Project Proposal V1.3 - Group

 

Media Business Project 2023-24 

Project Proposal 

Team Name:  KitKat

Student Names: Tala Dabbagh, Éanna Burke, Katie Healy, Killian Harte

Project Name: PERIL

Version:

V 1.3

Synopsis:

The tool will be able to recognise the warning signs of a volcanic eruption because it will be connected to the equipment monitoring the volcanoes. When the equipment picks up abnormal volcanic activity such as an extreme change in temperature or an increase in sulfur-dioxide, it will send out a warning to people through our smart accessory.

Project Aim: 

To design a smart accessory that will notify people who are within the danger area of a volcano when the monitoring equipment recognises the warning signs of an eruption.

Team Roles:

Project Manager: Katie

Head of Design: Éanna

Head of Research: Killian

Head of Testing: Tala

Background: 

Volcanoes are highly unpredictable and pose a unique challenge to disaster management authorities. The amount of data available to analyse is limited, and different volcanoes can exhibit different behaviours. Observations that help to predict eruptions for one volcano can’t reliably predict eruptions for another.

       In New Zealand there are minor eruptions every few years. Since 2000, there have been 5 eruptions in New Zealand: one in 2006, one in 2013, two in 2015 and one in 2019. There were 22 deaths during the 2019 eruption, and the previous four caused at least 1 death each. There are currently 9 active volcanoes, with elevations ranging from 137 metres to 2796 metres.

Objectives:

1. Research

• Methods to increase the chances of detecting an eruption early.

• Reasons pre-existing safety measures failed so terribly in 2019.

• To gain an understanding of the sites of active volcanoes in New Zealand.

• Protocols that New Zealand have in place for eruptions.

2. Prototyping 

• Record and develop our ideas by using loose sketches and scribbles.

• Build our first paper prototype.

• Test our prototype with people we can rely on to be honest.

• Analyse our feedback.

• Reassess our design by creating solutions to the problems that were flagged in our feedback.

• Build a high fidelity prototype, to get more detailed feedback.

• Finalise our design through feedback from our prototype presentation, followed by a final round of testing.

3. Final Pitch

• Create our report based on the work we've undertaken for this project.

• Create and present our final pitch to our client. 

Timetable: 

Week 6 & 7: Complete our research and start ideating prototypes for our solution.

Week 8: Submit our work for the Research & Management Assessment and create the first version of our prototype.

Week 9: Develop our our initial prototype based feedback we get during testing.

Week 10: Present the current iteration of our prototype in our Prototype Presentation.

Week 11: Create our final prototype based on feedback from the Prototype Presentation and a final round of testing. We also begin finalising our report.

Week 12: Present our final prototype to our client and submit our report.