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CC33-Recommend feature & design changes to our prototype to help with forest fires
Project start and end dates:
2022-02-04 to 2022-04-20
We would like you to explore and document any recommendations and functionality/design modifications needed to extend our citizen science prototype, focused on floods, to help during a different type of disaster: Forest fires. We will provide screenshots and demos of our current flood prototype to help you understand and research any needed modifications. You should take into account the different needs of individuals or communities affected by forest fires, but while trying not to require us to change the existing prototype user interface, user experience, and customer journey too much. Create wireframes or mock-ups to represent the user interface changes that you think are needed to handle a forest fire disaster.
The Ohio students were tasked with exploring and documenting functionality modifications needed to extend our citizen science prototype focused on floods, to help during a wildfire disaster. While the project work had few resources provided, the students produced results of exceptional quality.
During their detailed research, they explored:
- Safety recommendations
- Dashboard for Air Quality Index (AQI)
- Gamification to incentivise users
- Make live feed easily accessible through the navigation bar
- Different user profiles and their needs (Active, passive, trolls)
- Auto detection for blurry images
- Classification of wildfire (ground, crown, surface) for users
The students were always pleasant, professional, and keen to understand our project goals and objectives, and willing to go the extra mile to help achieve them.
Overall, their contribution was of value to our future prototype design work.
Thank
You!
We would like to thank the students and teaching staff of MIS 4800 : Business IT Analysis and Consulting course. *
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