Team 2: Luke Bratic, Sarosh Manzar, Jeffrey Qiu, Storm Sangere, Meiqi Zhao
SI 612 Winter 2024
A smart-home device that senses when chores must be done and automatically assigns and tracks them for household members.
Hudson is a smart home system with a central hub display, sensors, and AI to track and manage chore assignments among household members. It can be set up according to every household’s unique needs and syncs with members’ calendars to automatically assign chores and remind roommates when chores need to be done. With Hudson, roommates no longer have to worry about having difficult conversations about unequal workloads or lack of responsiveness - Hudson manages this for them.
<aside> 💡 Our research found that 35% of roommates on college campuses reported some sort of conflict among roommates related to incomplete chores
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It is hard for members of the same household to confront one another about missed chore assignments. This can stem from a desire to avoid conflict or hurt feelings, from uncertainty about how to approach the conversation, or from a lack of established processes for managing household tasks. Because communication is an issue, chores often also end up being distributed unequally - leaving one person to complete more chores than others. This often leads to tension and frustration among roommates - something we have experienced personally, and have also heard from our friends and family.
Our team identified opportunities for ubiquitous computing during the first milestone and brainstormed around 80 potential concepts for pervasive interaction design. Each team member came up with at least 10 research based informative studies so that we could individually use components of each idea to form an overall concept theme that could be expanded upon throughout the time of the project. Three rounds of potential problem spaces were voted upon by each team member. 3 audiences/environments were selected at the end of the voting rounds. All of the ideas essentially encompassed the use of smart-home management systems and how these design methods can assist users on a daily basis.
https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVN27N66Q=/?moveToWidget=3458764578300865881&cot=14
<aside> 💡 Using the embedded Miro board above, please click around, zoom, and read to view the sticker voting method we used to narrow our opportunities down into 3 focuses.
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Concept 1: Assigning a budget slot for shoppers and stores. ****
Concept 2: Improving productivity for remote workers and parents within a home office space.
Concept 3: Managing chores around the house ****for roommates and people who live together.
<aside> 💡 We conducted contextual inquiry for the above 3 concepts to gain some insights for our product scope.
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