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This
Week
Wk1: Sept 17-Sept 23
Wk2: Sept 24-Sept 30
Wk3:
Oct 1 - Oct 7
Wk3:
Oct 1 - Oct 7
Wk4:
Oct8-Oct14
Wk5: Oct15-Oct21
Wk6:
Oct 22-Oct28
Wk7:
Oct 29-Nov 4
Wk8: Nov5-Nov11
Wk9: Nov12-Nov18
Wk10: Nov19-Nov25
Wk11:
Nov26-Dec2
Wk12: Nov26-Dec2
Wk13: Nov26-Dec2
A1
Research Direction
A2 Opportunity Framing
A3 Concept Development
A4 Second Iteration
A5 Final Presentation
First
Iteration of Concept
[develop
a series of concepts, then selected one for further refinement]
Team YoG decided to concentrate its design efforts on the deaf community. The initial design attempts to address both the manualists and oralists as well as supporting deaf to deaf, deaf to hearing, local, remote, text, video, and audio connections.
YoG
use Scenarios:
- Remote Scenario- Deaf to Deaf
- Local Scenario- Deaf to Hearing
Yog Form
exploration - (see
A3 Report)
The deaf user is not like me
Tuesday Oct 23
Team YoG maps products designed for the deaf
and blind communities in order to gain a better understanding of the users
and the currently available products.
Friday
Oct
19
Team meets with West Penn School for Deaf
[minutes to be linked]
Wednesday Oct 17
Team meets with the Vision Center – Craig St.
[minutes
to be linked]
Tuesday Oct
16
Team YoG brainstorms a 3G concept for the care-givers' community.
Assisting carees requires a network of people: nurse, doctor, family,
teacher, and so on. The YoG Device can aid to this support network.
The following link shows our brainstorming process for this concept.
Concept
Possibility "A" Identification
(pdf)
Tuesday Oct 9/Thursday
Oct 11
Through
interviewing faculty, and observing and interacting with students at the
Western PA School for Blind Children, Team YoG learns more about the users.
Following, we brainstormed a possible concept, Concept Possibility "A".
These images show some
of our findings.
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Also see www.wheelchairnet.org