This project is on hold due to it not being accepted by the supervisor of this project. The page here is to serve progress and documentation of the team's effort over the first few days.
If there is a change in direction of the project that requires the team to reuse this idea, the team will continue with this. Otherwise, this project is on hold.
We identified the stakeholders and came up with people who are interested and have importance in the problem statement, as well as those who do not.
The target audience revolves around working adults who are too busy or too lazy to do house chores.
The persona is a doctor who has difficulty finding time to clean his house. The workload from his job and social life made him too tired to take care of his home. However, he feels uncomfortable having a maid as he very rarely goes back home and interacts very little with the maid.
He is hoping to have a way where he either has an efficient and time saving method of keeping his house clean or have an automatic cleaning house without the need for a maid
The user wakes up very early in the morning (5am) and goes to work at a hospital. There he works till late in the evening (8pm) with a heavy workload which tires him out. Afterwards, he goes to socialise with his friends a little later or goes to have his laundry done (9pm) with grocery shopping.
At home, he returns tired but hungry for supper (11pm). There, he cooks himself a meal but was too tired to wash the dishes and/or clean the house. He sleeps at 11:30pm to prepare for the next day
There are 2 main methods of collecting data done:
Interview
Online surveys
Below are the results gained from these surveys
Duration of chores
Benefits of maids
Issues of maids
Whether people want maids
All online survey results can be accessed here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1llotgRrxkEptqe6oII1QRgQaEl09_dRNr20VDprVJ4Y/edit?usp=sharing
Below are some of the interviews obtained in Day 6
20
Cooking cleaning ,vacuum, mop, clothes, plants
Vaccine and mopping
Have to move furniture and prepare the area
Do weekly 2-3h chores
Laziness due to hot weather, heavy lifting
Maid would be useful sometimes to take a break but not full time to take over
Standards may be lower
Romba not effective (pathfinding), spoiled after a while
Would get a service/product if it is more effective/reliable
Would automate, as it saves time and may be more effective (hard to reach areas)
19
Cooking
Not troublesome
Once a week
Preparation is difficult
Would prefer the maid
Communication is difficult
Product is good, convenient, customisation
Would automate house, convenience, may not be reliable, may be expensive
All interview results can be accessed here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hQsle2ELBu8L47ji0OoddSh0K_bWUfvlm6peF4atorQ/edit?usp=sharing