Hi readers,

Our team is currently investigating whether a connected teddy bear would have a place to be loved and cuddled, either at home or in hospitals.

To understand the type of data that our piece of fluff should be able to retrieve, the team is moving heaven and earth to get interviews. Specialists from the pediatric and rehabilitation services could more clearly shape its reason to exi […]

As we all are on holidays some of the team members couldn’t come to this meeting. Kevin managed to be present via Skype which is also a great way for communication!

Sandra started with a very important feedback, the one of our first prototype “WORKING” (image on the last blog post). By using it at her office w […]

Dear CHIC Community,

The team #5 from Fribourg wasn’t very active until now, but this is over !
“Team #5″… What an impersonal name ! This is because we have not yet finalized the choice of our CHIC project.

We are on-board since a couple of weeks, more or less one month, but for sure nobody knows who we are !

So let us introduce ourselves : we are 6 young and motivated students […]

End of the semester, Christmas, New Year’s celebrations, upcoming exams, holidays…So many reasons for slowing down on our weekly meetings, but we didn’t !

As Chloe mentioned in the last post, our pivot was quite radical. We liked the idea of « offline » technology and how it could be applied for kids. We came up with the idea of a toy, with no apparent technology. This toy would simpl […]

With Milestone 1 behind us, we needed some time to sit back and reflect on what we had done. The NAPaC One project was developed for a milestone, but none of us felt this project was something we were passionate about. During the past few weeks, we have been brainstorming individually and in groups about what we really wanted to do.

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Hello,

The Christmas Holiday is approaching. We are also busy with many deadlines of courses at school.

On Monday, we attended the Demo day for last year’s projects. In spite of the bad weather in the evening, the presentation room was crowded with people, who were from different organizations and had different professions. It was the attraction of creativity and innovation that brought us h […]

The days before Christmas are always stressful. This year in addition to present purchase and school deadlines we also want to progress within the CHIC project. Amandine, our product designer, created our first prototype to test the use of an interactive office organizer.
The idea is simple […]

Dear CHIC Community,

We’ve been a little bit shy for the past weeks, but we’re back again with a new blog article ! Let’s face it : MS1 was not easy peasy. Bad timing, bad organization, bad everything…but we made it anyways !

Things are moving fast now, and thanks to the feedback on our MS1 presentation and the precious advice from our mentors, we decided to come back on our idea. Don’t ge […]

Last Tuesday we decided to turn our weekly meeting into a less formal meeting. Instead of our regular meeting routine, we had a game night to celebrate Milestone 1. Taking a little break as a team turned out to be a great idea after a very busy milestone week. It did not mean to us just as a fun night, but it was simultaneously a good opportunity to share more person […]

Today marked the start for the 5th team of this year’s CHIC edition: Team Fribourg. Composed of 4 students from the School of Engineering and Architecture of Fribourg, HEIA-FR, as well as two from the School of Management Fribourg, HEG-FR, the team was immersed in a one-day mini-version of the entire CHIC program.

Unlike their peers in Lausanne, they started with an entire day dedicated to quic […]

HELLO CHIC,
 

It’s been a while!

We are still processing the milestone, trying to come up with a new idea, and what better way to do this than to share a meal? This week has been – finally – a less hectic one, and we wanted to allocate some time to enjoy a less stressful atmosphere, and be able to spend time together in a wonderful mood. It’s nice to have moments whe […]