A lot happened

Diagram used in assignment 2

A lot has happened since the last blog

• Assignment 2 was handed in last wednesday
• A lot of realisations happened, which can be seen in assignment 2 and in later blogs

 Plan for today (30th of April)

• Start assignment 3

Canvas + assignment

Today, we have decided to focus on making business model canvas from different point of views, to see where our product comes into place, who is gonna use it and what values it's gonna have.

Besides that, we will start on the assignment that is to be handed in this thursday 26th of April.

Canvas from our POV:

Canvas from the chiropractors POV:

19/4 + 20/4 - Product Brainstorm

So, yesterday we had a brainstorm, with the purpose of discovering different products in our target group. Our target group is now completely decided, and will be:

• People who suffered whiplash after a car accident, and is showing chronic symptoms after 6 months

It has been narrowed down to this specific target group after our little chat with Lars Uhrenholt. He explained all the difficulties with acute accidents and how you can get whiplash symptoms after something other than car accidents (but not slightly the same).

Things we need to start working on monday apart from the assignment

• JPE testing with a webcam to begin with (maybe kinect later on for other exercises)
• Web interface
• The test to communicate with the net

After that, we have several more features we want to implement including where the chiropractor is able to upload his own exercises, and have the patient do them at home via a kinect.
This will motivate the patient, seeing as he/she can see a graph of how it is going, while the chiropractor is able to watch and improve the exercises accordingly, withouth having to ask where and how it hurts and if they even do the exercises.

Interview and brainstorm time

Plan for today

1. Refine our interview with Lars Uhrenholt
2. Set up some plans on how to brainstorm ideas
3. Out we go

Brainstorm about general Whiplash products (where to focus)

The interview
The interview went very well. He seemed very interested in how our project would evolve, where he came up with several ideas to products we could make. He even volunteered to test our product, when we make one, on his clients to see if it works in the real world.
We got so much out of it, and are now even more eager to make a good product, which can opbtain success in the real world.

Tomorrow it is brainstorm time, and research time. Research will be based on the existing products Lars Uhrenholt mentioned.

Getting Ready

Yesterday we formed a survey, aimed at people suffering from whiplash, so today we're waiting for replies.
But we're also forming questions for the interview with Lars Uhrenholt tomorrow, which will take place at 14:00.
Other than that we will probably link to the survey on a couple of whiplash community sites.

Assignment time

Plan for today

1. Write the assignment

The assignment has been written, where we have realised a bit more about our topic at hand.
We are quite pleased about it. The project is coming along nicely and are getting more interesting the more we get into whiplash and the people surrounded by it.

The waiting game

Plan for today 

1. Wait for the clinics and our one person to respond, so we can either make an appointment or write our assignment based on the diary.

While we are waiting for the mails to rush in and calls to flow, we have written on the assignment. Part a is gonna be finished today, while we highly anticipate the whiplash person to contact us with a diary of her day so we can comment on that in the assignment aswell.

Lars Uhrenholt has answered and is ready to meet up with us this Wednesday at 14:00. On top of that, our person with whiplash has sent us a little text about how every day things can stress her and give her neck pain. We will include this in the assignment, and then recieve a diary of her life soon.

Visiting day

Plan for today

1. Write an e-mail to a person with Whiplash whom we got contact with
2. Gonna go out and visit some clinics so we can get some more insight
3. Still gonna try and get in contact with Lars Uhrenholt (Doesn't take our calls :( ) 

Visited two clinics, where we agree for them to call us thursday to see if we could figure out an appointment. We e-mailed someone with Whiplash aswell, and hope for her to answer back very soon.

Zooming in on a subject

Plan for today

1. Get scheduled appointments with relevant companies/people
2. Zoom in on a subject (Mindmaps)
3. BREAK
4. Start on the written assigment

Whiplash and Dementia are taken care of with mails, and appointments should be incoming as soon as they see the mails. The back center has yet to be heard from and we might call them later today.

Mindmaps
Whiplash
 

















Back pain

Dementia
After further discussion while we were making the mind maps, dementia has been taken off the table. We couldn't really come up with any good ways to make it work, while back pain and whiplash would be a lot more interesting to work with.

Further plan
We have decided to talk to the people associated with back pain, and whiplash before narrowing down to one topic. We are then gonna have different subjects within that as seen on the mindmaps.

We will now write part a in the handed assignment and then call it a day.

Tuesday 3/4 2012

Plan for today

1. Choose the subject
2. Brainstorm
3. Target group / brainstorm
4. Find relevant companies
5. Make appointments

Brainstorm 1

People to contact

• Lars Uhrenholt, 28909822, www.whiplashforskning.dk
• Dementia, 86110026
• Back injuries, 86132223,www.rygcenterva.dk
• People at gym, a fitness center (in the future)