The document describes a proposed mobile app called Cuccin that would allow students living in dorms to share cooking appliances and coordinate cooking activities. The app would provide (1) lockers to store appliances in the dorm kitchen, (2) a way to request using appliances from other students' lockers, and (3) messaging to facilitate sharing. User research found a need for appliance storage and borrowing. Concept sketches, wireframes, and design elements are presented for the app.
2. Cohort:Users of Bill ofRights Hall kitchen
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Bill of Rights Hall Characteristics:
• Part of the high rises
• All years, freshmen through seniors
• Nearest building to the student center
3. Observation Summary
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• Kitchen is used for cooking, baking and washing dishes
• Cooking appliances are brought up in bags.
• Residents cook for more than one day.
• Kitchen is mostly used in the afternoon and evenings.
• Kitchen is used in groups, rarely alone.
• All residents open the lid of the garbage can.
6. Unmet Needs
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• A place to store cooking appliances in the kitchen.
• Being able to borrow needed cooking appliances
• A platform for communicating with other residents to
make cooking more efficient.
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7. Application Concept
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A storage space for cooking appliances in combination
with a virtual environment where people can lend out
their cooking appliances, open their locked storage
space for someone on a distance and share when they
are cooking.
8. Ideation Session Ideas
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• Share grocery costs
• Dishwashing cubbies
• Pay for locker + app with meal plan
• Sign up for locker through portal
• Fee for broken / dirty items
13. App Research: Viper
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With Viper you can start your car from a distance.
14. App Research: Peerby
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Peerby enables you to borrow items from neighbors.
15. Anna puts her
cooking appliances in
her locker and locks the
locker using the app.
Visual
scenario
16. Terri needs a spoon for
her cereal and she knows
that Anna has a spoon in
her locker.
Visual
scenario
17. Terri sends Anna
a request through
the app.
Anna accepts and opens
her locker through the app
for Terri.
Visual
scenario
18. Terri eats her cereal,
washes the spoon and
puts it back into
Anna’s locker
Visual
scenario
19. Application Description
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This application will make cooking your own food
more attractive since you have a place to store your
cooking appliances and be able to borrow cooking
appliances from others. You are able to unlock your
locker from a distance.
20. Application Features
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(Un)lock locker
Send / receive requests
Send messages
Privately / groups
Keep track of items
Personal information
Primary
Secondary
21. Home screen
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• Button to lock and unlock locker
• Notification if there is something wrong with the locker
• Search bar for needed cooking appliances
• Public and personal requests for borrowing
22. Message screen
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• Messages from individuals or groups
• Search through messages
• Start new personal message or group
• Public and personal requests for borrowing
• Notifies user when there are new messages
23. You screen
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• Banner of choice
• Personal information of user
• Settings
• Content of the locker
• Borrow history
24. Brand name: Cuccin
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Share in Cebuano is bahin
Kitchen in Spanish is cocina
Cooking in Slovenian is kuhar
Possible names: DormChef, Kocina, Cuccin