This week, team Compass met to talk about how our insights from Immerse would change the focus of our project going forward. We went back and asked ourselves what food insecurity really is, given the new information we got from … Continue reading Reframe: Team Compass
This week team KTRU immersed ourselves into our problem space and the user’s experience. As a team, we visited the KTRU station to tour the DJ … Continue reading IMMERSE: Team KTRU
We began this week by brainstorming potential assumptions about our problem, and identified potential key aspects of our problem space that would be worth investigating. Firstly, we believe that many DJs may feel intimidated to play vinyl mainly because of … Continue reading IDENTIFY: Team KTRU
Hello! We are Team KTRU, and we’re really excited to be working on a project tasked with improving vinyl play at Rice’s student radio station: KTRU 96.1. On the team is Taylan Tuncata (junior studying Cognitive Science and Film), Toprak … Continue reading INTRODUCE: Team KTRU
This past week our team, Mi Familia Vota, got started on our project. How Can We (HCW) create a Mi Familia Vota contact information form that engages students’ interests in civic engagement and incentivizes them to fill it out? … Continue reading Mi Familia Vota – Identify
Hello! We are team Rice Bikes (alternative name: Switching Gears). We are a DFA team working closely with Rice Bikes, a student run business at Rice University, to encourage students to more consistently perform maintenance on their bikes. Our team has … Continue reading INTRODUCTION: Team Rice Bikes
Tell us about your project. Mi Familia Vota is a national civic engagement organization that unites Latino, immigrant, and allied communities to promote social and economic justice through citizenship workshops, voter registration, and voter participation. We want to help Mi … Continue reading Mi Familia Vota: Introduction
This week, our team met to identify what our challenge was, our assumptions, and break down each component of food insecurity. We realized that the food pantry itself had many different sub problems, and that food insecurity itself had many different components. In order to tackle the challenge in a meaningful way, we need to identify all the problem spaces. Our subproblems spaces were: Awareness: Most people do not know about the food pantry. Resources/Contents: Did the food pantry have food the users wanted? Hours: The hours are odd Perception/Level of comfort: There is stigma around food insecurity Access: Transportation … Continue reading Identify: Team Compass