HCDE 503: Wk 4 - Food Insecurity Research Progress

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In Week 3 in class, we were introduced a design approach.
Think about Design Audience and come up with a Design Argument. 
The suggested steps are as follows:

 (1) Pre-disposition
(2) Observation
(3) Insight
(4) Concept
(5) Implementation

 It was very helpful to help our team clarify thoughts. 

 We did this exercise together in class as a team.







We made progress on our design argument: 
Our group is interested in Seniors  with Food Insecurity. 
(1) Some pre-dispositions: 
- They are on fixed income
- Not eating the right thing
- Hard to be excited about eating because they are alone all the time
(2) Some design concepts:
- Financially :    
Start young, how to educate future generate to plan for retirement and financial planning ?
Could we help seniors to create value? Any sources of passive channels for additional income in which they can still contribute to society? 
- Socially : 
Could we pair up seniors with another general group, such as millennial ?  How can they mutually benefit in this relationship ? 

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