brainstorm
Timeline:
Weds: Contacting people for group brainstorming and schedule.
Thur: Buying post-it, sharpies etc.
Fri: Making the new game, generating Ideas
Sat-Sun: Brainstorming group, voting and sorting
Mon-Weds: Organizing ideas and creating the blog post.
Outline
My General Ideas:
Before the group brainstorming session, I have prepared several ideas with sketches. These sketches were shown as example to the group session of how to do brainstorming.
Some of these sketches were done in class on Tuesday
New Warm-Up Game
DJ Tommy!!!
“DJ Tom-my” is a reaction game, which someone start with “D” and pointing someone, then that person needs to point to someone else and say “J”, and “Tom”. At the end, the person got pointed with “-my” has to do the action.
The action is to pretend you are the DJ, and the two persons next to the DJ have to start dancing. After the action, the DJ keep going pointing the next person until someone forget to react.
Session Organization
People in the group session:
Mason: a swimming coach, he has helped a person with disability to swim and exercise.
Tina: a PhD candidate in Law school of UMN, she has worked as a part time in rehabilitation center in China.
Paul: Mechanical Engineering PhD, he likes to play different type of sport and goes to the gym a 3–4 times weekly.
Fan: International student from China, professional gamer.
Chieh-Hsin: Math PhD students from Taiwan, he likes to play music and writing new songs.
Kai: Civil Engineering undergraduate, who has a brother with disability in Singapore and used to be the person who took car of him.
I started with the game “DJ Tom-my”
Then, I began to talk about the instruction of brainstorming to the group, such as a idea per page, no judgement, label the titles with sketches of each ideas, etc.
Sorting and Voting
after 30 minutes of brainstorming, we put all the ideas on the floor and start to review and sorting them.
We discuss what categories they are mostly are, and at the end we sort them into four categories, which are Innovated Activities, Exercise Improvement, Daily Life Related and Entertainment.
Finally, we discussed as a group and vote for the 10 best ideas. We did not limit vote for each person. Instead, each person tell everyone which idea they liked the most and gave a reason. If most people agree with that person, the idea would be put in the list of 10 best ideas. The group had different standards of best ideas. Sometime, they just thought it was interesting and fun, so they voted it to be the best idea.
Top Ideas
Here are the 10 best ideas re-sketched, credits are given below each image.
