Summary
Research Synthesis Design Solution

Synthesis

Location, Sensors, Kiosks and Design Ideas

 

After Research, we decided to place our Kiosk in a grocery store like Whole foods. People who go to such a grocery store are interested in freshness, 'green'ness and local nature of the products they buy. They are also more inclined to go to these stores because they value the experience and are not just focused on getting in and getting out as soon as possible.

The Kiosk would be placed in multiple locations in the store.

We came up with several ideas for the kiosk:

  1. Shelves as the kiosk
  2. Cart Kiosk
  3. Standalone kiosk

We also thought of sensors that we could help us implement our kiosk ideas and we thought of fingerprint or face recognition, scanning labels, RF ids, sensors that could identify food ingredients (say brocolli).

From our research we noticed 4 themes we could work with:

  • Beyond the Label
  • Eating Healthy
  • Green and Social Consciousness
  • Making choices

BID 2009 . Human-Computer Interaction Institute . Carnegie Mellon University