Tuesday 27 October 2009

Last Wednesday I with my group went to visit another elderly people's home and as we got there were told no you cancelled... which we knew nothing about but apparantly we did. So we thought about our previous visits and looked into the conversations we'd had to realise a problem from that.
After talking to Albert, we discovered that people now in homes can't take part in hobbies they enjoy because the homes can't facilitate that so though conversation we had a problem to solve ... how can people in homes take part in their hobbies?
This was what we worked on for the rest of the week after we had an idea to design a service where elderly people could register with an organisation for hobbies or interests they had and if they wanted to take part they could book in for a day out doing their hobby at a place such as a community  hall. 
We created the idea of their being a card which held all their details and their fingerprint and the authorities were able to stay in contact with this person while they were out and track them to their location.
For our pin-up crit we presented the card design, how this works with the fingerprint and a website where people's key workers could book them in for the sessions.
A suggestion made in the crit was that there could be a better way for keeping track which I agreed with, such as a small chip that could be within the card which could be used as a tracker and will show the very location the person is. 
This is something that could be considered and carried forward with developing the project, however I felt the crit went well and I could definitely feel the benefits of this brief and writing our own one and gathering the relevant information to proceed with our subject. It was a hard one but worked out well in the end.

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