Dear CHIC community,
Another intensive week has passed.
Monday we had the ideation evening, where through quantitative brainstorming we came out with interesting ideas.
We spent also some time refining our opportunity space.
Vuk and Antoni met with the responsible Swiss recycling Romandie, and we learned that Swiss people are already too good at separating their waste. There is no need for a produ […]

Hi everyone,

After a creative ideation workshop, we had our weekly meeting on Tuesday. Urbain welcomed us to the premises of his association, The Forum, on the EPFL Campus (this is a small advertising for him). We really jumped into the solution part of the CHIC program, shared ideas, and cared a lot about every T-PSY’s member’s opinion.

We realized we were missing some interviews so we took […]

Hello everyone!

This week started with a new workshop to launch us on the new Milestone Objectives: Ideation!

Now that we identified our opportunity space, and work to refine it according to the feedback we […]

Hello everyone!

Today we had our second team meeting to define our opportunity space.

We choose to focus our attention to the health system in Switzerland.

In order to define our human, physical and data space we prepared a […]

Dear CHIC Community,

This week was very important for us since we had our first big step as a team: Milestone 1.

It was quite an intense (read, insane) week, and everyone worked very hard to finish the report and the presentation on time. After a big rehearsal at ECAL, we were finally ready to present our two opportunity spaces.

Happily, the presentation went well, we really appreciated t […]

Dear readers,

These past few days have been super intense for the Zhu Zhu team!
This week was the deadline for delivering our Milestone 1 report. Hopefully, the whole team put in it a great amount of work and we were highly satisfied. After doing some last interviews, we finalized the report and prepare the oral presentation. We ended up with a new opportunity triangle with home as physical sp […]

Hi everybody!

The first Milestone lies now behind us. Between the kick-off weekend in October and last Friday’s milestone, TΨ was able to further explore the opportunity space “Stress”. By implementing the techniques learned during the kick-off weekend, we went out to the world and started to gather information. Our main tool was conducting interviews with all people from diffe […]

Dear readers,

This is our first post for this big community!

Let’s start with the presentation of our FRITEAM (name might be change) composed by:
-Stefania Sergi HEG – Business
-Jeanne Moënnat HEG – Business
-Gaël Abdalla HEIA – Electronic Engineering
-Daniel Eicher HEIA – Mechanical Engineering
-Michel Sahli HEIA – Software Engineering
-Jocelyn Mauron HEIA – Software Enginee […]

Hello to everyone!

The last few weeks have been tiring but fun to say the least!

We explored various physical spaces such as nightclubs, hospitals, train stations, grocery stores etc.

Also, various interviews were conducted with the people interacting these physical spaces and the team met two times a week to discuss and put these insights into order.  Finally, we came up with the presentatio […]

The first Milestone presentation is done!

Last Wednesday, our team had to present our opportunity space with our human, physical and data space.
We worked a lot all the weekend before to finalize our researches a […]

Dear CHIC Community,

as others have already said, time is ticking.

Next week is already time to present our opportunity space and decisions have to be made.

During the last meeting we decided to drop to spaces that we were very keen on, food-waste in supermarkets and the relationship between heat and loss of productivity. Running interviews we discovered most food is already donated to ch […]

Dear CHIC members,

This week was pretty fruitful for TΨ:

We gathered various insights to refine our opportunity space, interviewing different kind of people in their own environment. Working as pairs or alone, we managed to discover some aspects of our problematic we didn’t expect. We chose to focus on quality rather than quantity, as we were exploring and collecting some data. Quantity w […]

Dear CHIC community,

since the article of last week, a lot happened. We started by going back to town last Saturday to interview more people and we captured a broad range of really interesting insights to work with.

Everybody met then on Monday at Nan’s beautiful house to share the insights we collected and start a first converging process. It was also important for us to share a meal togeth […]

Last Research Sprint!

Hi everyone!

These last days have been intense, REALLY intense. As you know, next week we have our first milestone and have to present our opportunity space. So we spend the we […]

Dear readers,

Last Wednesday evening we had our first photoshoot with the team, which was a first for some of the team members.  While being challenging to pose in front of the camera, we ended up having a good time. The shooting took place at the Grand studio at the Ecal which was an amazing opportunity for the rest of the group to discover a bit of the Ecal’s world.

Building a strong and clea […]

It’s friday night, it’s VUKOVI day, it’s cold, and Ethan welcomes us at home.

Up in his tower, the young man has got all the ingredients to treat us like we deserve after a hard week: avocados, tomatoes, sour cream, spicy minced beef with bacon in it, and fresh tortilla bread.

The hondurian tacos and the fine beers got us laughy and borderless.

It was time to react.

After a long and ex […]

Dear readers,

All the team is really busy, but we finally find a moment to write you about our progress!

Last week stand the pitching workshop which was a great opportunity to learn some major skills for the rest of our journey. We now see clearly what a good pitch should be and we are all focus to get as close as possible to impress our future audience.

Later this week we had a great meeting t […]

Hi everyone!

On Monday, we had a pitching workshop with Benedict Stalder (CTI coach) in our usual BC building at EPFL. This evening was really helpful to prepare ourselves for the MS1.

First, we came up with the structure of our pitch: 1. Start with Empathy, 2. Give some facts for credibility, 3. Communicate our progress.

Then, we received some tips to improve it (What is the real goal behind? […]

Another week, another workshop!

This week has started with a new workshop to prepare us to pitch our opportunity space at the end of the month.

The difficulty in these exercises arise when we had to present what we are going to pitch and at the time we are still in a “dig broader” phases of research and nothing has been really decided yet.

But thanks to the good advice and the help of Mr. Bened […]

Hello everyone, welcome on this week’s blog post.
Do you know what SUCCES stands for? We didn’t either before having attended this monday’s (November 12th) pitching workshop.
As Benedict taught us […]