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Physical Prototypes

Documentation: Prototype Testing 

Main Question:  What did we learn from creating our prototypes and receiving feedback from potential users?  How did we incorporate these learnings into the development of our prototype?

• From our prototypes, 

  • we learned from our faulty advisors and physical tests with us sitting at the physical prototype of the whiteboard desk that it needs to be made wider to comfortably seat potential students as the original design was too narrow for taller students' legs to fit more comfortably. 

    • Thus, we made the dimensions for our final prototype wider at the frame to give extra room at the base for leg space. 

  • We learned from current teachers from Somerset after looking at the physical prototype of the teacher stand that they would like it to be taller than waist height as they do not want to have to awkwardly crouch down to use the stand and they were concerned about mobility as the prototype did not have wheels. 

    • Therefore, we made the teacher stand have longer legs with height-adjustable pins so that an individual teacher of any height can adjust the legs to their preferable height. 

    • We also have always planned for the teacher stand and desks to have wheels, so this complaint will be resolved once our final prototype is made.

Supporting Questions:  What did we build?  What questions did we seek to answer?  How did we test our hypothesis?  What is the summary of what we've learned and contributed?

• We built a whiteboard desk and a teacher stand in hopes to innovate the classroom for an increase in active learning for students and mobility for teachers. 

• The question we sought to answer was how could we improve upon the standard classroom where both students and teachers could be energized and excited to learn.

  • Therefore, our hypothesis is that if both students and teachers have specialist desks to more efficiently learn/teach, then both will be more happier and excited to be there.  

    • To test in a non-biased way, we showed pictures of our prototypes to teachers at Somerset and asked them to rank them based on several categories.

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