3rd WEEK Begins :D

    During my group's activity, we learned seriously how to make the bibliography, and proposal.
Here is our proposal :D

Proposal for Design Process

Group                       : LOL

Members                   : Jessica (Leader)           

       Gaby (Scribe)

       Jingxi

       Pauline

Topic                        : Children’s schoolbag is too heavy

Description               :

Nowadays majority of children who go to school face the problem of heavy schoolbags. Surveys have shown that considerable number of students from primary to secondary schools often carry bags that are more than 10% body weight. The negative consequences have been yielded such as pain in back, shoulders and neck and in some cases scoliosis for young children. The first step of approaching this was to identify the stakeholders of it and continued by considering all possible factors that may have contributed in creating the problem.  

Stake holders:                                        Possible factors:

-        Students                                 - Availability of good school bag quality with reasonable price in the market

-        Parents                                  - School curriculum

-        Teachers                                - Book sizes and weight

-        School                                   - Teachers and parents control on the children
-                                                  -Students’ attitude

           Empathizing was the next step to gain a better understanding of each stakeholder’s perspective of this problem. To research into specific problems, we created framed design question to identify possible problems for which solutions can be designed to solve the problems. Here is the list of our design questions:

- What is the availability of ergonomically designed bag in the market?

- What is the price range of ergonomics school bags?

- Why are school books’ designs bulky?

- Who are involved (the most) to this problem? 

- What is the percentage of school providing locker facility or book/laptop rental facility?

Research Sources

Online article

Yap, Eve. ‘Kids’ Weighty Problem’. The Straits Times.  12 Jan. 2014. Accessed 18 Jan. 2014

Handlon, Rhonda. ‘The Family Media Guardian’. Focus On The Family. 13 Jan. 2014.

Book

Waliszweski, Bob. ‘Plugged-in Parenting’. Tindale House. 2011.

Super thankksss to Gaby, our beloved scribe !!!! 

hahahaa 

She was the one who started this proposal

and She did great, didn't she?!!