Dear All,

Yesterday our two designers (Romain and Tanguy) and business developer (Giulia), met with our 2 supervisors from the HEAD.

There has been a lot of discussion regarding the feasibility of our project, especially because the motions, number of pieces, material were too complex and might be too expensive.

So we take their advice carefully and decided to pivot. Our designer starte […]

Dear CHIC Community,

We’ve done, for the MS1, a lot of meetings, brainstorming sessions and workshops to prepare interviews with our early adopters like agronomists and hydrological experts of École Nationale Supérieure d’Agriculture (ENSA, Thiès, Sénégal) which is a senegalese school which forms engineers in the agriculture’s field. The objective was principally to eval […]

Dear CHIC Community,

During the Milestone 3, we defined the architecture of hydraulic diagram with data collected during the interviews. A presentation have been made by one of our collaborators who is  an agronomist to allow  project members  to better understand the system so that they can make proposals of  technical appropriate solutions .

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The meeting with our early adopters was very interesting and rich in terms of informations. Many of our hypotheses weren’t totally exact ; that’s why  we let them explain themselves clearly and expose their problematic situations. At the end of the meeting, they formulated modal proposals of solutions which will probably help us in our project and consequently, them in there activities. It was ri […]

Dear CHIC Community,

We are from École Supérieure Polytechnique de Dakar (ESP) which is a polytechnic school in the senegalese capital. We’ve recently join this program and we are really happy to be part of the 2018/2019 edition of  CHIC Program. The managers  of CHIC have talked us about you and your projects and we are so excited  to share, exchange and learn with all of you this year.

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Hello everyone!

This week, we have spoken with our supervisor about our prototyping.

We discuss about our buttons ! We want to create interactive buttons with sceen on it.
The best according to the interviews would be an e-ink screen with retro lighting. We are still discussing about creating it ouselve or buy it.

A good thing we are considering to use is a Neopixel which could be very useful f […]

Hello everyone,

Last week during our meeting we decided to define and focus our work with more precision. We started by asking again ourselves about the real goal of our project. Who are the real target customers and users, which is the real value proposition and who are our competitors. It was really necessary for us if we would continue to develop our project through a relevant way.

As a r […]

Hello everyone!

During our last Milestone we presented all scenarios to describe how the different users such as patients, relatives and the health staff will interact with our device.

In order to manage the data f […]

Dear readers,

Last week we had the MS3. That was a good occasion to receive some feedbacks about our project from our supervisors.

Afterwards, we had a meeting to analyse that feedback to consequently reinforce our project.

Our designer is doing a great job and the design of the knee brace becomes more precisely every day.

We are also working hard on the application. We are continuing […]

All Wudans happily reunited last Monday to discuss feedbacks from MS3 !

All together, we debated and agreed on important decisions. It was a very loud and intense meeting.

It really felt like everyone was so involved. Some were sitting some standing, One was in a weird position and one was walking around. Everyone was expressing importants points, listening, challenging each other domains, shout […]

Dear CHIC Community,

For our last team meeting, the business students conducted some interviews with some early adaptors such as pharmacists and patients. We are going to present the results during the MS3 presentation.

Some […]

Hi Everyone,
This week we got more into group organisation. We planned our futur meetings until MS4 and we talk again about the idea that we would like to have a moment where each of us explains what does he study and shows maybe one or two projects about that. We also want to go in the thermal baths to have another activity together than working on our project but […]

Dear readers,

After a quiet long absence on the blog, it’s a real pleasure to write you again. We’ve got a lot of reassessments and it was difficult for us to go forward.

Since we choose to have a permanent device in the offices, we kept going in a direction that was not coherent. We didn’t really consider the substance of our project. We wanted to do everything (live mechanical feedback wit […]

Hello everyone,

So, this Friday, we had the MS3 and the feedback that go with it bought a lot of doubt on the clarity of the scenario. It seems that we have not totally define the context in which we want our “vitrine” to exist.

We took into account every concern from the CHIC community and we are now more motivate than ever to face the next steps of the project.

On a more positive note, af […]

Dear readers,

We are getting ready for Milestone 3 which will take place on April 2.

This week we agreed on the design of the prototype and on the distribution of the drugs.

We decided that our first prototype wil […]

Hi everyone!

Last Wednesday we had our Milestone 3 presentation at the HEAD in Geneva with our respective supervisors.

We made a lot of progress in the weeks before the presentation, to finally get some more f […]

Hello everyone!

MS3 is in a few days and decisions have to be done! Thankfully we have tea to calm us down and keep the mood up to keep going!

In the last week, we finalised the customer journey, which has brought to a decision on the features we will work on this semester. Components have been bought and negotiations have started also with a Chinese screen manufacturer.

At the same time […]

Dear readers

Next week we are meeting a gamification specialist to help us build the mobile app that will be provided with our prototype. The goal is to allow people using our device to have a funnier way to practice their rehab, so they do their rehab with more pleasure than a regular rehab.

Also, the first kit of sensors has been ordered and we can’t wait […]

Hi everyone!

MS3 is slowly but steadily approaching and TΨ is getting ready! Last week, prototyping advanced considerably and also a lot of new meetings were fixed. We are going to talk to even more people in healthcare than we did until now, be it people working in hospitals or in care centers for elderly people. Exciting times for T<span c […]