Timeline: 12 months
Role: Founder & UX Designer
Challenge and Goals
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Technological sedentarism, exacerbated by static postures, causes global health problems.
... - Education in coding has not yet explored with physical movement as a teaching method.
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My First Startup
The Problem: My hypothesis about the cause of MY FRUSTRATION IN CODING was…
- Need To Memorize (Complicated)
- Monotony (Boring)
- Time Sitting Down (Sedentary)
My First Startup
The Problem: My hypothesis about the cause of MY FRUSTRATION IN CODING was…
- Need To Memorize (Complicated)
- Monotony (Boring)
- Time Sitting Down (Sedentary)
Insight
After months of research, I encountered that I was not the only one feeling that way!
Muneera Spence in 2006 suggested that kinesthetic learners could represent up to 45% of the population.
Macro Keyboards
Initial Inspiration
Previous Prototypes
Inspired by Macros I explored all the posibilities for Human-Computer Interactions with Physical Products
Dance Dance Revolution
After several expert Feedback. The relation with DDR arcade game inspired the “Digital Product”
Value Proposal
How through design we can associate the study of codes with body movements?
What would happen if we turned learning to program into something fun and easy to learn?
Validation Studies
Three-month coding pilot at “Markham College” with fifteen top secondary students and expert teachers revealed several insights.
65% of Early Adopters Boost Engagement
“You have fun exercising while you learn”
“It helps you read the code because it highlights the words as you read them”
“I feel like it helps to include sports and to learn what moves to use with certain symbols”
65% of Early Adopters Boost Engagement
“You have fun exercising while you learn”
“It helps you read the code because it highlights the words as you read them”
“I feel like it helps to include sports and to learn what moves to use with certain symbols”
INSIGHT
A plugin version of the Webapp is necessary to prevent accessibility issues caused by switching between the Webapp and the CODE EDITOR.
IDE's
The most common “Code Editors” (Integrated Development Environment) are VSCode and Replit so If I wanted to continue, my product was not scalable.
Computer Vision
Using laptop cameras to Score the Moves and give instant feedback.
Example of a project that came up during my research: Choreographic Interface by Harvard Researcher MDes Lins Derry
Dispersion Graph for
MVP 2
After receiving all the feedback from the Users and with the Empathy Map on mind, I find the Low-Cost High Impact Features.
Features Graph for MVP 2
After receiving all the feedback from the Users and with the Empathy Map on mind, I find the Low-Cost High Impact Features.