Loves Food Sustainability in the office through a smart, green, food storage system Apina Ahilan Eleni Chrysafis James Fehon ayog8178 | echr7721 | jfeh3722 1 Assignment 3 (Project Presentation) – IDEA9106
What is sustainability? Sustainability is about developing … and meeting current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. (Choi and Yu, 2014) Video Misty Mountains Minute 2
Our focus: Sustainable office practices. Employees’ … practices in the office, which reduce harm on the environment and reduce wastage of resources. (Queensland Health, 2009) Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images 3
Improving sustainability in the workplace Individuals behaviour can be very difficult to change. Our user research suggests this is the case even when people want to change . Workplaces are potentially an effective context in which social and structural influence mechanisms could be engaged to help change behaviour. Video by Coverr 4
The problem It’s hard to know what things you’re doing are having a negative impact when they are your everyday habits. • Food is the biggest contributor to personal greenhouse gases 28.2% • Up to 1/3 of food is thrown away (UQLD, 2016) • Australians waste $8 billion worth of edible food each year(ABC News, 2013) Organisations are investing on green technologies for their own benefits, but they left a big gap in between the employees and their best practices 5 ayog8178 | echr7721 | jfeh3722
The solution Photo: archiii.com/2013/01/syzygy-frankfurt-office-design-by-3deluxe/ We see using everyday technologies to solve everyday habits as a clear choice. Our solution is to promote a shift in employee behaviour via continuous monitoring and motivation, through Internet of Things (IoT). 6
The solution concept Our solution, Loves Food helps teams in office work environments reduce the carbon footprint by focussing on the reduction of food waste. By tracking each staff member's food storage, expiry dates and the sustainability of the food itself the team overall can track its progress towards sustainability goals. Our design solution is a Smart Green Fridge and integrated mobile web application. 7 ayog8178 | echr7721 | jfeh3722
What does it do? 8 ayog8178 | echr7721 | jfeh3722
How we measure Avoid$Food$ Waste Food$share$ Echo$ with$ Food$ friendly$ colleagues/ packaging charity Sustainable$ KPI Consumpti Buy$local$&$ on$of$meat$ seasonal$ and$dairy food Figure: https://sustainabletable.org.au/Portals/0/CofM.pdf 9 ayog8178 | echr7721 | jfeh3722
How we measure Figure: Sustainability Score 10 ayog8178 | echr7721 | jfeh3722
Benefits Recycling 4 Food)Wastage 2 Energy)Use 3 1 Food Efficient Food Reduce Socialisation Food) 5 KPI)Measurement 6 8 7 Food Sustainability Hygienic Healthy Charity Food Food Affordability 10 9 Best)use) Food of)Office) Space 11
Our solution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfzo1DxpqNc 12 ayog8178 | echr7721 | jfeh3722
Our process We cycled through three iterations of our prototype, refining as we went from very rough to something more polished. At each stage we experimented, uncovered new problems and returned to conduct new research to find new solutions. Video Sketching a concept on paper 13
Our process G: Background and user research, compared, synthesised and expanded upon. I: Initial additional concepts created. M: New concepts explored through sketches. E: Design group reviewed new concepts, assessed against Persona needs and selected one. R: Elements of original designs, all research and alternate concepts tested against selected solution. 14
Grounding Our process Background research 15 ayog8178 | echr7721 | jfeh3722
Grounding Our process Combined user research 16 total research interviews shared with the design team ayog8178 | echr7721 | jfeh3722
Ideation Idea generation In our divergent ideation phase we also considered two alternate concepts: “Office Garden” and the “Bio-feedback green wall”
Evaluation Design concepts rated User need requirements Green Wall Green Kitchen Green Fridge 1. Flexibility to incorporate the sustainability in the organisation’s business ? ? ? decision. 2. Sustainable office practices via KPI measurements and meaningful feedbacks. 3. Installation in the places where the weaknesses exist in following the sustainable green practices mainly in the kitchen area. 4. Following benefits for food sustainability : reduce food wastages, energy efficiency, healthy and hygienic. 5. Sustainable behaviour within a relaxed and happy environment. 6. The design shall be reliable and user friendly - easy to use. 7. The design shall best use the office-space.
Ideation Our process Storyboarding - Eleni Storyboarding - Apina Storyboarding - James 19
Manifestation Pre-alpha prototype We created a physical model ‘cardboard touch screen’ for a ‘Wizard of Oz’ type test within our team. 20
Evaluation Pre-alpha testing We used our physical model prototype setup for body storming, and Persona based walkthroughs activities. 21 ayog8178 | echr7721 | jfeh3722
Pre-alpha testing 22
Reflection Pre-alpha testing results We refined our system interface, from our initial ‘Wizard of Oz screens” to a task flow that could be made into a wire-framed mockup. We also discovered we needed to resolve: • How to throw out an item • A barcode scanner gun that was annoying not useful • The layout of the interface screen 23 ayog8178 | echr7721 | jfeh3722
Manifestation Evaluation Alpha prototype Paper prototyping, testing with users. 24
Manifestation Alpha prototype We trialled a new sketched mobile application alongside our paper prototypes, after realising that space in a shared kitchen can be limited at busy times. 25
Manifestation Alpha prototype Smartphone and fridge interface prototypes were all initially hand-sketched interfaces. We made them interactive using Marvel as the delivery mechanism. We switched to high fidelity mockups using Sketch for our next iteration. + + + Sketches with interactive Wireframe mockups with Screen capture task flows interactive task flows while testing Alpha prototypes Beta prototype 26
Reflection Ideation Alpha prototype user testing results Manually entering items if they had no barcode to scan was still very time consuming. Scanning items a second time if you used a “self check out” was kind of frustrating. Not everyone wanted to add an extra app to their phone. ayog8178 | echr7721 | jfeh3722
Grounding Ideation Beta prototype Through feedback from our earlier prototypes and additional background research we implemented the following additional changes. • Further changes to the touch screen interface, to simplify the flow for adding an item to the fridge • New design for a way for the device to perform image recognition to enter an item instead of typing. • We introduce integration with your supermarket loyalty card account, to import data from your latest shop. • We added email notices, as office staff might be more likely to respond to an alert on their work email when they’re at work! 28 ayog8178 | echr7721 | jfeh3722
Manifestation Beta prototype Our companion mobile application, and revised physical models were ready to test with users! 29
Evaluation User testings tasks We conducted our tests with the following goal oriented tasks: Task 1 Task 2 Task 3 Task 4 You’ve just returned to You brought leftovers You’re about to go on There’s a punnet of the office with grocery from last night’s dinner. leave for a few days strawberries in your and want to store these It was nice but you’d and know that a salad fridge that you don’t items in the fridge. really prefer to eat you’d bought won’t be want and they are something else. usable by the time you expiring soon. return to the office. Arrange to take a Offer to share it with Open your drawer and colleagues food and Donate the food to the team, then give it add each item. offer yours to anyone charity and leave it for to a team member if who’d like it. collection. they request it. 30 ayog8178 | echr7721 | jfeh3722
Evaluation User tests - Documentation 31
Reflection Evaluation Insights Post experience questionnaire Attrakdiff survey results showed our current iteration was rated by users as: quite technical only slightly appealing inventive and not tacky motivating but (not hugely) 32 ayog8178 | echr7721 | jfeh3722
Reflection Evaluation Insights System Usability Scale score Five users rated our design solution using the standardise SUS questionnaire. Our score: 77.0 Not too shabby! 33 ayog8178 | echr7721 | jfeh3722
Reflection Evaluation Insights System Usability Scale score Our lowest rankings were: • Unnecessary complexity • Need to learn a lot of things before getting going with the system Percentile rankings of SUS scores: “A Practical Guide to the System Usability 34 Scale: Background, Benchmarks, & Best Practices,” by J. Sauro, 2011
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