Independence Project 2021

Last week I used a lot of third-party research as my hypothesis, but I was told by the lecturer that I need primary research to validate my hypothesis, so this week I need to create a questionnaire to collect data. This is the quantitative research questionnaire I created: https://forms.gle/AdteQSJNMyo4ixg39 This is the qualitative research questionnaire I created: https://forms.gle/tq74B3nFBoBPjkje6 In addition, I was also told that my target audience needed to be changed. Because my target audience was children, it is very difficult to collect information from children during this pandemic. For example, I need to get the consent of their parents, and it is not a good thing to visit others during this period. So in the end, I changed the target audience to people of the age group of teenagers and college students. At the same time, my product concept also needs to be changed, because my first-week product concept is based on children.

Welcome to the digital journal of my independent project, where I will update the progress of my independent project every week. In this project, we need to set a learning goal by ourselves. Then choose a project to do. My learning goal is to learn Arduino, and the Arduino can be controlled by a phone app. Besides, we need to come up with a local community problem, and then come up with a design to solve or have a positive impact. First of all, I choose Empowering from 3 categories. Then through my mind map, I chose the problem of device addiction in today's society. Also, I have a rough idea of the product I want to make. This product is a mobile phone dock, which can be connected to mobile phone applications. This mobile phone dock encourages people to put down their phones and do other things seriously. If the user picks up the phone dock during that period, a sound will be made to remind the user to put down the phone. In the mobile phone application, users can set a timer to d...