Final report

We are well underway with the writing of the final report. 3 of our 5 reports are edited and written exactly how we want it. Quite some things have changed in the original reports, so they are better written and have a lot better content fit for the design changes we have made.
We are looking forward to the presentation and the exam, as we really believe in this product.

Assignment

The assignment have been handed in, and we are very satisfied with how this project is coming along. These next couple of weeks, we will be working on making an even better product / interface on the web while working on the next two assignments.

If we can get the uploading of tests and security to work, we might even think this is a sellable product in the future.

An update

We have been working hard on our product and interface, which is why we haven't updated our blog in a long time. Sorry for that, but on the other hand, we are far into the designing phase, where both the interface and the physical product has come a long way.

Flash is working in such a way, that we are able to upload our exercise onto our MySQL database, and then up to the web page as a little graph and numbers. The design is almost finished, and is starting to look very nice and easy to navigate through. We have given the design lots of thoughts, and have been going through several design changes, including how the menues are shown, when they are shown and the differences between the Patient and Doctor login.

The doctor login is not yet designed (as we have been focused on the patient part). Suppose to be a little different when you login (such as not needing a CPR-number, and having patients at the side menu, instead of graphs)

The website is still http://cs.au.dk/~spjer
We can't wait to show it off Friday at 9:20 AM !

The design has begun

We have been working on getting the design done for the web based part of the project. On top of that, we are working on getting the camera working where it takes a picture in good quality and puts it up on a server.

It is a bit hard doing the tracking part without a laser or a camera (the camera should be handed out today), and the laser has been ordered.

We have put the start of our design up on the AU website, which can be seen below
http://cs.au.dk/~jaykob/pdp

Prototype

Plan for today

• Buying a laser
• Starting on a flash project
• Generally start building our prototype

Our assignment 3 got accepted, so we will now start our prototype both physical and technical

Exercise - 1/4-2012

Positive pictures

So the main theme here is simplicity. We want the patients to be able to do the exercise in comfortable surrounding and we want the produkt to be easily compressed, so that it can sit on a table, without being intrusive, when not in use. At the same time we hope that the product will bring the patients closer to their doctors/chiropractors.

Negative pictures

So here we want to express that we don't want any clutter in our product. It must not be annoying to use and it cannot cause the patients any distress.

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)