment, it is allowing all age and type of person to interact with. There are potential for this idea to expand in the future, this garden allows the user to know about the plants immediately, and if expanding this function into them. In conclusion, the idea of the interactive garden is to expand the creativity of the garden by combing with the technology and create an interactive method for people to be interesting to nature with a different experience.