Designing With Web - Part 3: week 1

Encourage hiking experience for kids based on gaming

Group "21"

Maps:

Project 1 : HIKIDS

Context

when? where? who? why?

Nowadays, technology has a lead role in our societies. In fact, children grow up in an ultra-connected world and their relationship to nature is therefore weaker. Virtual Reality games have replaced family activities such as hikes and walks. It is our duty to help younger generations to reconnect with nature.

As reported by studies, on average, children today play outside for just over four hours a week, compared to 8.2 hours a week when the adults questioned were children.Furthermore,as urbanisation expandes, outdoors activities become less accessible, worse, sometime less attractive. Kids need to spend time in nature at least, that's the Child mind institute's conclusion. According to the study, "The national panic about kids spending too much time indoors has become so extreme that the crisis has a name: Nature deficit disorder. Thus, it seems that getting children outdoors as become a major challenge for parents. Is there an outdoor activity more connected to nature than hiking ? How to make it more entertaining and attractive for kids?

Target

for whom?

Even tough our application is designed ke them enjoy their hiking exoperienc, our first targets will definitly be parents, adults willing to experience hiking with their kids or children in general.Thus, our economic model will definily depend on them.

Service offered

what? how?

Regarding facts, the purpose of our application is to allow parents to prepare and select the hiking experience they want their families to have with an access to a digital map, on wich different hiking trails will be avaible. Moreover, on each trail they will have access to a list of games adapted to the environment of the hike.

Identity

describe the universe around your service by creating a mood board and name your service accordingly

Benchmark

List concurrents / relative projects and describe how they relate/differentiate to your project

There are currently two types of competitors for our application: blogs and other application. Here's a list of the main ones.

Project 2: Hikepedia

Context

when? where? who? why?

Imagine an app that allows you to identify the wildlife surrounding you during you hike, an app that educates you and your children in a fun way, without needing Internet service.

Target

for whom?

Our main target is families willing to go on hikes.

Why?
Hiking with your kids can really be a pleasant and fulfilling experience. But they have shorter legs, faster metabolisms, and a limited attention span, which means that if you want to keep enjoying your hike, you need to keep them entertained ! Remeber that a happy kid means a happy parent, and an all the more pleasurable experience !

Service offered

what? how?

It is very simple, just create one account per family to discover a new way to enjoy hiking with kids.

Operation:
All you have to do is take a picture of a natural element you wish to indentify, be it an animal footprint, a flower or a mineral. The app does the rest, by comparing your picture to the encyclopedical database included. When your picture matches one in the database, you get all the information you could wish for ! What's more, it works like a real-life hiking Pokédex™ : all of your pictures are stored as achievements, and you get hiking badges when you reach a number of pics !

Price:
It is free to all users, there is no fee to be charged. (A little bit of advertisement, only hiking-related)

Identity

describe the universe around your service by creating a mood board and name your service accordingly

Benchmark

List concurrents / relative projects and describe how they relate/differentiate to your project