Designing With Web - Part 3: week 1
Rethink public transport experience for kids based on machine learning
Group 19
- Gergina Androlova : my exploration
- Mathilde Montassier : my exploration
- Alexandre Kielmel : my exploration
- Ziad SALHI: my exploration
Project 1: SafeDrop
Context
when? where? who? why?
A lot of children don’t have the chance to walk or bike to their school and thus they need to take the bus. What seems a very simple task for an adult can be very stressful for a little human. Did he take the right bus? In the right direction? Did he get out at the right station? It can be very stressful for parents too, not to know what happens with their children and whether they safely got to school or home.
Target
for whom?
Our target is children travelling by bus to go to school and their parents. Indeed it is important, technologically speaking, for our project to have the ration one passenger=one seat (see Services Definition). The adults are the users of the app and the children are the users of the technology.
Service offered
what? how?
Our service would find its core in an app which would enable parents to make sure their child is on the right bus at the right time, and which would alert the children about their incoming get-off spot. To do that, each seat would be equipped with a sensor that can recognize and connect to the card of the child, in which the parents would put their child’s itinerary.
Identity
Here is a mood board representing our identity:
Benchmark
List concurrents / relative projects and describe how they relate/differentiate to your project
- Citymapper: check the app's website here . It is nowadays best app for public transportation as it offers real-time infomation for various transportation devices all around the world. However the buses are not connected to the app and and the users do not get a notification on when to leave the bus.
- Citymapper Smartbus: check an article on how it works here . It is linked to our project as far as this Citymapper project introduces a smartbus beacause it is connected to electronical devices. However it's not ment to recognize every traveler individually.
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References
books/films/articles/...
Article showing how numerous apps to track your children are, yet none deal with public transportation.Project 2: Entertrain
Context
when? where? who? why?
It is of common knowledge that having kids around when we travel is not always the most pleasant experience, especially when we took place in a train which is not the cheapest travel option. Kids travel everyday, whether by themselves or with adults. We all thought one day that if these kids had something to do, they would probably leave us alone.
Since traveling First Class is not always possible, we are here to help. We have decided to develop a service that will accompany kids through their journey in the train. Focussing on train allows us both to be able to benefit to significant proportion of the population because the train in France is quite democratic, but also to be able to sell our product. The National Railway Company (SNCF) has the means to buy our solution while litte (or not) city public transportation companies are not necessarilly either willing or able to equip their buses and trams with our technology.
In a few words, our technology brings together machine learning and kids, for the best of both.
Target
for whom?
Entertrain was created to better suit the needs of traveling kids from 3 to 18. Whether they are traveling alone in the train, with their siblings, friends or parents, they could all be potentially interested by our service. At Intertrain, we actually know it will be the case! The long journeys in the high speed train, screaming for the youngest or being simply noticeably bored for the oldest are behind us. We want to empower kids and give them the place they deserve in the train. Kids, Entertrain is your friend!
Service offered
what? how?
Entertrain is a set of waterproof screens that would be displayed and kinked through an articulated arm in a big table in the train's "familly spaces." Each kid could then play by himself, but the screens could also come together and make a single big one. Kids can connect the screens and work together. They can also play on their own. Other option: network play with other children in the train or elsewhere. When no kids are around, the screens could simply be set aside thanks to the articulated and leave room for the adults around.
Entertrain in a set of educative games and exercices that adapts to the kids level, age and performances. You get better at the exercice, it gets tougher! Thank you machine learning! Whatever are your interests, you will find something entertaining but also educative for you. Your parents will be proud of their beloved kid! Depending on the age and level, Entertrain will propose to kids all sorts of games: spelling games, history games, mind games and quizzes. Of course, the good old paper and pencils will also be on the menu.
Identity
describe the universe around your service by creating a mood board and name your service accordingly
Benchmark
List concurrents / relative projects and describe how they relate/differentiate to your project
- The tablets (Samsung, Apple...), indeed kids use increasingly tablets, sometimes they have their own. They offer a lot of applications to entertain or teach children in a playful way. Therefore, it is a real threat to our project. Article from Le Figaro, about use of tablets in households. Article from a French governmental website, about data of the use of tablets in global.
- Educative tablets, dedicated for children learning are also quite threatening. In fact, many brands already thought about how to make children playing and learning at the same time. Those tablets allow children to learn how to read, count... They are also a threat to consider mainly, because their purpose it just to teach children in a playful way, which is our main goal.
- They are many websites with pedagogic goals, with which children can learn. The only problem with those websites is that people need a computer with them, and that they don't need to use it (professionally for example).
- We can also talk about educative books. They are a lot, and parents can find anything they want. ALso, it is not with a screen, which most parents appreciate.
- Finally, we can broach screens in planes. In fact, this can also relate to our project, as their goal is to entertain their customers. However, the main difference is that we want children to learn within the journey.
References
books/films/articles/...
- Silvana GRASSO, 08/10/2019, Toulouse. Ces enfants qui voyagent seul en train ou en avion, La Dépêche. The article explains how each year the number of children traveling by themselves increases by 5% and how SNCF is developping new services for this particular clientele.
- Arnaud Bouillin, 04/09/2016, La France des divorcés vue du train, Marianne. The article explains how with societal changes like single-parent famillies children are increasingly traveling by themselves. Transportez-moi. This video talks about a service from SNCF, with which parents can send their children by themselves. Those children are during the whole journey with adults to take care of them. J'ai 5 ans et je voyage seul,