Conception

After having a deeper look into our check and surfing the internet on different ideas that could be useful for us, we came across the following ideas:

1. Radio Programming- We thought of using radio as a concept taken from Saregama Carvaan, which will play retro songs or bhajans, which most of the elder people are fond of, thereby, reducing their boredom.

2. Anti- Depression App (Random Chat)- The idea was to make elderly people busy in something, and this could be done by making them meet with random strangers of their age in the locality near them.

3. Walkie-Talkie- As our elderly feel difficult to operate mobile phones due to high technology to talk to other people, we thought of using simple and easy to use the walkie talkie so that they can easily talk with their friends/family with just one button. 

4. Additional changes/edits on Radios for experiences- Elder people would collect their experiences, it could be any memory of them that they could recollect or some new memory which they don't want to forget, as after researching we have found that many elder people tend to forget things quickly.

After keeping all these points in mind and compiling them we tried out many different prototypes that could help us building our final product.

A1.

                        

The problem with this was when there is no one around, it would be a complete waste and so we went for another prototype.

A2.

We included one more section in our model, that would play songs of their choice, but when we researched that there are many similar products and so we wanted something more than a radio and a walkie talkie. So we planned to include a screen. 

B1. 

This was a simple edit in our normal radios, which would include a screen and then we would try out different things on that screen. Instead of walkie talkie, we tried to include something like video calling.

Advantage: We can play with UI on the screen, as it can have bigger icons being more comfortable for the elderly. Visuals always speak more for the elderly. 

Disadvantage:  We thought that this prototype could be difficult to carry as it is horizontally long and also there is a risk of breaking the screen if it falls down.

B2:

Advantage: More compact structure, easy to carry as a folding feature is included.

                     Less risk of damaging the screens as buttons are shifted downwards.

                     After folding, there is extra protection for the screen, so won't break easily.

Disadvantage:  We thought that including the screen and adding folding feature would increase the cost of our whole product. So we decided to reduce cost from other areas.