Need Finding For Fitness Tracker

Group 13

Interviews

Interviews were conducted with 3 people in order to understand the need for our fitness tracker application.

This stage of the software development lifecycle is one of the most important as they allow a development team to ensure that they are providing a feasible solution for a problem, which can be identified through need finding. This process also provides a much clearer roadmap for the development of the product.

Our Interviews were conducted with another group of students during a practical session.

Interview 1

Ryan (University Student)

"I like to exercise regularly because it makes me feel good about myself"

"I play sports occasionally, but mostly my exercise is through the gym"

"I like the idea of trying to start eating healthier, an app to help me track this would be great"

Interview 2

Daniel ( Final Year University Student )

" I have always been active with my exercise , but as I'm in my final year I do not have the time to control my diet"

" Keeping fitness goals is important so that you can work your way towards bettering yourself. It makes me more confident when I meet or exceeds my goals"

"I hate the complexity of calculating calories for meals, this can deter me from keeping track of the food I eat entirely"

Interview 3

Sarah (University Student)

"I think recently girls have started taking the gym more seriously"

"I enjoying cooking, this makes eating healthy a lot easier for me"

"I feel an app to track your eating is something that everyone should have on their phone"

Survey Conducted

An online survey was also conducted to gain the view of the larger target audience. Not only does conducting a survey allow us to identify some requirements for the new system, but it also allows us to explore the problems that current processes and applications have, so that we can have ensure that problems are being solved and that the product to be developed is benefiting a large target audience, meeting the needs of many.

SurveyQuestions

Say

"I don't have enough time to keep records of

my fitness levels"

"I like to exercise regularly, but I find it hard to keep a good

diet"

"It's hard to stay motivated sometimes, I find eating healthy can

help with this as it makes you feel good"

"Keeping a good diet can be hard if you don't

track what you're eating"

"It's hard to determine all of the nutritional values of my meals"

"Once you stop for a while, it's hard to get

going again"

"Being a student can make it hard to stick to a schedule, this makes it hard to eat healthy

consistently"

Think

Having a healthy lifestyle is very

important for him

Having an application to aid

in healthy eating would be great

Keepinga good exercise schedule is

difficult

Eating healthy is just as important as

exercise

It is important to keep your body

healthy

It is important to stick to a schedule, it makes it easier to eat good food regularly

It's difficult to maintain a full-timejob and still

exercise regularly

Do

Exercises fairly often, but eats too

much unhealthy food

Plays a lot of sport as a form of

exercise

Eats too much takeaway due to a lack of time in the

evenings

Cycles to work every day instead of getting public

transport

Uses handwritten diary to track fitness levels

Often exercises without intentions

of setting goals

Feel

Feels overwhelmed by the amount of effort required to

keep track of their food nutritional values

Feels happy after an exercise session

Feels good after a healthy meal, compared to after an

unhealthy meal

Feels worried he isn't exercising enough nor eating

healthy , feels it's hard to find whether a meal is healthy or unhealthy

Feels excited about starting a new healthy diet

Feels more confident since he started being more

healthy

Insights

There is a lot of complication around the motivation to keep track of fitness levels as it is time consuming

1

It is hard to determine the nutritional value of food and meals, as it involves a lot of calculation of individual ingredients

2

There is complexity when calculating progress towards a fitness goal set by an individual

3

Needs

A quick and easy method to track fitness levels would be great to keep motivation high

1

A simple way of calculating the nutritional value of meals without having to perform calculations

2

People need a simple method to help them track the progress towards their fitness goal

3

Point Of Views

Point Of View Development

Point of View Development took place with potential users of the system. In this presentation, the top 3 most compelling point of views were chosen to be portrayed.

Point Of View 1 : Daniel – Busy Student

We met up with a very busy student who is in

their final year at university.

We learned that he loves setting goals for

his health, but has been unable to set and

keep track of his fitness levels due to

prioritizing his time to university studies.

He thought that it would be amazing to

have an application to quickly allow him to

keep track of his goals and his nutrition levels

for his diet.

Found it would be very useful in saving time

from manual calculations of food nutritional values.

Point Of View 2 : Jessica -Student

We met up with another student who is currently studying in University at

First Year level.

We were surprised that although she is a very

active with sports societies in the

university, she struggles to set herself specific goals with her fitness.

Change to University lifestyle has made her more health conscious as she is fully in control

of her diet, so is responsible for ensuring

she has a balanced / nutritious diet.

Found that having the ability to easily track her

fitness levels would make her more

motivated to setting and sticking to these goals, allowing her to better

herself

Point Of View 3 : Dylan –A PersonalTrainer

We met up with an expert in the field of Health &

Fitness who is a personal trainer at a local leisure

center

He is well aware of the difficultness it is for

himself and his clients to ensure there is a good

balance in nutrition in their meals

" I request to some of my clients to consume higher levels of proteins, a lot of

them find it difficult to actually determine

this and can be surprised at the high levels of

protein found in some foods like sweet potato"

Feels it would be very useful for individuals to

keep track of their individual fitness goals and

diet, this would bring bigger results along with

his training plans.

Top 3 "How Might We" Statements

Insights

How might we create a quick and easy way of keeping track of fitness levels in which isn't time consuming?

1

How might we help people create and keep track of fitness goals to help keep motivation high?

2

How might we help people track the nutritional values in their diet to aid in healthy eating?

3How Might

We?

Top 3 Solution Approaches

Solution #1

How might we create a quick and easy way of keeping track of fitness levels in which isn't time consuming?

Solution :

Having an easy and simple interface for users to enter their fitness statistics

Having the users fitness levels data easily visualized through e.g. graphs rather than raw data

Provide a tutorial for first time users in order for them to understand and familiarise the system

Solution #2

How might we help people create and keep track of fitness goals to help keep motivation high?

Solution

Provide consistent reminders to the user about their goal and their progress towards that goal.

When a user reaches their goal, provide suggestions on setting a new goal based on how much they over / under achieved.

Also provide useful fitness ideas to help them on their progress. For example, can have tips sections for healthy eating , effective exercising for building muscle etc.

Solution #3

How might we help people track the nutritional values in their diet to aid in healthy eating?

Solution:

We could have an interface in which people can enter the meal that they are eating. Using our dataset , we can produce results to show the nutritional value of this meal.

The meals they enter could be stored which allows users to track the meals they've been having along with the nutritional values.

We could provide advice to users about how healthy they are eating based on the meals they are entering.

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