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Greenfun
GREENFUN
AR
Spring
Summer
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The Language of Flowers
Pure
Expectation
Plants info
Temperature
Humidity
Light
20 ~ 29 ℃
60 ~ 70 %
6k~11k Lux
Adopt
Share
Comments
Watering frequency (A week)
3 days
Echinopsis
Echinopsis is a large genus of cacti native to South America, some-times known as hedge-hog cactus, sea-urchin cactus or Easter lilycactus. One small spe-cies. E. chamaecereus,is known as the peanut cactus.
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Aloe Vera
Completed
4/10
Gasteria
Completed
4/10
Devil's Ivy
Completed
4/10
Louis Savukke
Young and passionate plant hoder
Information
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SEEDS
FOLLOWING
FOLLOWERS
My plants
Map
Steps
Ranking
Greenfun
Problem Definition
1
Behavioral Mapping
2
Field Research
3
Brainstorm
4
Storyboard
5
Design and iteration
6
Background
Current Situation
Loughborough University has many kinds of trees and plants on the campus. In addition, there are some biodiversity activities in school, However, many people do not really notice them much or they might have interest in them but do not have related information. So, this is where the concept starts.
Information is not attractive
Location is not clear
People lack activity infomation
Field Research
Experience Map
Field Research
Strengths
1. Hold activities every year
2. Visitors can interact with bees through whole process
3. Professionals who will explain the process
1. Time is too short to learn
2. People don't interact much with each other
Weaknesses
Bee Hive
Strengths
1. Different kinds of animals bring
a lot of fun
2. Freely browse in the area
3. You can put an animal on your hand
1. Time is flexible
2. Some people are afraid to touch animals
Weaknesses
Zoo Campus
Strengths
1. Get to know the whole area
2. Learn the names of many plants
3. Explain in detail
1. People don’t interact much with each other
Weaknesses
Fruit Route
Interview Finding
"People would like to stop when they meet something they are interested in." P2
77%
"Most of participants, from the activity, get there with one or two friends."
67%
"If there is nothing special about particular plants or animals, then there would be no interaction for participants ." P3.P4.P5.P8
67%
"There are some interesting plants but I even do not know there are here." P1
89%
"Participants did not know about the school activity information, so they missed the chance to join the activity." P4
56%
Parties
Parties
Parties
Wifi
Notification
Alert
Area
Fancy animals
Task
Happiness
Social media group
AD
Volunteers
Cosplay
Notice
Workshop
Attention
Board
Competition
Commencement Day
Platform
Enjoyment
Social
Signs
AR
VR
Photos
Show
Societies
Bring
friends
Interaction
Campus zoo
Reward
Service
Enjoyment
Social
Interaction
Provide beautiful
photos o show
Encourage people to
bring more friends
Make some plant
games to attract
people
Give people some
reward
Invite students to join fancy games
Invite students to join
plant workshop
Encourage people to explore school
To advertise
biodiversity
activity
Use some tasks to
gather people
Provide virtual
interaction
Provide some
interesting signs
Hire some student
volunteers
Brainstorm
Persona
Flow Chart
Sustainability
Office
Welcome Email
Start
Landing page
Sign In
Sign Up
Edit profile
Welcome tips
Homepage
Notification
Home
Map
Camera
Garden
Me
News
Events
AR
Information
Adopt
Comment
Add people
Watering
Exchange
Plant info
Watering
Get seeds
Attend
Events
Walk more around the campus
Exchange
flowers/potting
Storyboard
Alberto is a master student who
come from China. He is new to this
university so he is unfamiliar with
surroundings.
Sometimes he feel the
pressure of schoolwork,
but he didn’t how what to
do.
He think about nature and
friends, so he use the app to
check the activity and invite
friends with similar interests
to participate in the activity.
In the activity, they all happy
and became friends and got
close to nature. He get rid of
tired and feel relieved.
After finishing the activity, he
also get 3 seeds.
As he collect plants and gain
interesting knowledge of
plants, he also become more
motivated to explore the
campus.
The recording show he is
walking 10000 steps in one
week on the campus and he get
1 seed.
Finally, he reach the goal of
seed exchange, so he use these
seeds to exchange a real plant.
When he pass by the special
flower area do not notice the
board at all.
At this time, the App have been
installed on the phone according to
sustainability office welcome email
informing him that there are some
cactus nearby.
He takes out his phone to interact
with the cactus in AR, watches it
change in different seasons,then
adopts the plant.
He waters the plant regularly, and
gets the tips from that. The tips are
about planting knowledge and
living life on campus.
One day the adopted plant is
mature. And he get 1 seed.
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Design Evaluation
High Fidelity
BEFORE
PROCESSING
AFTER
Give people more information about area and app
Tag more plants
Make the exploring
progress
interesting
Make the adopt
progress and check it
later easy
Let users get useful tips for
watering
Let users attend and invite
people easy, make some
task get users together
Make the excahnge
progress easy to
understand
Make the excahnge
progress easy and one key
to share to social media
Events
Watering
Adopt
Identify
DIscover
Awareness
Share
Exchange
Touchpoints
Stages
Doing
Thinking
Feeling
Emotional
Experience
Opportunity
Tagged plants
AR and Picture
Recognition
Smartphone
Smartphone
Event friends
Social media
Talk to friends
Plant store staff
What is nearby environment look like?
Is it an App advertisement?
Does anyone else use it?
Is it useful forliving on surrounding?
Should I go to the area to have a look?
Could AR bring interesting things?
Can it recognise the plant correctly?
How many kinds of plant could I adopt?
I want to know how others see this plant?
I would like to share the plant with my friends.
It is good to get planting and living tips of school.
Looks interesting, i wanna adopt more.
I would like to know more and see other poeple’s
adpoted plants.
Make friends is a good way to exclude loneliness.
I would like to exchange a plant with good looking.
I would like to know more about exchangeable plants.
I want to tell more friends and let them bring up a plant
with me.
Receive invitation email from App before going to the area
Use camera to scan the
plants and AR to see the
plants change
Adopt the different kinds of
plants,frequently and get tips from that
Take part in different
biodiversity activities.
Make friends.
Use the credit to exchange
the real plants.
Share the experience to the
friend circle.
Share the adopted plants
on the social media and talk
to friends.
Behavioral maps are used to observe the interaction between the participants and the plants around the area. In addition, through the records of different people's surveys, we can find out what attracts participants on surrounding.
Go and adopt your virtual plants!
AD
Arouse people's concern for the environment and nature, fostering awareness of caring for plants in interesting ways!
Research
Flow Design
Prototype
User Testing
My Role
Loughborough University
Project for
Sustainability Office of LU
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