Teamwork on the development of potential solutions to the Sleep Deprivation problem posed for the course. Assignment is "Challenging Two" and Requires the team to develop a list of 100 brainstormed options for helping a person solve the problem of an animal desturbing their sleep.

1. Stanford University On-Line
Crash Course in Creativity Fall
2012

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3. • Situation: There have recently been several reports of
animal - human communications events (whales,
dolphins, elephant, birds, apes, chimpanzees and so on).
• Vision: To develop tablets or other electronic interfaces
to extend human - animal communications.
• Mission: to put together a team to explore options for
developing such a medium.
• Seeking:
• People with skills in the structure of languages and
communications
• People with good app development skills
• Animal behaviourists
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4. PART 1 of this assignment, to be completed over FOUR weeks.
• Your challenge is to tackle the problem of NOT GETTING
ENOUGH SLEEP. Many people suffer from sleep deprivation.
Some have babies who wake them up, some are woken up by
someone snoring, some work the night shift, some suffer from
barking dogs next door, and others have jet lag. The
challenges to getting enough sleep are endless...
Part 2
• By Tuesday 11:59 PM Pacific Time on December 4, your
team should submit at least 100 solutions for the problem
you are solving. Remember to use the brainstorming
guidelines.
• Special Instructions
• You can submit a list, a mind map, a prezi, or slides.
• The instructor suggests that we do a Google Image Search to
see examples of mind maps. They provide a great way to
capture ideas.
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6. • Given the disconnect between the original creative
concept (animal apps) and the assignment (sleep
deprivation) there is a need to reconsider what problem
we wish to solve and how.
• Some team members (Arv, Ana, Fred) restated the
problem to be solved as shown on the next sheet
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7. • In a town-house a dog, at night, not awake to their
masters needs, continually barks or gets on the bed to
annoy their owners. If they close the door the dog barks
and scratches at the door. This has become an
uncomfortable situation because the owners can not get
enough sleep to perform their daily tasks: some work and
others study.
• All that has happened is they give things to the dog. But
they have been unsuccessful because the dog is an adult
and is also large.
• The owners have contacted our group / team to help
them to provide an innovative solution to this situation
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8. • Agreed by active team members to use a shared
document on Google Drive as a tool for brainstorming
• One Team Member drafted the first format, a 3-column
table, and posted it and shared to Google Drive.
• Team members opened the doc, added their own ideas,
and saved for others to review.
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9. Name of the Description Your name
idea
Get a female dog as a company to our dog,
maybe he feels alone and that the reason of his
1. Pet
noise.
Girlfriend Fred
(novia)
Conseguir una perra para que le haga compañía,
quizá se sienta sólo y por ello hace ruído
Made a door’s cover, when the dog scratch it
produce a stinky smell only for dogs, so the dog
must stop scratching
2. Stinky
Ana Belén
Scratch
Hacer una covertura que cuando el perro rasque
la puerta produzca un olor horrible solo para el
perro y así dejará de rascar.
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10. Name of the Description Your
idea name
3. Blanket Manufacture animal beds with blankets that have an
Arvid
Screen App video display of the person being disturbed on it.
4. Blanket Manufacture animal beds with blankets that have an
Screen App video display of the person being disturbed on it with Arvid
with Sound the added feature of recorded sound
5. Blanket Manufacture animal beds with blankets that have an
Screen App video display of the person being disturbed on it with Arvid
with Music the added feature of recorded sound
6. Blanket Manufacture animal beds with blankets that have an
Screen App video display of the person being disturbed on it with
the added feature of stroking / petting arm Arvid
with arm’
that strokes
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11. Name of the Description Your name
idea
7. Blanket Manufacture animal beds with blankets that
Screen App with have an video display of the person being
Arvid
arm’ that strokes disturbed on it with the added feature of
and plays music stroking / petting arm and Muici
8. Screen App
Manufacture small robust wireless screens
that displays
that can sit at the head of the pet’s bed and Arvid
dog’s favourite
displays pleasant scenes.
outdoor scenes
9. Screen App
Manufacture small robust wireless screens
that displays
that can sit at the head of the pet’s bed
dog’s favourite
displaying pleasant scenes and playing Arvid
outdoor scenes
music or sound backgrounds that lull the pet
and plays quiet
to sleep.
music or sounds
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12. Name of the idea Description Your name
10. Screen App that Manufacture small robust wireless
displays dog’s real screens that can sit at the head of
outdoor camera the pet’s bed displaying live scenes Arvid
footage from a from the outside of the residence
security camera from a security camera.
Manufacture small robust wireless
11. Screen App that screens that can sit at the head of
displays dog’s real the pet’s bed displaying live scenes
outdoor camera from the outside of the residence Arvid
footage from a from a security camera.and playing
security camera music or sound backgrounds that lull
the pet to sleep.
Provide a room in the house where
12. Soundproof
the pet can be bedded overnight Arvid
Room
while the person wishes to sleep.
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13. Name of the idea Description Your name
13. Provide a Provide a ‘doghouse in the residence where
sound-proof pet the pet can be bedded overnight while the Arvid
‘house’ person wishes to sleep.
Cada noche, durante una hora, una persona
14. Hacer deporte de la casa debe llevar al perro a caminar por
con el perro antes el vecindario; ésto lo dejará fatigado y
de acostarse posiblemente lo pondrá a dormir toda la
(Google noche. Fred
Translate: Make (Every night, for an hour, a person of the
sport with the dog house should take the dog for a walk around
before bed) the neighborhood, this will leave you fatigued
and possibly put you to sleep all night.)
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14. Name of the idea Description Your name
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15. Name of the idea Description Your name
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16. Name of the idea Description Your name
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18. Given the long list of possible solutions the team will need
to:
• Review the list individually and select the best 10-25
• Discuss all of the 100+ options as a team
• Agree on a common set of selection Criteria
• Select a set of agreed to best 15 ideas
• Modify the selection criteria
• Narrow the options to 5 and discuss
• Narrow options to 2
• Take 2 best ideas to market survey
• Develop prototypes for best two
• Based on Mkt Survey and Prototype testing select best
option
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