Weekly Status Update #1

Week of February 6

Team Members: Sonia Mody, Talia Smith, Andres Antonio, Evan Zlotnick

Reached out to Zebra and set up a kick-off meeting
- Met their team, introduced ourselves, and learned more about Zebra as a company and their expectations for this project
- Established consistent communication with the Zebra team through email and a new shared Slack channel
Sticking to schedules (weekly meetings, finishing deliverables, etc.)
- Completed Short Project Proposal for in-class presentation
- Revised presentation based on feedback to present to Zebra team
Building an understanding of the project at hand
- Started to research the topic and company as well as started to clarify what gamification means
- Developed a short project proposal to understand the project holistically
Began website-notebook development
- We filled the site with bios as well as placeholders for future weekly updates and deliverables
- Maintained color consistency with Zebra branding

AI/Algorithm conflict from the kick-off meeting
- A brief lapse in communication as we concluded kickoff meeting which created confusion among Tufts team
- We resolved this issue by reaching out to Professor Borghesani as well as Kristina Lembesis
Lack of clarity of project expectations
- The large scope of the project created confusion within the group regarding how we would be able to develop a solution

Defining the scope of our project
- We were confused just how large our target audience was going to be
Designing research approach/strategies

Conduct a lot of research
- Existing gamification techniques
- Method for user research/testing
- Conduct competitive research
Define scope
- Work with Zebra team to narrow scope of project, mostly in regards to the industry our application will be directed toward
Complete developed project proposal