Kategorie: Project Progress Report

[A#2, P2] Datenerhebung – Planung und Durchführung

Define the goals of your data gathering session

The goal of our data gathering session is to find out the needs of our user group by using an interview for qualitative answers and a questionnaire for quantitative answers. Both are supposed to give answers to the questions which approach the users take to find recipes, which difficulties they experience and if the potential users would cook more if the provided features of the cooking app would fit the users needs better.

In addition, we want to find answers to the throwaway behavior and how it might be affected through our app idea.

Based on your goal, derive the kind of people you want to gather data from

Our users are food enthusiasts, hobby cooks and people who would like to cook more than they do right now.

The interview was with a person who cooks on a daily basis and also likes to take the time to cook more time consuming meals in his free time.

Decide on your data gathering method

We decided to do a semi-structured interview as well as a questionnaire as a data gathering method. The reason that we use two data gathering methods is, that expect to get more qualitative answers through the interview and more quantitative answers through the questionnaire.

Decide how you handle the topics pilot study & data recording

We decided to not do a pilot study due to time restrictions. During the interview we took notes and wrote it down in more detail afterwards.

The website in which we created the questionnaire offers an evaluation tool which also lists the submitted answers tabulated.

Interview

Planst du deine Mahlzeiten im Voraus?

Nur am Wochenende für Sonntag oder Feiertage. Sonst entscheide ich jeden Tag für den aktuellen Tag was ich essen möchte. Daher geh ich auch jeden Tag einkaufen.

Also planst du meistens Freitags deine Mahlzeiten fürs Wochenende?

Ja, meistens dann für Freitag Samstag und Sonntag. Manchmal aber auch nur für Samstag und Sonntag, wenn ich sonst nicht viel zu tun habe.

Benutzt du irgenwelche Hilfmittel zur Essensplanung?

Ja, mehrere Apps. Die eine schlägt mir täglich Gerichte vor. Manchmal passen die aber nicht so gut.. Dann benutze ich die andere App und suche dort nach anderen Rezepten.

Wieso passen die machmal denn nicht?

Ich mag keine Pile zum Beispiel und die sind oft in vegetarischen Gerichten drin.

Traust du dir zu Rezepte selbstständig abzuändern, wenn Pilze drin sind?

Nein, Pilze haben glaub ich einen zu eigenen Geschmack. Ich weiß nicht mit was man das ersetzen kann.

Also würdest du gerne nur Rezepte ohne Zutaten angezeigt bekommen die du nicht magst oder Alternative Zutaten?

Ja, ein Filter wäre gut, aber auch Alternativen fände ich manchmal gut.

Wenn du dann ein Rezept gefunden hast das dir gefällt, wie bereitest du dich aufs Kochen vor?

Als erstes schreibe ich mir eine Liste auf dem Handy. Dabei schau ich schon auch ob ich manche Sachen für die Rezepte bereits zuhause habe.

Aber suchst du extra Rezepte um die vorhandenen Zutaten zu verwenden?

Nein, das mache ich meistens nicht.

Heißt das, dass du auch öfter mal was wegschmeißen musst?

Es geht. Meistens mache ich einfach größere Portionen, damit nicht zu viele Lebensmittel schlecht werden. Wenn es bereits gekocht ist, habe ich keine Probleme es auch schnell aufzubrauchen.

Questionnaire

Kochen und Planung:

  • Planst du deine Mahlzeiten im Voraus?
    • Ja
    • Nein (Falls nein, dann weiter ab ‚Einkaufen‘)
  • Wann planst du deine Mahlzeiten?
    • Am Tag an dem ich sie koche
    • Am Wochenende
    • Beim Einkaufen
  • Findest du es schwierig deine Mahlzeiten zu planen?
    • Hängt davon ab wie viel ich zu tun habe
    • Ja
    • Nein
  • Wie viel Zeit verbringst du mit der Essensplanung?
    • Wenig Zeit (5-10 Minuten)
    • Mittlere Zeit (15-20 Minuten)
    • Lange Zeit (30-40 Minuten)

Lebensmittel einkaufen

  • Wie oft gehst du einkaufen?
    • Ich gehe nicht einkaufen (wenn Sie diese Antwort wählen, dann machen Sie weiter bei der nächsten Kategorie: Rezepte suchen)
    • Täglich
    • Wöchentlich
    • Gelegentlich
    • Wenn ich merke, dass ich kein Essen mehr habe
  • Machst du eine Einkaufsliste bevor einkaufen gehen?
    • Ja, immer
    • Nein
    • Mal so, mal so
  • Wie bereitest du deine Einkaufsliste vor?
    • Ich gucke im Kühlschrank, um zu sehen, was mir fehlt
    • Ich überlege vorher was ich kochen möchte und mache dann dafür eine Einkaufsliste
    • Ich notiere mir sofort, wenn es etwas fehlt und nehme die entstehende Einkaufsliste zum Einkaufen mit
  • Falls du eine Einkaufsliste machst, welche Form hat sie?
    • Digital, auf meinem Smartphone
    • Papier
  • Wie oft kaufst du Lebensmittel, die nicht auf deiner Liste stehen?
    • Nie (Wenn du ‚Nie‘ gewählt hast, gehe bitte zu der nächsten Kategorie: ‚Rezepte suchen‘)
    • Ab und zu
    • Jedes Mal, wenn ich einkaufen gehe
  • Wieso kaufst du Lebensmittel, die nicht auf deiner Liste stehen?
    • Weil sie gut aussehen
    • Weil ich vergessen habe sie auf meine Liste zu schreiben

Rezepte suchen:

  • Probierst du gerne neue Rezepte aus?
    • Ja, immer
    • Nein
    • Ich esse lieber, was ich schon kenne, aber es schadet nicht, ab und zu, etwas Neues auszuprobieren.
  • Wie oft suchst du nach Rezepten?
    • Nie (Wenn du ‚Nie‘ gewählt hast, gehe bitte zu der nächsten Kategorie: Speisereste)
    • Manchmal
    • Immer
  • Ärgerst du dich, wenn du ein Rezept findest, wo eine Zutat enthalten ist, die du nicht essen darfst/willst?
    • Ja, sehr
    • Nein, ich kann damit leben und mir ein neues Rezept suchen
    • Nein, ich kann das Rezept selber abändern
  • Wäre es dir lieber gewesen, wenn du bereits ein Filter sitzt für die Zutaten?
    • Ja
    • Nein, ich will lieber alles sehen
  • Wie viel Zeit verbringst du beim Suchen nach einem Rezept?
    • Ca. 10 Minuten
    • Ca. 10-20 Minuten
    • Ca. 30 Minuten
    • Mehr als 30 Minuten

Speisereste:

  • Wie häufig werden Essensreste (altes Obst und Gemüse, Milchprodukte, Fleisch) weggeworfen?
    • Ich schmeiße jede Woche etwas weg
    • Ich schmeiße seltener als einmal im Monat etwas weg
    • Ich schmeiße fast nie Lebensmittel weg
  • Was sind die Gründe wegen denen du Lebensmittel wegwirfst?
    • Essen wird eingekauft und dann vergessen
    • Ich kaufe mehr als ich brauche
    • Andere Gründe (Textfeld)
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[A#2, P1] Data

For our in-depth interview, we created the following questions while the goal was to become aware of the meal ideation process

1- How do you plan your meals?
2- When do you plan your meals?
3- What do you think about fast food?

4- Do you cook regularly?
Yes => Where are your recipes coming from?
No => Name the reasons
5- What do you think about a meal planner?
We are developing an app which is recommending you recipes for food that you do not know how to use. It is new because your only input are the ingredients that you want to use for it; and allergies.
6- On a scale from 0 to 10, how willing are you to download an app which helps you with the cooking?
7- If you had such a mobile application, would you use it for your daily eating habits or occasionally?
8- Which ingredients generally remains when you must go for groceries again?
9- What colour intuitively represents food in your opinion?
10- What form of recipe is appealing to you the most?
A- Text
B- Pictures
C- Video
11- If you think about your social circle, to how many acquaintances would you recommend such an app?
12- How would you like such an application to be called?

In our project, it’s best to analyze existing software

1.Document your method and the type of data you are gathering.

During our research, we become inspired by a good working project that we discovered. Our analysis is done with the following steps: 1. Try out the use case written in the previous blog post in the app 2. Protocol during the process all thoughts and become aware of other (potentially for us interesting) use cases 3. Describe the other use cases.

2.Store your collected data.

Supercook was created by Assaf Rozenblatt an it`s an responsive website, Android and iOS App.

„Supercook wants to make life easier for everyone who cooks at home! Our mission is to enable smarter, quicker decisions about what recipes to make and what ingredients to use using advanced technology and all the recipe content on the web. Based in New York, Supercook has a distinct focus on solving the practical problems of modern home cooks: how to waste less food, how to use up perishable or seasonal ingredients and how to keep track of everything in the kitchen“ supercook.com can be easily found with a search engine, just by typing in the word supercook. You will find it on the the top. Similar in the Appstores.

You can see a tutorial screen with the information „Speak to add ingredients Adding ingredients is easy Open your fridge, tap the mic icon, say what you have“ and also „Every ingredient you add unlocks more recipes“, „vegan lasagna without tomato“ and „Search over 1 million recipes“. You can click on „Skip“ or „Get Started“ while both buttons bring you to the same start screen.

On this screen, you can see pretty clearly that it`s time to add ingredients here. You have 3 possibilities to do that. At the top of the screen, you can write in a search bar, after writing the first character you will see the available ingredients. The second option is in the middle of the site and it is a list of ingredients (sorted in meat, vegetables etc.) while each is clickable because they are buttons. The third one is to use natural language processing. At the centre of the screen is always a microphone, which is also a button. Additional to the important button „See Recipes“ which we will click now, we can see other buttons too which will be explained at the end of this analysis.

The relevant/ingredient-dependent recipes are „hidden“ behind one more button. Following it you will see the wished list of recipes for the ingredients chosen, while the same as before each is at the same time a button. Next to the recipes which can be done with the selected ingredients, we can see underneath some others which require 1 more ingredient. Next to this list, you can see filter like „video only“ or „meal type“ and you can also select more ingredients. With a click on a recipe, it`s clear that the categorization is done with tags because we can see here the tags. You can also see here a rating, the cooking time needed, the necessary amount or weight of the ingredients and nutrition facts. With another click, we will be forwarded to one of a few websites because Supercook does not host the full recipes. You can see here links to similar recipes under „You might also like“ too. If you step back to where we found the „hidden“ button we can also see the more ingredients selection and the filter. Additional: Some recipes are shown in a big horizontal slider with the headline „Featured Recipes“ or in many (>20) smaller slider with categories like „low carbs“, „gluten free“ or „cookies“; always with a picture.

Besides the „See Recipes“ button you can see a menu with the name „My Pantry“ where you can deselect your ingredients, a shoppting list which allows to save ingredients in a seperate list and an acctount mode. „If you sign up for an account, your ingredients, and dietary restrictions, will be saved on Supercooks servers. This means you can sign into your account from any device and everything will be synced up. Having an account also allows you to “favorite” recipes you like so you can easily find them later.“

Who did what?

Christian was writing and Mouadh was leading during the gathering

What did we learn?

To come closer to our goal this week was very helpful because we discovered a working product and it`s flow producing. The interview made us aware of the community of people who want to count calories and we will focus on that niche

What went well?

If we can continue like this week it`s very likely that our product will be great.

What do we want to improve?

All writing was good this week but we had problems with the data formating.

[A#2, P6] Datenerhebung – Planung und Durchführung

Define the goals of your data gathering session

Wir wollen unsere Funktionen durch die Meinungen der NutzerInnen in der Priorität einordnen können. Es geht uns also vorallem darum, einschätzen zu können, welche Features am Wichtigsten oder am Hilfreichsten sind. Was sind die Must- und was sind die Nice to Haves.
Außerdem wollen wir unsere NutzerInnen – mit den Funktionen im Hinterkopf – kennenlernen. Dabei kommen natürlich Fragen auf, was für Haustiere sie besitzen, ob diese Einschränkungen haben (für zusätzliche Funktionen zur Rücksichtnahme, vielleicht einer Abstufung an Schwierigkeitsgraden der Gassirouten) und auch allgemeine Fragen, die die Handhabung der App betreffen. Wie und wann würden die NutzerInnen sie benutzen?

Based on your goal, derive the kind of people you want to gather data from

Unsere Teilnehmer sind vorallem Hundebesitzer für das Interview und Haustierbesitzer für die Umfrage.
Dabei interviewen wir mit den längeren Interviews Hannas Schwester, Lara und Ailis‘ Kollegin.

Decide on your data gathering method

Which methods are you using and why?

  • Wir werden größere Interviews mit Einzelpersonen durchführen. Desweiteren erstellen wir eine Umfrage mit einem Onlineformular. Ein Interview ist gut, um detaillierte Antworten zu bekommen, den Problemspace und die Fokusgruppe kennenzulernen & zu analysieren. Wir werden damit herausfinden, worauf die UserGruppe wert legt, lernen die Umgebung der user Gruppe kennen, und finden heraus, wie sie sich die App-Nutzung vorstellen und was sie sich von der App wünschen würden?
  • Mit einer Umfrage erreichen wir eine grobe Einschätzung der Prioritäten von Features und Bedürfnissen der Nutzer. Wichtige Gründe für eine solche Umfrage ist die schnellere/einfachere Datensammlung und Auswertung und ein gute Vergleichbarkeit.

What type of interview?

Wir planen ein semi-strukturiertes Interview zu machen, welches mehr strukturiert ist als unstrukturiert. Wir arbeiten mit vielen geschlossenen Fragen , haben aber für jeden Themen bzw. Feature Bereich mindestens eine offene Frage.

What kind of data do you want to gather?

Mit dem Interview wollen wir vor allem qualitative Daten sammeln. Mit der Umfrage wollen wir hauptsächlich quantitative Daten sammeln, aber auch qualitative.

Decide how you handle the topics pilot study & data recording.

Eine Pilotstudie werden wir aus zeitlichen Gründen nur für die Umfrage durchführen. Hierfür nehmen wir Personen aus dem Bekanntenkreis, nicht aus der Fokus-userGruppe. Dabei liegt der Fokus auf der Formulierung der Fragen und der Verständlichkeit für den Teilnehmer.

Data Recording

  • Interview: Notizen (schriftlich) – Das ist schöner für den Befragten und einfacher in der Auswertung.
  • Umfrage: Tabellen, Schriftliches, … was das Tool hergibt, das wir benutzen. Je nach Fragetyp wird das unterschiedlich ausführlich sein.
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[A#1, P1] HelloFridge

Who is your user group?

Our stakeholders are hobby cooks at all levels and with different amount of spare time for preparing their meals. Our unique selling point is the special way how we approach the search of the recipe because the user will enter the ingredients and not the meal`s name.

What is the exact problem?

Take-away or food delivery is convenient, but it’s often too much plastic. To protect the environment we want to make it easier to find out which meal you can do with leftovers. From our own experience, we know: Even if we have ingredients, sometimes we decide not to cook because we are just too hungry and want to save time.

Where is your user group interacting with your software?

Because our goal is to encourage humans to finish everything at home before their food becomes bad, the people will use it at home, on the way home or before shopping, which is in most cases on the way home too.

When is the user group interacting with your software?

People are motivated the most to use leftovers when they are a few moments before mealtime like breakfast, lunch or dinner.

Why do your users need this software?

Inspiration helps with creativity and creativity helps to make delicious and novel meals.

How do you want to solve the problem?

The existing recipe websites will provide a valuable source of data. Our interview partner are frequent delivery user and we will make it with react native or flutter.

Use-case

a-Cook opens the application after he/she looked up his groceries at home
b-Cook selects the ingredients with the quantity where he/she can select single ingredients or a selection. For some items, the cook can select the weight(like cabbage) for others he/she needs to choose the amount (like eggs).
c-App start searching for dishes, possible to make with the ingredients.
d-Given the ingredients, the application will return a list of dish suggestions

Nice-to-have

-The function add new recipe. Since in the world of social media the mindset and practice of sharing is very popular we expect that a lot of people person will create content (the recipes) the same way they consume it… and the food.
-Machine learning to identify food in pictures. The user just needs to take a photo of the inside of his fridge. We can use this solution or that one.
-Shopping recommendations according to your previous dishes.

Marketing

Start a campaign where people post photos of the inside of their fridge #youarewhatyoueat #hellofridge

Who did what?

We did the brainstorm together but Mouadh was more involved in the research while Christian more involved in the writing. We lost Julian on the way.

What did we learn?

We identified some interesting solutions already and also had additional ideas.

What went well?

We had a good conversation and both of us are excited to make this project alive

What do we want to improve?

In the future we want to improve our writting tool because currently it`s bold.

[A#1, P7] Veritas

  • Project 7
  • Week 1
  1. Who is your user group?
    Anyone interested in politics and news.
  2. What is the exact problem?
    Today’s news is often inherently biased and lacks nuanced journalism. Some more, such as breitbart news, and some less, such as reuters. With the recent surge of social media, a large share of unsuspecting readers fall into a so called filter bubble, i.e., they only see news of specific political backgrounds, which they are anticipated to like. Some think, this may lead to political extremism [https://www.connectsafely.org/social-media-can-lead-to-political-extremism/], further deepening preconceived opinions and ideas. Anyone interested in politics and news.
  3. Where is your user group interacting with your software?
    When the general public are using, e.g., social media, and want to fact check an article or get a different view on the topic the article is about.
  4. When is the user group interacting with your software?
    The “check” might be both 5 minutes for the particular single news and also longer time, depending on how much the user wants to learn about different sources.
  5. Why do your users need this software?
    We believe that the majority of readers in filter bubbles are simply unaware of other political views, but when notified of their biased opinions, are willing to get an overview of the entire political spectrum. Usually, people seek to find out the truth, making this software particularly interesting.
  6. How do you want to solve the problem?
    We want to provide a web page where users can provide an url of an article which, then, gets placed onto a political compass. Other articles of the same topic will be shown on the compass too.

Reflection

On our first meeting we decided to give ourselves some time to come up with ideas and look for possible interviewee. We presented each idea and after thorough discussion agreed on the final one that we will work on during the semester. We considered all the pros and coins and general details that we need at this stage. Formulating the pitch was quite straightforward after that. As our users group is quite wide we need to definitely work on narrowing this group of interests before starting gathering the data.

[A#1, P2] Foodie

Who is your user group?

Our user group includes cooking enthusiasts who like to minimize their waste of leftover cooking ingredients and need some food inspiration as well as some help to organize the weekly shopping list. Stakeholders might be grocery stores, cookbook authors and publishers.

What is the exact problem?

It is difficult to use leftover cooking ingredients without having a matching recipe. Another challenge is to find the time to think about possible recipes due to work or study time restrictions. People with allergies or people who follow a specific diet have to manually filter out certain ingredients

Where is your user group interacting with your software?

Mostly at home, but it’s also possible to interact with the software while they are on their way home or to the supermarket.

When is the user group interacting with your software?

During meal planning.

Why do your users need this software? Why is that interesting?

Now that a lot of people are working or studying from home the need of having home cooked meals increases. However, many don’t have a lot of different recipes in their repertoire so the need to find different recipes increases. Many apps have countless recipes which means it can be hard to choose exactly the one you want, and it gets even more frustrating if after choosing one you see that one of the main ingredients is exactly the one you are allergic to or aren’t allowed to use based on your current diet.

How do you want to solve the problem?

We want to create a mobile app that provides the user with recipe ideas, that can be filtered by ingredients they already have at home and ingredients they don’t want in their meal. The app also supports the user by automatically creating a shopping list for all the chosen meals while excluding the ingredients that are already available. 

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[A#1, P4] JuurMates

Assignment #1 – Pitch Your Project

Who is your user group?
Our user group are law students who have to discuss legal issues. The app can also be used by other people engaging in law subjects who want to check a legal issue.

What is the exact problem?
Studying law is very learning-intensive. Because of the massive amount of content it is very easy to loose track of things.
When checking a legal issue (which is a very common task throughout university) you have to proceed in a structured way. To do so, there are standardized test schemes. Those test schemes are highly variable and nested. In certain cases some points are more important than others, some also may be irrelevant at all, some have to be expanded and so on.
The problem with the present system (e.g. many different documents) is, that those are not dynamic at all. This can lead to the usage of 10 or more different schemes to complete one assignment for university.

Where is your user group interacting with your software?
At their desk, in libraries, maybe even in trains – wherever they learn. It could possibly also be used for exercise courses in universities.

When is the user group interacting with your software?
When they are learning, writing a paper (e.g. Bachelors-/Masters-Thesis) or writing an open-book-exam.

Why do your users need this software?
As pointed our earlier, the great amount of content demands for a structured course of action. Obviously the present solution does not match that requirement. Therefore it is necessary to implement a software-solution that is dynamic and features a clear presentation of the needed scheme. This reduces the cognitive load for the students so that they can focus and learn the important contents of their present case.

How do you want to solve the problem?
Since studying is not bound to the students own desks where they most probably have an Computer, but takes place in trains, libraries or even coffee-shops we aim at creating an app for mobile devices that either guides the student through the specific scheme with questions for every step or that provides a possibility to dynamically create full schemes based on selections of the user. The actual implementation depends on the needs and wished of the user group and has to be specified in the upcoming interview.

Reflection

Who did what?
We brainstormed all together to find a suitable subject with good access to the user group. The actual contact to a student that explained the problem was made by Tobias which is why he (i.e. me) writes this Blog post.
Anil creates the presentation and the project pitch.
Simon came up with the brilliant name and provided ideas for the possible solutions for the problem.

What have we learned?
Understanding the users problems is hard. Especially in a field (like law) which is quite new to us and where we do not have expertise.

What went well?
We found pretty fast a user group which we have good access to. Also this group came up with a good problem that seems to be very manageable by algorithms and digital systems.

What do we want to improve?
Due to other courses and projects it was very hard to find dates for meeting. Therefore we just managed to meet Saturday evening which is far away from ideal. We want to improve that and meet earlier so we are not in fear of getting in a hurry.

And maybe we want to improve our group-picture…

[A#1, P6] Go Walkies!

Assignment #1 – Pitch your project

1. Who is your user group?​​​​​​​

Our Usergroup includes everyone who has a pet (espacially dogs) and wants to interact with other petholders or track the everyday life of his pet. Maybe even peope who think about getting a pet. Other stakeholders could be: Vets, petshop owners, travel companies/organizations, appartment renters, pet trainers, nationalparks … – everybody who has any (business) connection with pets. As contact persons we have family members and friends in an offline community.

2. What is the exact problem?

For dog owners (e.g.) it can be difficult to meet other people with dogs – espacially now with Corona-rules – and to have a community for a dog walk or training. There are a few options, but not a perfect one with even other features alltogether, like a map with trips for people going walkies or a checklist for traveling with your pet.

3. Where is your user group interacting with your software?

They could be at home (Desktop, Laptop, Tablet, Smartphone, etc) or en route (Smartphone, etc).

4. When is the user group interacting with your software?

If a user wants to plan a (longer) trip with his pet or just a walkie, he needs our software to do it. Planning can be done everywhere (in front of the TV, on the toilet, waiting in a queue, …). For the tracking tools of our software applies the same, but it is used more often, perhaps on a daily basis (there might be a reminder for doing an entry).

5. Why do your users need this software?

The Planning part with a checklist for traveling with a pet is needed for just that. The users does not need to look in several sources for information, formulars and so on, because he has our software. But even more important (because it is happening more often), is the „finding a community“ part and getting variety in the daily walkies in nearer (?) environment and improve the social life of the users pet.

6. How do you want to solve the problem?

Using an open source map, the users can add routes, mark single locations (Highlights, pet locations, etc) for other people to see. One option is the location – feature, so that the users can find other users on his way.

(for our Reflexion please look at page 2)

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[A#1, P8] Social Gaming

Project Idea

  1. Who is your user group?
    People who are in need of social gathering during the pandemic time and want to have board games night online. Other stakeholders might be board game companies that want to   create an online version of their board game (or already have one) and want it to be known by a broad audience.
  1. What is the exact problem?
    It is difficult to have an overview over the online board games and thus to choose a game
  1. Where is your user group interacting with your software?
    At home with access to internet and a browser 
  1. When is the user group interacting with your software?
    At any time in their free time, the interacting with software depends on the common online time of someone’s friend circle
  1. Why do your users need this software?
    1. Pandemic time reduce the chance of meeting people physically
    2. psychological and mental need (lonely, lack so social contact, need to relax etc)
    3. time-consuming to search an online version of a social board game on google, currently there is no web app which helps people to communicate visually as well as play game together in the same application
  1. How do you want to solve the problem?
    We want to solve this problem by creating a web application: 
    1. helps people virtually interacting with each other 
    2. provides an overview of different kinds of social games, helps with selection
    3. includes embedded version of the online board game in our web application so the users won’t have to switch between different websites for different games all the time  

Reflection

Our team worked together on this blog post (with video chatting), we learned how to initialize a project idea with basic consideration for stakeholders, problem solving format, etc. The initial formulation of the project idea was quite smooth,  the only point we need to consider is how we specify our use groups and if we have access to them for further process. 

[A#1, P3] Scenic route

The scenic way of life: Scenic route

TEAM NAME: The scenic way of life

  1. Who is your user group?
    Our user group are people in big cities who want to spend their free time outside hiking in the most beautiful landscape possible.
  1. What is the exact problem?
    In this corona time, people cannot do many sporting activities, but they still have free time and wanna stay active in the best way possible, so they often choose having a walk. The problem is that existing maps applications suggest the fastest/shortest way to a location and not the most scenic one – the one person would love to spend their free time on.
  1. Where is your user group interacting with your software?
    The user is interacting with the software outside, in parks, on the street – in big cities.
  1. When is the user group interacting with your software?
    The user group is interacting whenever they have spare time (e.g. when going for an afternoon walk, on their way home, etc)
  1. Why do your users need this software?
    Hiking in metropolitan areas has been proven to be dangerous and stressful for pedestrians as well as for bikers and others involved in urban traffic. Users need our software to improve their quality of life and safety. Furthermore they are able to involve in cultural and educational aspects.
  1. How do you want to solve the problem?
    We want to create a mobile app that gives a route suggestion based on user’s preferences: 
    1. The level of hardness: easy, medium or advanced routes
    2. How much time user wants to spend
    3. Where does user want to start the route
    4. Where does user want to end the route

Reflexion:

Wer hat welchen Beitrag geleistet?
We developed the general idea together. After Milos generated the Blogpost, Marc prepared the slides for the presentation and Sebastian thought of the name and designed the group picture.
Afterwards we prepared the presentation.

Was habt ihr gelernt?
A sort of think tank to throw ideas around is a fun and productive way to develop and map out an idea.

Was lief gut?
We developed the idea quite fast and all of us were happy with it. Also the distribution of work wasn’t a problem and everyone was happy doing his part.

Was möchtet ihr verbessern?
One group member was a bit late to the meeting, so the other ones had to wait for him. This shouldn’t happen again. Also we should figure out if it is possible to edit other person’s Blogpost.