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Stand Up Summary
When the first stand up begun we had a general idea of what we wanted to create this semester which was some sort something that would help kids increase their self esteem through exercise. We wanted to encompass gamification around exercise so kids would be more invested and as result exercise more frequently. We liked the idea of having some sort of creature which they would care for and having this creature evolve and get stronger as the child exercised. We were still unsure about the form factor that this would take and how the more in depth interactions would work. We had completed a lot of research behind what increases kids self esteem and found some promising results in exercise. Different form factors were also being looked into as we felt that the prototype and the goal product may be different. One interview was conducted with a primary school teacher and some good insights were gained around rewards and incentives for children and also what kind of things they were interested in.
After talking with the tutors about our idea we have a more focused idea on what features to emphasise in our prototype. After mentioning that we wanted some sort of social features in the application we discovered that we should put a lot more emphasis on this as it would not only improve engagement but be an additional way to improve self esteem. We also decided on our form factor as being a wearable smart watch, however, we will prototype using a mobile app due to the time constraints of the project. Following this stand up our next goals are to begin the creation of the prototype as well as doing some user testing with kids so we can find out what their into and try and incorporate some of those things into our app.
Heading into the second stand up we were confident with our current development of our prototype, however, we still lacked user testing and a lot had to be done in that regard. We had a minimum viable product complete that had a monster in the middle of the screen that would evolve after a certain amount of exercise. We were also mid way through making the artwork for the game.
Coming out of this stand up we have a lot of new ideas to focus on and improve upon the work that we have done. We gathered some user interface help from the tutors and have decided to use buttons instead of scrolling, however, this is still dependent on user testing results though but now we will approach the kids with two different designs that can pick from. We are also now aiming to add an additional monster sprite between the egg and baby evolution so its more fluent and the kid will be more engaged with the monster. The final thing was just stressing the important of user testing and making sure we get on that as soon as possible. Luckily two of our members plan to interview some kids the coming weekend so we should gather some necessary data then.