2.009 Final Presentation Red Team December 4, 2002
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2.009 Final Presentation
Red Team
December 4, 2002
December 4, 2002 2.009 Red Team
Agenda
• Background
• Table
• Cue
• Table Accessories
• Customer Feedback
• Business Models
• Questions
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Background
• 1.6 million developmentally disabled(DD) children in US
• Range of disability levels
• Education of DD children– Social interaction
– Motor skill development
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Background
• DD education through game-play– Proprioception and kinesthetic awareness
– Development of communication skills
• Challenges of standard pool
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Table
• Design goals– Improve accessibility
– Simplify game play
– Create friendlyaesthetics
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Table
• Fabrication, assembly, andmaterials– Table surface
– Two identical pieces
– Shipping of product
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Cue
• Design goals– Simplify shooting
– Develop motor skills
– Safety
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Table Accessories
• Design goals– Facilitate breaking
– Engage user
– Vary difficulty level
– Encourage creativity and communication
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Customer Feedback
• Formative Evaluation– Interaction with DD children throughout
project
– Advantages• Design decisions made by testing rather than
assumption
• Compressed development time
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Customer Feedback
• Key Results– Table: shape altered to enhance game play
– Cue: trigger moved for intuitive use
– Accessories: basics modified to eliminate balljumping
• Safe, simple and robust!
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Business Models:Table
• Price: $2,000.00
• Low volume deployment model(100 units per year)– Large centers for DD children
• Further options– High income home market
– Philanthropic organizations
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Business Models:Cue and Accessories
• Prices:– Cue $20.00
– Accessories (4) $100.00
• Medium volume deployment model(10,000 units per year)– Centers with pool tables
– General home market
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Acknowledgements
• Faculty mentors: David Wallace, ChrisMagee, Sandy Campbell
• Pappalardo staff: Richard Fenner,Stephen Haberek, Robert Gertsen, BobNuttall, Joe Cronin
• Cardinal Cushing School representatives:Tom McElman, June Smith
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And a Special Thanks
• …to the students at Cardinal CushingSchool.
• The table’s new home….
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Are there any questions?
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References
• Information on Formative Evaluation wasobtained from the Northwest RegionalEducation Laboratory– http://www.nwrel.org/evaluation/formative.sht
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• Quotes on table surface cost wereprovided by Bellcomb Technologies,Incorporated.
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