Team Status Report for 09/23
Week 4 – 09/17 – 09/24
Our project aims to guide the blind people. When developing the project proposal, we have consideration of positive social factors as well as public health. The guidance recognition system, as a substitute for guide dogs, is a cheaper alternative for blind people. By combining the recognition system with walkers, we hope to bring dignity and convenience to blind people with more accessibility. It is important to consider the effect of our project on society because as engineers, we should always build for social good and welfare. As an underrepresented group, blind people have the right to enjoy the advantages of high technology and modern life.
The risk that could jeopardize the project is whether we can follow the schedule. We are tracking our progress actively for scheduling purpose. This week we already ordered components from ECE. Continency plan is that we can postpone the work after MVP. No change to the design yet.
Weekly Specific Question Answer: As a project whose main users are the blind persons, we consider the safety of our project: More specifically, how our product will perform when there are sudden change in environment that would make our product’s instructions not correct. Thus, we plan to have an emergency protocol. This is important because our clients are vulnerable to environment change and safety is at top priority of our clients.