Conceptual Design - RecklessPotcover/DECO3500-Project GitHub Wiki

Summary: This page contains our conceptual design details.

Overview

Based on the domain we selected, we started to discuss and find out which problem may have potential design opportunities. After we did some research and discussion, we’ve decided to focus on the solution of “the detection of the falling elderly”. Thus, we started to build up this solution and then developed the conceptual design for our prototype.

Design Details

The conceptual design of our solution aims to detect and collect data on whether and when the elderly fall. The application we developed will receive the emergency rescue request sent by the elderly, as a detection system will monitor the elder to make sure their safety. The solution we have come up with will focus on the detection device and the application. The application is made for volunteers or professional medical staff. The core of our design broadens the detection wide. It covers more area to rescue the elderly who falls as much as possible, which is the most significant difference between our solution and existing solutions. For example, to make sure we can rescue the elderly who falls at home, our application will be connected to the smart home device, such as the fingerprint unlock the door. Once the volunteer arrives, the application will receive a one-time password to get into their home and do the rescue. The volunteer can call medical staff if they can’t handle that situation or call families of the elderly. Meanwhile, this application will also offer a platform with some professional tutorials for volunteers study.

Changes from Feedback

Since our team has already had some HCI experiences and considering the feedback from the last studio, we decided to imagine some advanced designs for our application, such as multi-scene and multi-situation. So that we can pay more attention to the property of socialization of our application, besides, we thought the different user scenarios would help us better present our idea in the stand-up session. The remade application can record and monitor the volunteer’s data, such as how many elderly they have rescued and when they rescue the elderly. The application can acquire private information after the elderly call for help to improve the success of rescuing.