Include the following in your Week 8 journal entry:
- An illustration of your ideations, including some discussion about the merits of each.
Jayden and I produced different ideas that we could use for our Design Thinking Project. It was a brainstorming step that we discussed for solutions that could address memory loss issues .
1. Go to a doctor: After having memory loss diagnosed, the doctor will indicate a property treatment for his patient according to his memory loss damage level.
2. Watch YouTube: There are a lot of videos on YouTube suggesting hits and behavior changings that could help elderly people to improve their concentration levels and memory.
3. Get Reminders in Your Smartphone: Most of the smartphones nowadays provide a reminder/calendar function natively. Also, there are some sophisticated apps available on AppStore and Google Play that offer extra functions.
4. Use a Device that gives you Reminders: There are some wearable smart devices that provide reminders. However, none of them was designed for elderly people.
5. Write Notes: It is a very simple method to help people to remind them about simple daily tasks.
6. Get a Robot: It is a very high-tech approach that could even help elderly people to execute some tasks.
7. Eat Fish: Eating more fish is an easy way to prevent age-related memory loss because it contains omega-3 fat which is an essential structural component of our brain.
- The results of applying your weighted criteria to the ideations.
Based on the evaluation criteria provided during the weekly workshop we had to cut off some ideas that would be very hard and expensive to execute such as the robot idea. Although the simplest ideas seem very effective and affordable unfortunately those don't meet user needs. We have chosen an idea which could provide a simple interface using technology and could be with them 24/7. A wearable device meets this need.
Evaluation Criteria provided
- meet user needs
- practical, ease of use, access, effective
- simplicity vs complexity
- achievable, realistic
- cost, affordable //
- scalability
- relevance
- user requirements , privacy, quality of life
