Milestones Summary

1. Team Development and Project Planning

   • Assigned team roles and responsibilities for the next weeks of the project
      

2. Choose a Client, a Problem to Target, and Determine Relevant Customer Requirements

   • Chose one of two clients

   • Developed a need statement to identify who our client was, what they needed, and why they needed it:

     • Our need statement: 

     • Lauren needs a device or system to ensure her safety in dangerous situations which she may be oblivious to because she disconnects her cochlear sound processors frequently for various reasons.

   • Determined relevant customer requirements from discussions with the client

     • Chose relevant engineering specifications related to the customer requirements and metrics by which to measure how well the solution attains those criteria​

     • Created a Quality Functional Deployment (QFD) chart to determine evaluate each customer requirement against the set of engineering specifications we chose to measure
        

3. Preliminary Idea Generation

   • Brainstormed relevant target areas of our client's life that our device could target

   • Generated concept solutions, producing sketches to illustrate our ideas

   • Evaluated our concepts against our customer requirements and chose one solution to further develop
      

4. Design Review

   • Created a low-fidelity prototype of our chosen idea​

   • Presented our proposed design solution to a team of experts and documented design feedback
      

5. Design Review #2 (Not completed due to in-person classes being cancelled)

   • Create a second prototype (whether computational, electrical, software, etc.)​

   • Present revised design to a team of mentors and document design feedback

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Low Fidelity Prototype​ (Week 3)

See the Final Deliverables page for photos! Download PDF (see right) for details on our first prototype.

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Summary of Design Feedback

We originally wanted our sleep mask to transmit bluetooth signals when the client's smartphone alarm went off. Additionally, we wanted to have microphones on the mask which could recognize alarm sounds using AI algorithms and sound processing. Our mentors suggested that we look to offload the processing outside the mask since we wanted to keep our device light and portable. They brought up the idea to connect smartphones to smart smoke alarms and then to transmit those signals to the mask using Bluetooth similar to how the regular alarms would be transmitted to the mask.

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Plans for Low Fidelity Prototype #2​ (Week 4)

See the Final Deliverables page for photos! Download PDF (see right) for details on our plans for our second prototype.