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Problem Statements
Problem Statements
Users find it difficult to obtain the weekly menu and its nutritional information regarding Pierce Dining Hall’s options to suit their dietary needs.
Users feel overwhelmed by the abundance of options at Pierce Dining Hall and lack of resources to guide students toward their nutritional goals.
Users are frustrated with a lack of tools that allow them to plan their meals effectively.
Statement-Restatement
Statement-Restatement
How can we make Pierce's weekly menu and corresponding nutritional information more accessible to users, helping them make quick and informed meal decisions?
Source/Cause Approach
Source/Cause Approach
Revision Method
Revision Method
Currently, our solution plans to display Pierce’s menu for the week, along with the food’s nutritional value, however, this can be expanded to include the menu for other food spots around campus as well, such as gateway cafe, cannon cafe, and the UCC.
Present State-Desired State
Present State-Desired State
Kepner-Tregoe Situational Analysis
Kepner-Tregoe Situational Analysis
Knowns
The variety of dietary restrictions and needs on campus
The lack of accessible resources meant to educate students on healthful nutrition
The desire to create an app designed to aid the Stevens’ population in making informed dietary decisions.
Unknowns
Specific nutritional information within the dining options
Users’ specific dietary needs
Potential data privacy concerns
User feedback and user friendliness
Volume of demand
Tasks
Meet with Stevens Dining and create a plan on obtaining nutritional information and maintaining relevant information.
Obtain potential user feedback and feature analysis to aid in construction of the application.
Compile obtained information into an application prototype.
Troubleshooting and debugging
Testing and validation
Obtain user feedback
Implement improvements based on the user feedback
Kepner-Tregoe Problem Analysis
Kepner-Tregoe Problem Analysis
What?
What?
What are we constrained by?
Stevens community demand
Time
Knowledge provided by Stevens dining
What is important?
Accurate and updated information
Data privacy of users
User friendliness
What is NOT important?
Anyone outside the Stevens community
Dining outside the Stevens community
When?
When does the problem occur?
When students are overwhelmed by options with lack of accessible nutritional knowledge
When students with specific dietary needs are unsure of what options are available to them
When is a solution expected?
As of now, there is no comprehensive solution being provided through Stevens (which is why we are creating this application)
Where?
Where did the problem occur?
The problem occurs within the Stevens community going to Pierce dining hall
Where is equipment located?
The app would require all users to have access to a cell phone where they can download it
Where is the customer located?
The customers of the app would typically be using the app from Stevens campus, but could also look at it from anywhere
Who?
Who can provide more information?
Pierce dining hall staff
End-users
Who is the customer?
The customers are the people looking to use the Pierce dining hall menu to eat healthier
Who performed (each) task?
The engineering team worked on design and development
Future testing by beta testers for feedback to engineering team
Who is the source of information?
App beta testers
Logs from the app on the current system
Who is affected by the problem?
The Stevens community that eats at Pierce dining hall
How?
How can a task be performed?
A task can be performed when the users download the app, gaining full access to its perks
How did the problem develop?
The problem developed because there is no easy way to meal plan using the current system that Pierce dining hall offers
Why?
Why is the problem important?
The problem is important because watching the kind of food you eat is crucial to your health and students need an easy way to navigate the abundance of food options at Pierce
Why is the problem NOT important?
The problem may not be important to some people because they never look at what they eat
Why does the solution work?
The solution would work because it would allow users to check nutritional information, plan their meals in advance, and guide the users on what they should eat according to their goals.
Why is there a problem?
There is a problem because planning meals with the current system Pierce uses is difficult
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