AusaHub kiosk · Blood pressure, SpO₂, blood glucose

Five backdrops for the measuring screen

Today the reading floats over the AI blob, which wanders at random behind a grid of glass tiles. The blob has nothing to do with the test, so the backdrop and the reading look like two separate screens.

Each option comes in two versions. A is plain. B keeps the blob and the glass but gives the blob a job in that option: the dial's pointer, the heart the rings leave from, the pen, the breath, or a float on the tide. In B the panes light up only where the blob and the option's own shapes shine, the reading sits on a pane of the same glass, and the dock is glass too.

All ten frames play the same test in sync. Switch the test, cut the signal, or drag the timeline to any moment.

Frames are the hub's 1920 × 1200 panel, scaled to fit. Type, colours and the dock are the kiosk's own tokens. The blob in B is a 2D stand-in for the 3D blob, in its colours.

Cuff releasing · 0:12 / 0:28

Option 1

Dial

The ring is the cuff's pressure gauge. It fills as the cuff squeezes, leaves a mark at the peak and drains as the cuff lets go. The result lands on the same dial as a band from 82 to 124.

APlain.The dial alone carries the test on the kiosk's ground.
BThe blob is the pointer.It rides the tip of the arc under the glass, and the panes along the swept arc light up behind it. On the result it settles on the band.
Tells the patient
How hard the cuff is squeezing and that it has passed its peak. For SpO₂ the dial reads 70 to 100 %. For glucose it counts down the meter's five seconds.
Signal lost
The arc turns grey and stays where it was. In B the blob greys and the panes dim.
On the hub
A: one Shape with arc sweeps and a Repeater of ticks, redrawn only when a reading arrives. B: adds today's blob and GlassTiles, the blob placed at the arc's tip.
Watch
A dial reads as a verdict. It stays blue until the result is in, so a high cuff pressure never looks like a high reading.

Option 2

Pulse

A ring leaves the reading on every heartbeat. Before the pulse is found, one slow ring every couple of seconds shows the hub is listening.

APlain.Thin rings spread over the kiosk's ground.
BThe blob is the heart.It sits behind the reading's pane and swells on each beat, and each beat sends a ring of light out through the panes.
Tells the patient
That the device has found their pulse. As the BP cuff lets go the rings swell and fade with the cuff's own oscillations, strongest near 96 mmHg, the mean pressure.
Signal lost
No new rings, and the ones already moving fade out. In B the blob greys.
On the hub
A: six pooled Rectangles, scaled and faded per beat. B: today's blob, centred and scaled on each beat, with the rings drawn under GlassTiles.
Watch
The cuff and oximeter send a pulse rate, not single beats, so the rings are timed from the rate. They keep the right tempo but aren't a beat-by-beat record.

Option 3

Trace

A monitor strip under the reading: the pulse in the cuff for BP, the fingertip pulse wave for SpO₂, and one tick a second while the glucose meter counts down.

APlain.The strip on monitor paper.
BThe blob is the pen.It rides the write head, and the row of panes under the strip glows with each pulse. The panes take the place of the monitor paper.
Tells the patient
It looks and moves like a clinical monitor, which reads as serious and precise.
Signal lost
The line goes flat and dashed while the write head keeps moving, so the gap stays visible afterwards.
On the hub
A: a 270-point polyline redrawn every frame. B: the same line drawn a second time under GlassTiles, with the blob as the pen.
Watch
The hub doesn't receive a waveform today, only the SpO₂ %, the pulse rate and the cuff pressure. A wave drawn from the rate looks like measured data, which a medical device must not fake.

Option 4

Calm

The backdrop breathes at a resting rate of 12 breaths a minute, under a quiet "Breathe normally". It shows no progress, only a pace to settle into.

APlain.A soft disc breathes behind the reading.
BThe blob is the breath.It swells and settles behind the reading's pane, and the panes around it light up and dim with it. The closest to today's screen.
Tells the patient
Nothing about the test, on purpose. Sitting calm and still is what a good BP reading needs from them.
Signal lost
It keeps breathing and turns grey, so the patient stays settled while the hub reconnects.
On the hub
A: one disc with a radial gradient on a scale animation. B: today's blob on the same breathing scale, centred instead of wandering.
Watch
Keep the pace at a normal resting rate. Slow guided breathing lowers blood pressure and would bias the reading, so check the rate with the clinical team.

Option 5

Tide

Colour rises from the bottom as the cuff inflates and drains as it lets go, so the screen matches what the patient feels on their arm. Each beat ripples the surface.

APlain.Pale colour rising from the bottom.
BThe blob floats on the tide.It waits behind the glass dock and rises with the water, and every pane under the surface lights up in the blob's blues.
Tells the patient
The cuff's squeeze and release, and for SpO₂ and glucose how far along the test is.
Signal lost
The surface goes still and grey.
On the hub
A: a pre-drawn wave slid sideways and a height that eases. B: the wave under GlassTiles, with the blob placed on its surface.
Watch
The number sits over the colour. In A the tide stays within blue 100 to 200; in B the reading's pane keeps the contrast.