Team Meeting

All team members present.

So today we met up and discussed how we were progressing with our personas. In order to have a similar template to work with, we decided that the following categories would be used when writing about them:

• Name
• Age
• Family - Detail needed here so we can perhaps get into their heads as well?
• Mobility/Health Problems
• Hobbies
• Likes/Dislikes
• Behaviour Patterns
• Average Day in the Life
• Back Story
• Goals?
  

We had a discussion about the personas so far. At the moment, we will have 5, though we thought that this may need to be cut down later if we need too. However, a bonus of having slightly more enables us to compromise better on features, and find an average that will suit many people.
We discussed how we would pitch this product to our personas and thought that there might be a need to pitch it to their families first and then have a seperate, reassuring pitch for the elderly themselves. Due to this, we need to know a bit about their close family so that we could think how to sell it to them.
As a last point we discussed what other features might be useful. Sam came up with the idea that an automatic door sensor that alerts the user when they try to leave the house to any appliances that are still on or opened windows. It was noted that this could be triggered any time the door is open, so we would need to consider this carefully. Another suggestion was that we could have an automatic switch that after a length of time (longer than that the appliance was required for) would turn off appliances as a safety feature.

TO DO:
Finish off and post personas.