Week 9

We start the week by preparing some questions for an interview with someone who was employed at the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. These questions are mainly focused on how exhibits designed for children can still be age-agnostic, and how older visitors and visitors with varying levels of physical and cognitive abilities are able to engage with the same exhibits.

After narrowing down our concepts to focus on a virtual interface where patients can provide emotional support to one another by interacting with a physical device, we created a Pugh chart to evaluate some of the different features and directions we could take it in against one another. This included variations of the medium in which the interaction and interface would exist, and different haptics that the physical device could employ.

After a discussion about how the system would operate as a whole, some questions arose about specific interactions, the extent of communication, the transition from the waiting room to exam room, and which elements translate from physical to digital and which go vice versa.

We attempted to address these questions through a user flow diagram that explains the sequence of events in both the physical world as well as the digital interface.

We also began to think through the system through lenses of identification, interaction, communication, and patient journey.

Based on the elements of the system that began to become more defined, we were able to begin making decisions about specific inputs and outputs which helped to shape some preliminary form ideas.