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EarthBuoy – keeping you afloat.

Posted 06/20/18 by webmaster and filed under:

EarthBuoy – keeping you afloat.

Entry for the Architects without Borders – Ready to Rumble: Earthquake Awareness competition, which was featured in Occidental Park during the 2016 Seattle Design Festival. The competition challenged teams to propose life-saving tools, methods, systems, or products at any scale in order to provide Seattlites greater awareness to the seismic activity of the region and to better prepare them in the event of the “big one.”

Proof of Concept

Proof of Concept

Scaventure

Posted 08/31/15 by webmaster and filed under:

Scaventure

Scaventure was a group project that tasked us with designing, programming, testing and presenting a mobile friendly web app that used multiple features of web 3.0. We chose to use local storage, Geo Location,and forms.

Wireframes

Wireframes

Use Case

Use Case

Voithos

Posted 08/30/15 by webmaster and filed under:

Voithos (Greek for “Helper”)

A school project to develop an application with a watch interface for users and a website interface for medical staff.

Smart Watch Wireframe

Smart Watch Wireframe

Tablet Wireframes

Tablet Wireframes

Task Flows

Task Flows

Feature Requirements

Implied Watch Abilities

  1. Bluetooth WiFi Connectivity
  2. Cameras front facing and back
  3. Voice Control – “OK, Voithos” (microphone)
  4. Built in speaker
  5. Ability to share stats and progress

Watch Requirements

  1. User uses Heart Rate Monitor continuous and automatic tracking of heart rate and reporting of heart rate range (VO2, Anaerobic, Aerobic, Fat Burn, and Maintenance)
  2. User uses Blood Pressure/ Stress Monitor that periodically and automatic tracking of blood pressure with notifications of blood pressure levels. Offering warning notifications of high blood pressure.
  3. User uses Blood Sugar monitor that continuous and automatic tracking of blood sugar with notifications of low and high levels. Offering suggestion notifications of times for a snack
  4. User uses GPS – continuous and automatic tracking of routes and distances of workout and paths taken. Ability to check in on popular social media accounts
  5. **Activity Monitor – continuous and automatic tracking of sleep, steps, distances, altitude, calories burned, active minutes
  6. User uses Calorie Log to enter and find food items via voice search or scanning of food item’s barcode with camera
  7. User uses BMI Checker to perform daily scan of Body Mass Index – reporting of percent body fat by running a small current through the surface of the skin that will show progress to goal or healthy percentage
  8. User can receive alerts for and access messages and email on mobile devices
  9. User has ability to video chat via the smartwatch with friends and medical personnels with forward facing camera
  10. User has ability to take pictures and share via the back camera
  11. Ability to view friends nearby to meet up for a healthy meal or workout with on a map
  12. Notification when paired mobile device is more than set distance away

User Site Requirements

  1. Customizable Dashboard showing current status of major categories, progress to goals, friends on Voithos
  2. Health – shows infographics of current and historical information with overlays of what is best and healthy to allow user to ascertain if they are doing good or need to do better. A grade will be shown to help simplify the information
  3. Fitness – shows infographics of historical data with predicted trend line of activity and allows user analyze how they are progressing
  4. Profile Page – where you can set what you share with the world, friends and medical personnels
  5. Map View shows a map of with fitness information overlay to analyze times, distances, and calories each route took
  6. Friends Stats page allows you see where you rank amongst friends and what their progress is
  7. Message center where you can send and receive message from friends and medical professionals
  8. Workout Tips page offers tips on fitness based on goals and current stats
  9. Scheduler allowing you to set up a workout routine and schedule appointments with medical personnel, will sync with other calendars and devices
  10. Goal Setter allows user to input starting information and is given recommended goals and is allowed to enter planned goals for time period

Medical Site Requirements

  1. Customizable dashboard showing chosen infographics about clients and messages and appointments
  2. Sortable listing of all patients with short descriptions and grades
  3. Patient Red List – Ability to set parameters per patient or all patients to alert medical personnel and staff of changes or trends in activity or health
  4. A patient page giving full work-up on patient – to show prescriptions, activities, last office visit, next planned visit, infographics on activity and health, contact history with office, insurance info
  5. Message center to allow contact between patient and medical personnel, and medical personnel and medical personnel
  6. Video Chat / Live chat – to offer a personal touch to the patient. allowing two way real time communication between patient and medical personnel, and medical personnel and medical personnel
  7. Appointment Scheduler – ability to see overview of day, week, and month of appointments and shows patients that currently not schedule but are due or missed an appointment to message
  8. Admin Access – allows doctors office to have one account by can allow more than certified practitioner for the office to respond to a patient. (Typical office has 2 doctors 3 register nurses and 4 nurses and staff)
  9. Profile Pages for doctors office with subpages for each professional listing background, education, speciality and experience
  10. Medical personnel has the ability to send recommendations, congratulations, critiques and acknowledgments of activities and meals to patients.

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Usability Test protocol

Introduction

Voithos is a smartwatch that includes a multitude of features a couple of the common ones are fitness tracker and sleep tracker. The watch has 2 companion web sites, one for the watch user and one for medical personnel who can view summaries of live and historical data tracked by the watch. The site designs for the user and the medical community are very different, because of their different purposes. Once users matching the user group criteria are found, they will participate in usability testing. Data gathered from this process will be used to update, modify or confirm design features and functionality on the website component of the Voithos.

Goals & Objectives

The goal of this testing is to understand how the user group interacts with the current design and interface of the smartwatch user website.

Materials

  • Participants
  • Staff (Moderator and Observers)
  • Sign-In Form
  • Consent Form
  • Computers with internet access
  • Morae Software
  • Script
  • Prizes (4) $50 (4) $100 (4)$200

User Groups

The user group of Voithos will meet the following criteria

  • 50 women and 50 men
  • Ages 25 to 45
  • Currently have and use a smartphone
  • Tech savvy individuals
  • Fitness Conscious
  • Salary range between $40K – $100K
    • (25) 40-55K
    • (25) 56-70K
    • (25) 71-85K
    • (25)86-100K
  • College Educated

Interview Script & Questions

Script

Good evening everyone, I am ________________________ ! How is everyone doing this evening?

// Pause for Comments //

I would like to begin by thanking everyone, for taking the time to meet with us. As you all know, we are here to talk about Voithos. Voithos is a smartwatch that we think will change the way people will interact with technology and their medical provider. To help us design the best website, my associates and I will be observing, how you work your way through the site to understand how YOU would use it. So, we can determine what is effective and what isn’t.

However, before we begin, we will have to get the legal things out of the way. Did everyone sign in and get a number on their way in? If you didn’t get a number, please get one now, because we will be having a drawing for prizes at the end of the meeting. I wish I could participate, but oh well… We have some really nice prizes this evening.

Is everyone returned?

// Pause… Wait a sec for comments… //

OK, to get started. I will assign a associate to each one of you. When I call your name please come down and meet your observer .

// Call every third name on Sign-In List calling names //

// User Name )  your observer will be ( Associate’s Names //  

// User and Associate’s go to workstation //

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PERFORM TESTING

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// Walk around and confirm all testing is done. //

Thanks, everybody. After seeing the site first hand, does anyone have any questions?

// Pause and look around. Wait a sec for any responses… //

Alrighty, then… Lets give away some PRIZES! I am going to call out the two smaller gift cards and then I am going to call out the Grand prize winner. HERE… WE… GO…

// Pull Number out of Hat and Call it //

CONGRATULATIONS!!! ( Number ) you won a $50 gift card

// Pull Number out of Hat and Call it //

CONGRATULATIONS!!! ( Number ) you won a $100 gift card

// Pull Number out of Hat and Call it //

Now for the Grand Prize! CONGRATULATIONS!!! ( Number ) you won a $200 gift card.

I would like to thank you all for helping us tonight by testing our site. If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact us, the information is on your copy of the consent form. Good night everyone, and thank you again!

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// TESTING //

//Give hints if the user starts to get agitated and reassure them there are no right answers and the site is still in development and they are helping us.

Hello USER NAME! I am YOUR NAME, it is nice to meet you.

USER NAME, you are looking at the dashboard the first page you would see when you get to the Voithos website. For this test, pretend this information is about you. Now, I will need for you to complete the following tasks.Do you have any questions?

Dashboard

  1. How would you add another tile to the dashboard?
  2. How would you resize a tile on the dashboard?
  3. How would you remove a tile from the dashboard?
  4. How would you set the dashboard back to the defaults?
  5. Based on the tiles, would you be on track to meet your goal?
  6. Where would you go to check what your goal is?
  7. Where would go to manage devices?

Health

  1. Where would you go to see your blood pressure?
  2. What is your blood pressure?
  3. Based on the graphic, how well are you doing with your blood pressure?
  4. Where would you go to see your blood sugar?
  5. What is your blood sugar?
  6. Based on the graphic, how well are you doing with your blood sugar?
  7. Where would you go to change
  8. Where would you go to see your BMI?
  9. What is your BMI?
  10. Based on the graphic, is your BMI within the normal range?
  11. Where would you go to see how many calories you had for the day so far?
  12. Where would you input another meal?

Fitness

  1. Where would you go to see your how many times your workouts have been in the fat burn zone?
  2. What is your average workout time?
  3. Based on the graphic, how many times this month have worked out?\
  4. What is your average steps per day?
  5. What is your activity grade?
  6. How many steps did you take last month?

Profile Page

  1. How would you add a photo to your profile?
  2. how would you remove the current doctor’s office from seeing your information?
  3. How would you add a new doctor’s office?
  4. How would you message your doctors office?
  5. How would you open a video chat?
  6. How would you set all your information on profile to public or private?
  7. How would set your security setting to allow only friends to see profile?

Map

  1. Where would you go to see past running routes?
  2. How many routes are listed on the site?
  3. Which of the routes was the longest distance?
  4. Which of the routes burned the most calories?
  5. Which of the routes was the shortest time?
  6. Which route is ranked the best?

Friends

  1. How would you find your friends on Voithos?
  2. How would you open a video chat with them?
  3. How would you see how your friends are doing?
  4. How would you compare your stats with a friends’ stats”?
  5. Which of your friends highest ranking?
  6. How is top ranked friend ranked higher?
  7. Is it possible to catch up with person ranked above you?

Message Center

  1. Where would you go to view messages?
  2. How many messages do you have?
  3. How many messages are from medical personnel?
  4. Where would you go to modify notifications?

Workouts

  1. Where would you go to add a workout routine?
  2. What workouts are recommended to you?
  3. Why were these workouts recommended to you?
  4. How would you create a custom workout?

Schedule

  1. How would you add a workout?
  2. Does your work out today work with your schedule?
  3. Where would you see if you have a doctors appointment?
  4. Set an alert for your workouts.

Goals

  1. Where would you go to input your initial stats?
  2. Where would you go to enter your fitness goals?
  3. Are you able to enter another goal?
  4. To meet your goal, what should your caloric intake be for the day?
  5. When does it say you will meet your goal based on current trend of meals?
  6. What is the recommended goal for you?

 

SOUTHWEST GEORGIA CHILDREN’S ALLIANCE INC

Posted 08/30/15 by webmaster and filed under:

Southwest Georgia Children’s Alliance Inc

The SOWEGA Online Resource Directory project was a organized by the UGA Archway Partnership, which links on-campus resources with community needs. Archway worked with the Master of Internet Program & Southwest Georgia (SOWEGA) Children’s Alliance Inc to develop the initial criteria of the project. After initial scope was created, our team of 5 took over all communication with the client and project. We worked with the stakeholders to determine the business needs, and develop project goals and scope. and developed uses cases.

The project goal was to create “an interactive online interface for end-users to find community resources to meet their self-identified needs in Sumter County”

The scope of the project:

  1. Searchable front-end web user interface for community resources
  2. MySQL database backend to hold resource data
  3. Contact form to contact SOWEGA Children’s Alliance, Inc.
  4. Geolocation of resources
  5. Website analytics
  6. Operations & Maintenance Manual

At the end of the project, we went beyond our scope and redesigned the Southwest Georgia Children’s Alliance Inc entire website, logo and created an online resource directory and user manual.

Link to Final Presentation

Final Site

Final Site

Wireframes

Wireframes

Database Design

Database Design