Tutor Renee Noortman · 2020-06-18 · The final step was the preparation of our presenta-tion stand for the demo day. Apart from the prototype that was made, the stand consisted

TutorRenee Noortman

Team 50 Venggkadesh Sathevil 1034195 Barten Verschoor 1230724 Jasmijn Verhoef 1227239 Mathias Verheijden 1234306 Loïs Verhoef 1230626

Interviews

Doctor interview

Research

Sketches

Prototype

Demo day User manual Pitch Poster

Reflections Barten Vengg Jasmijn Mathias Loïs

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Having received positive grades for the midterm report, we were assured that we were on the right track. This moti-vated us to dive deep into further de-velopment of our concept.The aim was to use a range of differ-ent techniques to help understand how the concept would be used in today's society, and thereby further develop our concept.

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IntervIews

It seemed obvious to us that gaining feedback from potential users would be rather valuable as it would provide us with new and different insights. This was done by conducting a survey in the city center of Eindhoven with people of varying ages. These insights together with our own personal intuition were then used to make some more sketches. This process re-sulted in multiple iterations of our concept that were then compared in order to find out what proper-ties would be incorporated or left out concerning the functionality and aesthetics of the final design.

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Users

Ask different age groups (from young kids to elderly people) in order to receive a wide variety of answers and ideas.

Function(1) What do you think this is? (give little hints but go with the flow if an interesting conversation appears).(2) Would you use it, and what about others?(5) What would you like it to do?(6) What would you change?(7) Do you think you ‘need’ it, and what about others?

Physical properties(3) How does it look?(4) How does it feel?(8) How would you like it to feel (give suggestion)?(9) How would you like it to look (give suggestions)?

Person 1(+- 17 year old boy):-Maybe you could focus on physical injuries as well.-I would use it, but only like once a week.-Don’t let the program give a diagnosis, leave that to the doctor.-Maybe add some kind of reminder (alarms, lights, etc.).-Use bluetooth to upload data from the instruments (so avoid the cloud for privacy reasons).-Make it compact! You won’t have to take it on your daily commute, but design it in a way that it will be easy to take the kit with you on holidays or short trips.Of course it depends on what kind of data you try to gather. Let’s say you would like to measure your blood pressure multiple times a day, it would be useful to make it so small that it won’t take up too much space in your bag.-A box would be right.-Perhaps design multiple kits for different people who have different lifestyles.

Person 2(3 first years students):-I am not ill very often, so I feel like I wouldn’t really use it.-You should probably target more elderly people and/or chronically ill people.-I am not sure whether it will be popular.-If I were to use your product, I wouldn’t bother to take it with me. I would just do the measurements at home and incorporate them into my daily routine. Therefore it doesn’t have to be very compact.-It would be useful to put the data in the cloud so that I could access it from my phone as well.

Person 3(30 something year old woman):-I really dig the concept!-I feel like it would be popular, as more and more people really care about their health these days.-So don’t just target the sick and elderly, target everyone!-Do make it small and easy to take it with you (it should easily fit in a ladies bag).-Make the data available for the user as well, not just for the doctor.-Make it hip and give it a nice appearance.-It should be rather flat.

Person 4(young guy who works at the spar):-Do not put the data in the cloud.-Make it so that it warns you before you are get ill, if that is possible.-Let it be like some kind of MOT test (APK keuring) for your body.-If you do that, it will be used a lot, otherwise it is something for elderly and/or people who are ill.-Design it so that it will be used at home (not on the road etc.). People will make the measurements part of their evening routine.-Use red and white, a hearth, ying yang, in the design.

The next step was seeking feedback from a professional in the medical field. An interview was arranged with a doctor. This was in order to find out which kinds of data are the most important when it comes to the detection of a broad range of illnesses and other health relat-ed issues. Implementing the feedback from the doctor, it became clear which instruments to incorporate into the kit.

doctor IntervIew

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Doctor

Really try to figure out what the possibilities are and what data you would need to gather.

(1) Explain the general concept.(2) How would you want it to work?(data)(3) Do you know what diseases and or ‘flaws’ you can track with what data, and how?(4) Do you think it would make appointments with patients easier and more efficient?(5) How do you think it would influence your work as a doctor?(6) How do you think it would influence public health?(7) Would you recommend your patients to use this product?

Then, research was conducted in order to find out more about the form and function of each instrument. The chal-lenge was to create smaller versions of currently existing medical instruments.

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1.( Ophthalmoscope + Camera )

Ophthalmoscopy is a test that allows a health professional to see inside the fundus of the eye and other structures using an ophthalmoscope (or funduscope). It is done as part of an eye examination and may be done as part of a routine phys-ical examination. It is crucial in determining the health of the retina, optic disc, and vitreous humor.Functionality:Provides better images of the retinal changes caused by hy-pertension, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, and papilledema to enable clinicians to make these diagnoses earlier

Concept: (without phone)

2. (Otoscope + Camera)An otoscope is a medical device which is used to look into the ears. Health care providers use otoscopes to screen for illness during regular check-ups and also to investigate ear symptoms. An otoscope potentially gives a view of the ear canal and tympanic membrane or eardrumFunctionality: Check for ear infections and condition of ear-

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3. Automotive Pressure Mapping

Simultaneously measure multiple forces applied by an automobile occupant and collect the data in real time. Tactilus® software is essentially a dashboard control panel that assimilates the pipeline of data into comprehensible and easily inter-pretable images - all on one screen at the same time.Functionality : Measure weight of a person

Using all this new information together with the feedback that we had received during the tutor meetings, new sketches were made and we got closer towards finalizing the design.

sketches

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It was then decided to divide tasks between team members. The tasks were the making of a physical and a functional prototype.The physical components are made out of MDF and provide insight into the design’s physical dimensions. The functional part consists of a web application which demonstrates how ClouDoc would be used by a doctor.Nearing the end of the process, multiple small ad-justments on the physical prototype were made in order to make it look more presentable. After brushing through some functional aspects of the design that were not yet decided on by all of us, the design was finalized.

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demo day

The final step was the preparation of our presenta-tion stand for the demo day.Apart from the prototype that was made, the stand consisted of a poster, a video and a user manual, which helped enable visitors to fully understand the functionality of our design.Regardless of the limited time faced, everything was finished on time. During the day of the presenta-tion, each team member was equipped with adequate knowledge on the overall product which gave a good impression of our work when confronted with ques-tions. We received positive feedback from visitors on our booth's setup. Overall, the presentation was a success.

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demo dayUser manual

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demo dayPitch

Introduction:Being a doctor can be a tough job.

Problem: Patients often expect their doctor to come up with a clear diagno-sis. Even though their doctor can only work with the patient’s words, and data that can only be measured right away.This can be really challenging.

Conclusion: So how could a doctor’s job be made easier, and how can diagnosis more reliable?

Solution: ClouDoc is the solution. A simple, modular kit that can be given to patients by their doctor containing measuring devices which are linked up with an app. This makes it easy and accessible for doctors to keep track of the patients health. And because the devices lack a screen, they can be smaller than usual, making it more portable.

Explanation: ClouDoc will measure basic data about your body like heart rate and blood pressure with only four devices. When you’re done measuring, the kit will synchronise your new data to your personal cloud.The doctor will always have access to this data in order to see how the patient is doing, making it easier to draw conclusions.ClouDoc, helping doctors, helping patients

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demo dayPoster

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Helping doctors, helping patients

Protective Foam

NFC - Connection

Wireless Charging

ClouDoc, a simple kit that can be given to patients by their doctor to make it easy and accessible for the patients to keep track of their health.

Modular

Reminders

Synchronized

Visual Data Representation

72 BPM 37 °C

Mathias Verheijden | Barten Verschoor | Venggkadesh Sathevil | Loïs Verhoef | Jasmijn Verhoef

reflectIonBarten

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I would like to start by saying how valuable I have found this course to be. As it has provided me with a vast amount of knowledge about not only the design process in general, but also many of the techniques that could be used in the process.

As mentioned in my previous reflection, I had never really liked working in groups, as one is never in full control of the eventual outcome. Nevertheless, for this project, I have started to learn letting go and trusting my team members to perform well at whatever they do. This provid-ed me with a piece of mind and helped me focus on my own tasks. I will definitely try to maintain this level of trust in my team members, while keeping in mind that it is not always possible.

One thing that stood out to me in the design process, and specifically the ideation, was the importance of not only going deep, but going wide as well. I normally tend to stick to a certain idea once I realize that it has potential. However, this might leave certain stones unturned. This can be a shame, as exploring a wider range of ideas might result in some very valuable insights, which otherwise would not have been found. I will try to widen my view when working on future projects.

During this course, I constantly felt an attraction to the tasks that spoke to me the most. These were often tasks involving abilities that I am good at, or want to get good at.Looking back, I realize that perhaps I should have stepped out of my comfort zone a bit more and try some things that did not immediately attract me. This might eventually make me more of a well rounded designer.

When we met as a team for the first time. I imme-diately noticed the fact that every one of us was exceptionally driven to perform well and come up with a proper first design. This assured me that I had been put in the right team and it gave me motivation to do well.

Immediately when starting our initial research and coming up with an argumentation for every design case, I realized that dividing individual tasks was not always the most effective path.As we did not structure our argumentation in a similar way, a lot of rewriting had to be done when we came together. This could have gone a lot more efficient if we had made clearer agree-ments beforehand.

When working together in a group however, we very well managed to apply each other’s strong points and spark each other’s imaginations. Apart from it being effective and valuable, it was great fun as well.

Nevertheless, there were some small issues. Lois and Venggkadesh had the tendency to come late to every get-together of the team. Furthermore, the fact that Venggkadesh did not attend the lec-tures was worrisome for the rest of the team. But after realizing that he worked well and studied the slides at home, we were reassured that it had no major consequences on our work.

All in all, these small issues mentioned above did not really matter in the scope of things, as we managed to create something nice and well thought of in a rather limited amount of time.

Individual reflection Group reflection

reflectIonVenggkadesh

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After two months working with group50 on our project, it was overall deemed a great success. Participating in this course for the first time has definitely implanted my mind with a lot of valuable knowledge in which I can apply to for my future courses.

One of which is learning to work with a larger group. Having dealt with communication issues with groups in my previous course left me to think working in a larger group might prompt this is-sue. However, this was not the case as every group member handled their own specific tasks profes-sionally and were open to adapting new ideas. As a result, this ushered in a smooth working environ-ment.

Secondly, learning different methods in the design process to generate ideas helped expand my critical thinking skills. Using mind mapping it was possible for us to generate many ideas. Although, churning multiple ideas into realistic concepts was not as easy, but it was made possible with the use of Pierre Lévy’s system which eventually helped us to identify the best possible options to nominate.

Thirdly, dealing with a shortage in time would be the biggest obstacle that our group had to face. Dividing tasks equally and good communication made it possible for the group to produce deliver-ables on time. Also, what made each task efficient was by segregating tasks according to each per-son’s best capably in each task.

Lastly, I realized in industrial design not only a designer will gain valuable insights from different scopes but this field unlocks a wide spectrum of career options. In conclusion, this course gave me more motivation towards being an industrial de-signer to help provide a positive impact on people’s lives and benefit society with innovate ideas.

Since the start to the end of the project the group was well organized in dividing tasks towards each member. This propelled consistency in the quality of our work. Contributions from every member played a vital part in developing the final concept.

During the initial and middle stages of our design process, each member had to do a substantial amount of research. My research contributions during the initial stage of the assignment were the possibilities of developing ideas in smart mobility. Later on in the assignment when a concept was established, each member had to come up with possible functions for the concept with sketches and research.

My main role was to correct the grammar and rephrase sentences in our group’s report with the help of Barten. Having prior knowledge on writing technical reports, it was manageable for me to en-sure the content of the report is up to standards. In addition, I helped in formatting the midterm report which acts as a possible guide on how the outlook of the final report should be.

Moreover, creating the prototype was also part of my main task alongside Barten. The prototypes were made in the Vertigo building’s workshop as they have the available machines and tools to help sculpt the forms of our product. Me and Barten would invest several hours in the workshop to en-sure the prototype looks and feels presentable.

It was a great experience getting to handle a tough project with new people. Even though, there were some miscommunication nearing the end of the project everything subsided in a positive note. I am proud of my group members for contributing their efforts into making this assignment a success and I look forward towards working with them in future projects.

Individual reflection Group reflection

reflectIonJasmijn

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I feel like I learnt a lot from this course. I obvious-ly learnt a lot of how the design process works, but also some deeper things. To start; we had a few people that already had many experiences with certain things as well. At first, this made me a bit unsure, because I didn’t really have a certain brilliant skill but later on I decided to accept that I didn’t had all the skills yet, and that this was a good opportunity to learn skills from others.

For example I went to Vertigo with two group-mates to work on the prototype and I got to learn how to use several machines.

Besides I worked on the poster with a team mem-ber who knew a lot about InDesign, so we did de-sign the poster together, and meanwhile, I could look how to use the program. This gave me the ability to make the user manual in InDesign. And design the report. I had a lot fun by doing this, so I’m happy to have this competence now.

I feel like I really developed myself during the course and learned a lot. Thus I learned how to look at things differently. It is not a shame if you aren’t able to make/use something at first, you can learn from your groupmates as well, and maybe in the future teach the learned skills to future team members.

I learned some things about working in a group as well. I had to get used to the idea that you have to give things out of hands. I realized it won’t be fully your project with all your ideas, but the project of the group. This means that there will be some things in the project that you don’t fully agree on. As I can be a bit of a perfectionist sometimes, it was a challenge for me to accept this. But I think I could use this gained knowledge in future projects.

I was lucky to come in a group with people that where extremely motivated at making a good concept, just like me. This was very useful of course, because everyone put a lot of effort in the project. On the other hand this sometimes could get a bit competing. Everyone wanted his/her idea in the concept, which caused lost time on only discussing what we wanted. I guess that this is part of working in a group. As I said be-fore, nobody will eventually fully agree with every aspect of the design.

I also noticed the importance to do things to-gether and being with the five of us as much as possible. Because in the whole process you will discover things that you could use in the de-sign. It often happened that people couldn’t be there, which caused misunderstandings about the things we discussed in the time they weren’t there. Eventually we obviously had to split up the tasks, but this was for the preparations for the demo day, when almost all the decisions where already made.

I think my role in the group was that I often had the overview about what had to be done by when. I am a person that likes structure and a good planning, and I remarked that this was a good skill to have in a group. You certainly have to make clear agreements on what had to be done by who. So this is something I will try to keep doing in the next projects.All things considered, I learnt a lot from this course that I can certainly use in next projects as well.

Individual reflection Group reflection

reflectIonMathias

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Looking back at the past eight weeks, I feel like I have undergone some important developments as a designer. From this course, I have not only learned several design techniques, but it has also helped me developing important professional skills like working in groups, pitching and writing reports. Apart from that I gained some valuable experience regarding the overall design process.

Personally, I think the case selection and, in particular, the ideation are the most valuable learning experiences for me. I noticed that I tend to focus too much on the first idea I have, which leads to some sort of tunnel vision. Because of this, I don’t look at all the possibilities there are. The ideation process taught me that it is very important to go wide before going deep.

During the course, I had the tendency to do the things I’m already good at. I edited both videos, designed the poster and designed the web-app for example. For future projects, I have to step out of my comfort zone and try new things as well. If I don’t, I will only get better at what I’m al-ready good at. Stepping out of my comfort zone will broaden my knowledge and will eventually make me a better, more skilled designer.

One more important thing to point out is that I tend to do too much work by myself. I noticed that, while doing a project, I like to be in control of as much things as possible. This simply takes more time than there is available, so I have to learn to trust other group members to do their work as they should.Having finished my first design project, I know what I have to keep in mind for future projects.

My first impressions of the group were very good. Everyone was very motivated and everyone wanted to perform well. This gave me the feeling that we could get the job done.

Right after the first meeting, we immediately divided tasks so we could quickly start working on the project. I noticed that, when combining our work, our different styles of writing and use of fonts really stood out. So for the next time, agreements on practical things like these should be made before starting the project.

Overall, the communication between the group members was good. When tasks were divided, everyone did their job without problems or de-lays. However, there were some issues of course. First of all, Loïs and Venggadesh were often late for our meetings, which became pretty annoying as it kept happening.

One problem really stood out to me through-out the project. Namely that Barten, Vengg-kadesh, Jasmijn and me often agreed on almost everything, while Loïs very often had a different opinion. Now while it’s good to have a criti-cal attitude sometimes, in this case, it almost seemed as if she fundamentally disagreed with everything.

In the beginning of the project, we tried to take everyone’s opinion into account for everything we decided. And while I think that is a good thing, I have experienced that this can cause stress and tension within a group. And sometimes there just simply is not enough time. So for future projects, I think it is important to sometimes go for the overall opinion of the group more often instead of trying to include everyone’s individual opinion.

Individual reflection Group reflection

reflectIonLoïs

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From Idea to Design opened my eyes for numer-ous things. It showed me how working in a group can ac-tually be a positive thing, how you have to stay open for all possibilities, even if you have already chosen an idea, and how implementing profes-sionals and users in the beginning of your design process can make you see your product in an entirely new way.

At some point in the process I had to let go of an idea on how our product should be used. We came to a compromise that first felt like a loss, but the deeper we worked on the product, the more it felt like a win. This showed me the im-portance of a little rivalry and disagreement in a group, this will keep the bar high, and end up being beneficial for the end product.

The course also made me look at user friendli-ness. By making a user manual, I was forced to try the product over and over again, resulting in a better understanding of how it should actually look like to make it easier to use. This was out of my comfort zone, but a really good experience and something I will continue doing to improve the usability. What also helped a lot with user friendliness was implementing professionals and users in the early stages. Talking with the doctor opened my eyes on how we can actually make jobs easier with little adjustments, this gave me the idea to talk to professionals even before coming up with an idea.

All that being said, everything in this course, from techniques we got taught up to the things the group and I came up with ourselves has given me many positive and negative insights that I will all implement in following projects.

Before this course, I didn’t have a positive experi-ence working with a group, but as soon as I met everyone, I knew that we would all work hard to make something really good.This doesn’t mean we didn’t have any complica-tions, we often had to compromise our ideas and let go of things, but we were a well-oiled team in general

I mostly contributed via ideas and research. The initial idea of ClouDoc as well as the idea to ask users and doctors for input were mine. Unfortu-nately, I wasn’t able to do everything I wanted to, or be on time on all meetings because I was ill a lot. Because of this I feel like I let down my team.

In the end I feel like, even though I was sick, we all put in around the same amount of work. I made up for not being able to do a lot of physical things by thinking about how the product should work, look like, how it should be put on the mar-ket, talking to the doctor, etc.

The pitch was a real learning experience. Normal-ly, giving a presentation is a very easy thing for me. This time was different, I never had to actu-ally memorize a pitch before, because I always improvised my presentations by perfectly know-ing how everything works. But this time I blocked and couldn’t pitch. I didn’t know this could even happen before. I knew I could stress before a presentation, but as soon as I start talking that would go away. Apparently, that doesn’t work with pitches. To solve this, I am planning on doing as many pitches as possible to be able to give a perfect pitch, because I never want anything simi-lar to happen again.

Individual reflection Group reflection