School started back up on Thursday, we got briefed on our new workshop:"The Home Beyond the Boundaries" and we met the big players in the company that we're working with. I think this one is gonna be slightly tougher than workshop 1 because it has to do with technology in the home. I had no idea there was soo much cool technology out there! We're working with a company named BTicino http://www.bticino.com/ They're main focus is in home/hotel/office/etc. automation so things like controlling all the lights by a remote (or on an iPhone), accessing controls of your house remotely from the internet (like being able to turn the lights and radio on and off to simulate like someone is home even when you are away), also tracking how much energy your house/office/hotel/etc. is using (in collaboration with programs like googlepowermeter: http://www.google.org/powermeter/.
Our project manager, Avril, is from a company Design for All, which is a company that works with making everything usable for everyone! It's actually pretty cool, they technically deal with "disabled" people ie: people in wheel chairs, pregnant women, the elderly etc. but she doesn't want us to think about people with disabilites, instead we have to think of all the possible users as a whole and the space has to be usable for all of them:http://www.designforalleurope.org/
Avril is really laissez-faire and basically told us that we can do whatever we want. The general brief is "how can we us BTicino technolgy in an innovative way to better the experience of the "home"". We can create a product, service, or even a business model within this category. My group and I are meeting to discuss possible ideas and we have to come up with something by Wednesday.
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