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Introduction:
Project Introduction
Meet Team KiCK iT

Our Design Process:
Research
Selecting a User Group
Design Intervention
Concept Development
First Iteration
Product Refinement
Overview of Final Product

Final Product:
Final Presentation

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Team KiCK iT Design Process:
What Our Product Will Do

The following is a description of our product in terms of what it will do.

The forms included in our product network

The following are some generalizations of the forms our communication network will include.

  • home file storage and charger
  • portable recording/viewing device
  • wearable component
  • portable charger and stand

The Functions of our Product Network:

The following are description of the functions these forms would have.

Home Unit:
  • stores information like a scrapbook or file server
  • views information through TV or home computer
  • charges portable units
  • allows status of protable units to be seen

File Storage:

  • records media in a multi-platform format
  • media is automatically saved to the Home unit
  • one way recording for privacy

Functions of Portable Unit:

    Visual Functions of Portable Unit:

    • record video and still images
    • view video and still images in either real time or as asynchronous (timed) media

    Audio Functions of Portable Unit:

    • record audio
    • playback (real time/asyncronous)

    Touch Interface of Portable Unit:

    • use a stylus for handwritten messages or drawings

What our product could do.
What our product should do.



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Copyright 2001 Carnegie Mellon University. September, 2001.