Team Status Report for 2/11/23

The most significant risks that could jeopardize the success of the project are us not having our design flow fleshed out before the design review. This is why this week we focused on sub portions of each of our tasks. By doing this, when we integrate all our design elements together the system should be more fleshed out than before. This also helps us with contingency plans. Now that each of us are getting a better grasp of the inner implementations of our parts, we can all start thinking of contingency plans specific to our implementations.

No changes were made to the existing design of the system.

Our project includes considerations for health and welfare. The issue goes beyond academia – in a capitalistic system where productivity is often maximised at all costs, including compromising on workers’ health and wellbeing – giving people the ability to make informed choices about eating is an important undertaking. Studies have indicated that for a lot of young people, college years are when they begin struggling with eating disorders. Busy schedules and disordered eating can be a contributing factor. And by being able to see what options they have in the time they have to eat could potentially help mitigate that.