Our final interview at this stage of our design process was with Dylan Vitone, father…
An overview of interviews with Peter Scupelli and Joseph Lyons
Joseph has a son aged 4 and a 3 year old daughter. When asked about their transition from play to the…
Following our intensive brainstorming session, we took a step back to ask ourselves how our many ideas might fit with the insights we’d culled from initial research. While we felt good about the general direction, we thought more clearly…
Beyond simply including parents in their child’s bedtime routine, we began to think about how technology might help both parents and their children to build healthy routines. Could a tool send…
As a way to begin our research, we familiarized ourselves with John Zimmerman’s work on the Reverse Alarm Clock, a tool designed to make the parents feel like better parents — by providing a moment for parenting (a bedtime ritual of setting the clock) as…
Insights from a discussion with John on the ‘Reverse alarm clock’ and more….
Following our presentation to the Philips team, and their feedback on our concepts, we moved into a final round of brainstorming. We wanted to push ourselves to consider more novel interactions, incorporate tangible objects…
With three further refined storyboards in hand (digital artboard, interactive path, interactive object), we conducted another set of interviews, testing for usability, usefulness, and comfort level with our three concepts.
Myriad solutions exist to help people sleep better. From medication to breathing devices, self help books to apps, hypnosis to psychological counseling — these solutions serve a range of functions from enhancing quality of sleep to treating medical conditions to…
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