Week 15 aka ETC Festival Week aka the last week of development before finals. After what happened during softs, the team really got to work to make the most of the last few days we had.
Our programmers have gotten our website for the most part functional. We were able to showcase it at this week’s festival with more success then what we had expected. While the project isn’t as flashy, fun, and/or interactive as other projects, people were drawn to the real world applications. Professionals, parents, kids, and senior citizens that visited were all impressed and wanted to see the app become a reality. We even got into contact with a visitor from the TechShop that was interested in helping the project.
Taking the advice of a faculty member on approaching a senior citizen apt building in the city for playtests, we were able to plan one for Friday. This would happen after our playtest with the Osher Learning Institute. We had sent both organizations sign-up sheets and waited for playtesters to put their name down. Despite getting lots of interest from the people we talked to during the process of setting these up, no one signed up.
While it was disappointing that we got no playtesters, this doesn’t really affect the design or implementation at the current time. Any significant changes to better the app at this point needs to be made based on observations of actual patients using it. The faculty members (who were also senior citizens) that playtested for us were healthy individuals. The ability to navigate and understand the content could be affected from common ailments end-stage heart failure patients experience: decreased mobility, difficulty breathing, etc. Our clients are still interested in working with the ETC and ourselves for the remainder of the research beyond the semester. Once these playtests happen, we can aid them in the right direction.
The remainder of the development for the app now consists of fixing any bugs that are still present. These should (hopefully) be fixed by the time our finals presentation rolls around.
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