Project Part #1 - Project Proposal

From the class lectures, discussions, activities and assignments performed in the past weeks, as a group, you need to come up with a proposal you wish to pursue for the HCI project. Each group will have to design a particular interactive system/application/product (either for computer desktop/laptop or mobile/standalone or other new emerging technologies) that interests you. The project may aim to replace or update an established system, or it may aim to develop a totally innovative product with no obvious precedent. The project phases (in parts) will reflect the stages of interaction design process and submitted as project deliverables throughout the semester.  

Pre-process: Analysing problem space                                                                 

It is important to have a clear understanding of why and how you are going to design something, as it can save enormous amounts of time, effort and money later on the design process. Upon reaching your decision, your group should attempt to identify, understand and examine usability and user experience issues through the process of conceptualizing interaction, as described below:

Understand and conceptualize interaction. Analyse and describe a problem space. Are there any problems with an existing product or issues with its user experience? If so, what are they? If you are designing for a new user experience, how do you think your proposed design ideas support, change, or extend the current ways of doing things? Come up with possible solutions to the problems you describe above, i.e. a “better” interface/interaction/etc. that you envision and how it will address the problem. Who will use this application?