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A New Year and almost halfway through this year's Innovation projects

5 Jan 2015

As semester one is over and 2015 is here, our 4th year students have just folder their directors chairs away - their mid-term progress videos for 4E5 (Innovation in Product Development) complete. Each team was tasked with making a short video highlighting some aspects of their work to date, and designed to reach out to interested parties such as future students.

 

Team Dromone have a project prompt to design a next generation tractor hitching technology. Following extensive interviews with farmers, Dromone Engineering design staff, equipment sales agents and many others, the team got busy prototyping. Watch the team talk about their reasons for taking this module, and showing their progress to date

 

 

Team Enable have a project prompt to design wheelchair seating that allows for temperature and moisture management. See their various initial prototypes and how they interacted with people in wheelchairs to get inspiration as they work towards their end goal for Enable Ireland.

 

 

Team BeatRobo have a project prompt to re-imagine security/identification tools for the future. Will we need keys, or passports, or payment cards? How can we share information that we need/want to, without compromising security? See how our team members in Trinity and Swinburne University (Melbourne, Australia) have explored the problem space.

 

 

Team SAP have a project prompt to help SAP reach 1 Billion customers. With such an ambitious goal, the team have had to go back to first principles - what kind of fundamental human needs do that many people have? What kind of product or service can generate this kind of reach? See what sort of answers the team have come up with and what the people on the street make of these ideas!

 

 

Team Wayfinder have a project prompt to help people with intellectual disability engage more fully in society. Working with the Centre for Practice and Healthcare Innovation, the team have been looking at tools and services that can help ALL people move around more easily in a world that is often confusing and fast-changing.