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The CarbonShopper team, consisting of experts from various fields, aims to enhance carbon footprint management through innovative technology. Current tools are inadequate for effectively managing carbon emissions, leading to a lack of awareness among users. Our solution promotes environmentally conscious decisions by automating key tasks, such as product comparisons and progress tracking. We have evolved our design to be more intuitive and user-friendly, utilizing augmented reality to create an engaging shopping experience. Through the app, users can make informed choices to reduce their carbon footprint.
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CarbonShopper Augmented Environmental Technology
The CarbonShopper Team • Dennis Doan - User Testing • Anton Osobov - Developer • Kent Wu - Documentation • Neil Rhoades - Design • Phill Pasqual - Project Manager
Project Introduction • Overall Problem: • Carbon emissions • Carbon footprint management • Current tools are unusable
High Level Solution Carbon footprint awareness Environmentally conscious decisions Automate as many steps as possible
Overview • Representative Tasks • Demonstration • Current User Interface Explanation • Design Evolution - past, present, and future
Representative Tasks • What tasks do we hope to achieve with our application? • Simple task - learning more about an item • Moderate task - comparing items • Advanced task - viewing your carbon progress
Representative Tasks (cont.) • Simple Task • User wants to learn more about an item • The most common way to determine whether an item is "green" or not
Representative Tasks (cont.) • Moderate Task • Quickly comparing items and finding the most environmentally friendly one • Finding the greenest items is the best way to make environmentally sound choices
Representative Tasks (cont.) • Advanced Task • Tracking your progress over time • Difficult to track through traditional means
Current UI Features • Helps user make green shopping choices • Displays individual product information • Includes product comparison interface • Supports progress tracking • CarbonScore per shopping trip
What’s Missing Augmented Reality Glasses Data source Object Recognition
Video of Prototype Prototype In Action
The Evolution of Our Design • Our initial design • What changes we made • Why we made those changes • What's next?
At First... • Heavily relied on physical contact • A lot of information • Ambiguous scales • Ugly
And Then... • Hard to simulate AR with low-fi prototype • Users interacted with objects "tablet style" • Overwhelmed by amount of information
The Final Product • Simplified design • More intuitive controls • Multiple ways • More Images
Ideas For Enhancement • Eliminate motion • Smart suggestions • Not bound by screen resolution (576)
Summary • Uncharted territory • Unique solutions
The Road Ahead Augmented reality can revolutionize HCI