The team spent this week finalizing our final design report, filming our final video, and creating our team poster. Our presentation is less than two weeks away, and we are gearing up for the big day! We will continue to… Read More
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Preparation for Prototype Inspection Day
The team is back to the grind after the break. This week, team Wayfinder has been working diligently to prepare for the prototype inspection day (March 28th). We are restructuring the code and UI organization for the demo application to… Read More
Work Session with Our Sponsor
Our sponsor visited the team this Thursday and we had a work session together at Reed. During the work session, we showcased our main navigation mechanism and the corresponding developer package. Additionally, we interviewed a visually impaired user to gather… Read More
Package Updates
Hello and welcome back! This week, Team Wayfinder has some exciting, new updates to share. With a 3-hour work session in replacement of our normal class session on Tuesday, the team was very productive and was able to get a… Read More
User Testing and QRB 1 Prep
Hello everyone! This week, the team has completed testing sessions with two of our blind/visually impaired users and was able to gather some valuable feedback and insight into improving our navigation mechanics and prototype. With these tests, we have not… Read More
Testing, Develop, Research
Welcome back! Team Wayfinder is excited to have our first blind user signed up for prototype testing next week. To prepare for the upcoming user testing sessions, the team has fixed a few bugs in the prototype, such as overlapping… Read More
Final SLDR presentations!
Welcome to our last blog post of the semester! For this week’s update, Team Wayfinder is happy to announce that our System Level Design Review (SLDR) presentation to all of our fellow teams and sponsors was successful! We hope to… Read More
Peer SLDR week
Hello again everyone, we hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving break! This week, Team Wayfinder has just finished our Peer System Level Design Review (SLDR) presentations are are working to tweak and refine the prototype in preparation for our SLDR… Read More
Prototype Inspection Day!
Happy Friday everyone, we hope you’ve been having a good week! With the updates and fixes the team has been implementing over the past several days, we are happy to say that Prototype Inspection Day was successful for Team Wayfinder!… Read More
New Updates + Incoming Tropical Storm
Hello everyone! Unfortunately, we are facing another tropical storm this week, with canceled classes on Friday and windy weather outside. However, Team Wayfinder has been continuing to update the demo in preparation for Prototype Inspection Day next Tuesday; this week,… Read More
Blind User Scene Updates
Hello to our readers! Welcome back, and we hope your week has been going well! This week, Team Wayfinder has been working hard on our prototype, and although things are still very basic, we are proud to have been able… Read More
First Prototype in Progress
Hello everyone! It is finally time for PDR presentations! This week, Team Wayfinder delivered a successful PDR presentation to our team coach and liaison, and received valuable feedback toward our project to implement and improve upon. The team was also… Read More
Peer Reviews and Dinner
This week, we had our Preliminary Design Review (PDR) presentations during class and presented it to our peers for commentary and evaluation. This is the first draft of our PDR, so with the feedback that we receive from our peers… Read More
Getting Back on Track
Hello and welcome back! We hope everyone has been able to safely reconnect with friends and family, and send all in the path of Ian our best wishes a quick and smooth recovery. This week, our team was able to… Read More
Hurricane Update
Hello readers! We hope everyone is staying safe and dry in these tough and stressful times, and send our thoughts and prayers to all friends and family in the path of Hurricane Ian. Unfortunately, there are no major updates regarding… Read More
Finding Our Way
Hello and welcome back to our blog! Some new updates for this week: we have finally chosen a name for our team and our team logo! Our team name is now officially Wayfinder! More importantly – this past Wednesday, we… Read More