Our frame has narrowed to the improving the social experience of students with physical disabilities at Rice University. Our interviews with both physically disabled students as well as event planners have revealed some important insights: Students with physical disabilities feel as … Continue reading Access Rice: REFRAME
Ease of Use: How many clarifying questions will the students ask? (5 second intuition test) Engaging: On a scale of 1 to 10, how engaging is it? Interactive: How likely are you to reach out to a mentor? Scalable: Create a guide for how … Continue reading CPR: BUILD
Top 4 Ideas Surveys for Creating Mentorship Pairs Successful mentorships lead to successful futures for the current students and a sense of meaning for the alumni Newsletter Keeps the alumni connected to Breakthrough Will drive engagement and motivate the alumni … Continue reading CPR: IDEATE
Through all our research and interviews, we managed to narrow down our problem space to three primary areas, expressed as How-Can-We statements. HCW enable and support Rice students that want to consistently volunteer? HCW train and keep track of Rice … Continue reading Team Harvey Relief: REFRAME
Pedagogical Insights: Rice DSS appears to be reactive as opposed to proactive in accommodating the needs of students at Rice There are too few existing resources for individuals at Rice with disabilities Sometimes there is a lack of understanding between faculty/staff … Continue reading Access Rice: IMMERSE
4-5 Possible HCW’s: How can we engage and retain the Breakthrough alumni to stay in the network? How can we maintain long-term mentorship relationships between Alumni and current students of Breakthrough? How can we make a system that is easy … Continue reading CPR: REFRAME
We met today to discuss potential interviewees, our research, and important insights. Here are a few: Sixteen percent of students with disabilities earned a bachelor’s degree, compared to 27% of students without disabilities… (Horn & Berktold, 1999) Quality of disability … Continue reading Access Rice: IDENTIFY pt. 2
This past week, our team jumped off the diving board and into the water. Our scope has narrowed to “The effects of low socioeconomic status/background that yield disadvantages in college preparedness and resilience”. We began identifying organizations that might have … Continue reading CPR: IMMERSE
In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, Rice organized an impromptu volunteer response, allowing students to go out into the Houston community and give back while school was cancelled. The volunteer response, termed R-HAT (Rice Harvey Action Team), was formed from … Continue reading Team Harvey Relief: IDENTIFY
So far, we’ve created interview questions and templates to ask our users and experts, so that we can continue to gather insights and develop a better understanding of our problem space. We have also sent out emails to experts either … Continue reading Team Harvey Relief: IMMERSE
Our project has officially begun! This week, we have started broad research regarding problem spaces around disability and accessibility on college campuses. We have asked questions such as, “what is disability? What is accessibility? What does living with a disability … Continue reading Access Rice: IDENTIFY
To experience the challenges with cars at intersections first hand, our team has walked around campus and surrounding areas to access the challenges present. Some issues we noticed are drivers trying to speed up and make yellow lights, the dangers of right turning of red, the trouble with crossing a busy road as a pedestrian, and sharing the road with cars while on a bike. Other key factors we noticed at intersections are the importance of eye contact between other drivers and pedestrians when crossing streets in order to determine who has the right of way. From our walk around … Continue reading FCA: IMMERSE
Pink, purple, green, yellow – a mosaic of sticky squares fills our table. Each square representative of an invisible thought once isolated in a mind, now interacting with other squares to create visible patterns and clusters. This is the beginning … Continue reading CPR: IDENTIFY
Lead – Jeffrey Xiong, McM ’18, Computer Science likes taking pictures of squirrels, sketching strangers on subways, and reading sci-fi Cesar Soto, Lovett ’18, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering likes playing soccer, watching sports, fishing, and food Eri Zhong, Lovett ’18, … Continue reading Meet Team Harvey Relief
In identifying our problem, we considered the restrictions given to us by National. One challenge we had was the fact that self-driving cars have not yet been implemented at a large-scale, so our problem likely wouldn’t be directly related to … Continue reading FCA: IDENTIFY
Mayu: When she is not in class or open studio, you can find her watching Studio Ghibli movies or listening to Mura Masa. JeongSu: He finds joy in eating spicy and Japanese food, fixed gear bikes, and collecting fountain pens. Claire: She … Continue reading Meet Team CPR
Coby Kaskel – team lead and all-around chill dude Beril Uzmen – Turkish delight Angelo Ragan – loves La Croix Connor Rothschild – enjoys petting dogs Irene Kwon – lover of canned peaches and corgis Shane DiGiovanna – also enjoys … Continue reading Meet Team Access Rice
SPAM Expo in Austin, Minnesota (April 23-24) Continue reading feedthekids: EXPO
The following are prototypes we’ve created for our third testing session: Key Takeaways from Testing Session III Overall goal: To help value shoppers shop with the intention of buying produce by formulating either mental or physical shopping lists Users would like … Continue reading feedthekids: BUILD/TEST for PROTOTYPE III
The following are prototypes we’ve created for our second testing session: Key Takeaways from Testing Session II Users who said they would use the shopping cards were users who already make shopping lists The habit that we are focusing on … Continue reading feedthekids: BUILD/TEST for PROTOTYPE II
The following are prototypes we’ve created for our first testing session: Key Takeaways from Testing Session I We should organize information functionally; these one pagers need to have a function/goal The one-pagers need to accomplish more than just providing information; they … Continue reading feedthekids: BUILD/TEST for PROTOTYPE I
Measures of Success In order to measure the effectiveness of our solutions, we created many measures that would indicate our success in addressing our HCW statement. The measures that directly deal with the families activities include: The family cooks 5 … Continue reading feedthekids: REFRAME
Food Insecurity is a major issue in the world! OMG maybe people shouldn’t waste as much food. We looked into the problem and discovered an organization that works with the Houston Food Bank that is taking action to assist families … Continue reading feedthekids: IMMERSE
Who are we? David Moon – wears fresh gold chains Claire Peng – likes wearing a DOPE maroon Martel sweatshirt Jake Peacock – all around baller Cesar Soto – dank at soccer Molly Reilly – has a dope water bottle Maddie Bowen – lively and dope … Continue reading Meet Team Houston Food Security (aka “feedthekids”)
What did you initially build / test? What does your prototype look like and how will you improve on it? We built a very low-fidelity prototype of the entire backpack, with a foldable rigid bottom and a detachable accordion folder. … Continue reading West U Backpacks: BUILD/TEST
What did you initially build / test? What does your prototype look like and how will you improve on it? We initially built an ebb-and-flow aquaponics system. We will be planting and adding fish to this system soon. Our prototype … Continue reading Aquaponics: BUILD/TEST
What did you initially build / test? What does your prototype look like and how will you improve on it? We have started drawing and making a prototype of the “frame” idea. We are playing with the structure and what … Continue reading Hermann Park Kiosk: BUILD/TEST
What did you initially build / test? What does your prototype look like and how will you improve on it? We initially built our rigid frame prototype by using a v-belt and making it rigid with sticks attached to the … Continue reading Compact Dressing Station: BUILD/TEST
What ideas did you present? We presented on one idea in each category of solutions: observe to understand the story, move to understand the story, create to understand the story. What feedback did you receive from Mid-Semester Review? We received … Continue reading Hermann Park Kiosk: IDEATE