Evaluation

Future Releases

After further evaluating our final prototype we decided to re visit the local community centre, Onnely House in Harborne. We asked for their opinions on the product and we have taken their feedback to establish the following improvements to our product:

• A My Pharmacy feature – this feature will call previous prescriptions, allow re-fill orders and notifies a user when the order is ready
• A map of the supermarket that will list products by location, and will also indemnify where the user is currently located
• A My Deli feature which allows the user to place orders and be notified when a order is ready
• Special store offers can be targeted to specific users
• Voice feedback system that navigates the user around the supermarket
• Provide users with an instructions leaflet
• Ensure the user interface remains simple, as the amount of functions in the system increase because this will inevitably augment complexity
• A menu hierarchy which tells the user where they are – similar to the windows menu hierarchy
• Include a receipt printing feature on the device when the user purchases their shopping via the RFID sensors

Overall Evaluation

We initially outlined a problem area regarding supermarket shopping for elderly people. Our objective was to reduce the amount of problems involved with shopping at a supermarket.

When taking the final prototype to the community centre, the elderly people gave great feedback on the product. They were very impressed with certain features such as the navigation tool which reduced the amount of working, the health monitoring system which took into concern the specific health problems and the need for no queuing because transactions were taken via the RFID readers.

The team is pleased in how we implemented the user design process and watched our idea blossom in the last 10 weeks.