Idea generation part 2

Pei Jet Teh
Nov 1 · 4 min read

HMWs

How might we clean dog’s waste without bending down?

How might we easily and safely bring multiple dogs around?

Set Up

Participants:

  1. Heavyn
  • African American
  • Junior
  • Major: German

2. Ky

  • Asian (Vietnamese)
  • Sophomore
  • Major: Child Psychology

3. Frank

  • Asian (Chinese)
  • Senior
  • Major: Computer Science

4. Olivia

  • American
  • Senior
  • Major: Architecture

The overall brainstorming session was pumped up. I did the brainstorming session at Bio Medical Library (Room 222). The session was 55 minutes. We played two warm up games. Each game took 5 minutes. We spent 15 minutes on brain storming for the more general prompt related to dog leash. Then, we spent 20 minutes on the two “how might we statements” which I crafted. Lastly, we spent 10 minutes to do sorting and multi-volting. I bought some index cards, tapes, and colorful markers for the brainstorming session.

Warm-up games:

  1. We played a warm-up game which I developed.
  2. We played “Look at me”.

Warm Up

Original warm-up activity

  • Name: “What’s in your head?”
  • The person who asks the question will touch his/her head with two hands, point at somebody, and say “what’s in your head?”. The person who answers has to think of an object and use three words to describe the object. Based on imagination, the person who asked then needs to act like they are/ they are using the object.

Brainstorm Session

Total number of ideas: 62

IPM of the session: 0.35 ipm (62 divide by 5, divide by 35 minutes)

The major categories of ideas:

  • Aesthetic/ Appearance
  • Ways to pick up dog waste
  • Ways to vanish dog waste
  • Makes sound
  • Interactive.
After sorting and voting

Voting criteria:

  • Creative
  • Valuable

Images of top 10 ideas:

Left: Ky; Right: Frank
Left: Olivia; Right: Ky
Left: Olivia; Right: Frank, Heavyn, Pei Jet
Left: Ky & Heavyn; Right: Heavyn

Top 10 Ideas

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