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| We often see nice proof-of-concept research demonstration of useful tools in magazines or on web-sites. What does it take to make this a product? Everybody can sell a beautiful concept if you don't have to build it. Also anybody can build a amazing device if you don't have to sell it. This challenging course combines the two requirements. Students have to talk to customers to understand what features are relally needed and for what costs. Students have also to make sure they can actually deliver the technological solution (that the customers wanted). | We often see nice proof-of-concept research demonstration of useful tools in magazines or on web-sites. What does it take to make this a product? Everybody can sell a beautiful concept if you don't have to build it. Also anybody can build a amazing device if you don't have to sell it. This challenging course combines the two requirements. Students have to talk to customers to understand what features are relally needed and for what costs. Students have also to make sure they can actually deliver the technological solution (that the customers wanted). | ||
| - | For example, you can think of a designing drone that works as a scarecrow by flying over the crops with a predefined set-up. Unless you talk to farmers you'll never realize that random walk is necessary to actually scare the crows. Further, automatic charging as well as automated landing by computer vision and machine learning are mission critical, so that the farmer doesn't need to be there. All this with cheap mechanical, electronic, and computing solutions as the budget is extremely tight. You might have invented the idea of an iPod-style to provide news to the blind and your first technical solutions might have been to use Braille. Unless you talked (as the Joni group did) to the blind association, you are not going to discover that the majority of your customers in Italy have become blind later in life and a product that requires learning Braille at 50s-and-more is not going to be a great success. It is great for campers, to have an anti-theft device in your tent. Yet, what if it starts blasting if you just put a rucksack in the wrong position in your own tent? | + | For example, you can design //scarecrow drone// that flies over the crops with a predefined set-up. Unless you talk to farmers you'll never realize that random walk is necessary to actually scare the crows. Further, automatic charging as well as automated landing by computer vision and machine learning are mission critical, so that the farmer doesn't need to be there. All this with cheap mechanical, electronic, and computing solutions as the budget is extremely tight. You might have invented the idea of an iPod-style to //provide news to the blind// and your first technical solutions might have been to use Braille. Unless you talked (as the Joni group did) to the blind association, you are not going to discover that the majority of your customers in Italy have become blind later in life and a product that requires learning Braille at 50s-and-more is not going to be a great success. It is great for campers, to have an //anti-theft device in your tent//. Yet, what if it starts blasting if you just put a rucksack in the wrong position in your own tent? |
| All these products, and many more, were built by students participating to this course. | All these products, and many more, were built by students participating to this course. | ||
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| There is also an eBook with a subset of the chapters that is used as a textbook for Karl Ulrich's [[https://www.coursera.org/course/design|Product Design on-line Course]] on Coursera for 30$. You can go to [[www.mcgrawhillcreate.com/shop|McGraw-Hill on-line shop]] and then search for Karl Ulrich or ISBN:9781308099064. | There is also an eBook with a subset of the chapters that is used as a textbook for Karl Ulrich's [[https://www.coursera.org/course/design|Product Design on-line Course]] on Coursera for 30$. You can go to [[www.mcgrawhillcreate.com/shop|McGraw-Hill on-line shop]] and then search for Karl Ulrich or ISBN:9781308099064. | ||
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| + | ==== Sample Projects from Past Years ==== | ||
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| + | * 2015 - Key-9 ({{:teaching:ict-innovation:2015:bestfocus.jpg?linkonly|Concept Canvas}}), Sniffpy ({{:teaching:ict-innovation:2015:bestcanvas.jpg?linkonly|Concept Canvas}}) | ||
| + | * 2016 - Evolo ({{:teaching:ict-innovation:examples:2016-evolo-canvas.pdf|Concept Canvas}}, {{:teaching:ict-innovation:examples:2016-evolo-design.pdf|Product Design}}, {{:teaching:ict-innovation:examples:2016-evolo-installation.png??linkonly|Installation Instruction}}) | ||
| + | * 2017 - FlyingScareCrow (Architectural design {{:teaching:ict-innovation:examples:2017-fsc-drone_basestation.pdf|base station}}, {{:teaching:ict-innovation:examples:2017-fsc-drone_circuit.pdf|circuit}}, {{:teaching:ict-innovation:examples:2017-fsc-drone_front_top.pdf|front-top}}, {{:teaching:ict-innovation:examples:2017-fsc-drone_side.pdf|side}}, {{:teaching:ict-innovation:examples:2017-flyingscarecrowspresentation.pdf|Final Product Presentation}}) | ||
| + | * 2018 - Prohealthy ({{:teaching:ict-innovation:examples:2018-prohelty.pdf|Product Description}}), CarE ({{:teaching:ict-innovation:examples:2018-care.pdf|Product Presentation}}) | ||
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| ==== Course Material of Previous Years ==== | ==== Course Material of Previous Years ==== | ||
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| * [[ict_innovation_2018|academic year 2017/2018]] | * [[ict_innovation_2018|academic year 2017/2018]] | ||
| - | ===== Spring 2019 ===== | + | ===== Current year ===== |
| ==== Product Idea ==== | ==== Product Idea ==== | ||
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| ^Date ^Topic ^Information ^ | ^Date ^Topic ^Information ^ | ||
| - | | Mid March | Concept Feedback Sessions | | | + | | Mid March | Concept Feedback Sessions | Presentation of your draft concept ideas | |
| - | | Mid April | Design Feedback Sessions | | | + | | Mid April | Design Feedback Sessions | Presentations of your draft product architecture | |
| | End April | Design Feedback Sessions | | | | End April | Design Feedback Sessions | | | ||
| - | | End May | Product Feedback Sessions | | | + | | Early May | Define Your Hardware Lists | Each team should specify a final list of material that they need to buy to assemble their product | | |
| + | | End May | Product Feedback Sessions | Presentations and discussion on key issues of your product | | ||
| | Early June | Product Feedback Sessions | | | | Early June | Product Feedback Sessions | | | ||
| ==== Major Grading Milestones ==== | ==== Major Grading Milestones ==== | ||
| - | ^ Date ^ Topic ^Grade Points ^Description | + | ^ Date ^ Topic ^Grade Points ^Description ^ |
| - | | Late March | Concept's Idea Canvas Show at EIT CLC | 10/30| Each team will produce a concept's idea canvas to clarify the key strong points on their product | | | + | | Late March | Concept's Idea Canvas Show at EIT CLC | 10/30| Each team will produce a concept's idea canvas to clarify the key strong points on their product | |
| - | | Early May | Define Your Hardware Lists | - | Each team should specify a final list of material that they need to buy to assemble their product | | | + | | Early May | System Design Poster Show at EIT CLC | 10/30 | Teams will produce a detailed architecture and a poster explaining how their product will work | |
| - | | Early May | System Design Poster Show at EIT CLC | 10/30 | Teams will produce a detailed architecture and a poster explaining how their product will work | | | + | | Mid June | Product ShowRoom | 15/30 | Each team will have a small budget for hardware/software and will have to actually present a working product | |
| - | | Mid June | Product ShowRoom | 15/30 | Each team will have a small budget for hardware/software and will have to actually present a working product | | | + | |
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