This week our team focused on analyzing the feedback from Mid Semester Review in order to narrow down the scope and focus of our project while me more forward into prototyping. As we began to reevaluate the scalability of our … Continue reading Team Compass: Build
Before spring break, we had our mid-semester review. This was a chance to reflect on our progress and pull together all we had learned to create a compelling story about where we were headed. We decided to present one solution … Continue reading Mid Semester Review: Team Compass
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
Last week, we had our Mid Semester Review. Our HCW statement evolved a bit before our presentation: How can we empower mobility scooter users in Rice serveries to carry food and drinks independently and quickly? Our design goals are to … Continue reading ScootAAS: Post MSR
This week we narrowed down our solution ideas by thinking about what solutions would be feasible to implement in one semester, cost effective, and actually target our problem space. Initially, we focused on both carrying food and potentially reaching food. We decided to go forward with a tray idea that would target the first problem space. The tray would have anti-slip material on it, which would be available at every servery (~2-3 trays per servery). To go into more detail, we wanted to attach the tray to the scooter. This would make it easier to carry more food, and could … Continue reading ScootAASS: Ideate
Hi! Shane, Adam, Aitash, and I (Stephanie) are a team of four Rice students working on increasing servery accessibility on campus for mobility scooter users. Our goal is not only make the serveries accessible, but also usable. So far, we … Continue reading ScootAASS: Identify