The First Meeting Watch Idea

One of the most exciting and daunting aspects of coming to a new university, whether that be as a fresher or as a new or mature student; is meeting new people. The shear number of people you meet in your halls of residence, from your course as well as teaching staff can be difficult to keep track of.

One particularly embarrassing social situation is forgetting the name of an individual you have met before. The first meeting watch aims to tackle this problem by detecting the movement action of a handshake whilst a discrete on board camera takes a video clip with audio of this first meeting.

The user could then replay the clip at their own leisure to remind themselves of the name and identity of the person they have met.

There are some practical obstacles to over come for this to be a feasible idea however:

• The fact that most people wear their watch on their left wrist whilst they shake hands with their right.
  
• Issues of camera direction to catch the person being met after the wrist moves back to the side of the body
  
• People do not always shake hands when they first meet, this could be overcome by voice recognition activation upon detecting "nice to meet you" or so on.
  

Healthy Student Diet Idea

When coming to University some issues faced by students choosing to cook healthy meals are:

• Limited dietary knowledge.
• Time consuming.
• Little experimentation with new foods.
• Cooking without the correct recipe items - and so students stick to simpler recipes.
  

It is no surprise that fast food is popular amongst students, whether it's after a night out, a microwave meal or from shops on campus. Being bombarded by unhealthy options, little time and a lack of knowledge all provide incentives to eating unhealthy meals.

The Student dietary system is aimed at giving students who wish to change their pattern of eating a chance to do so by providing useful recipes that other students have found useful.

Each recipe will contain simple facts such as how long it takes to prepare, the expected price and nutritional information. Feedback in the form of ratings and comments by other students will help a student make a more informed decision about the recipe.

A monthly schedule of meals(which are basically recipes) will enable students to create a list of ingredients against:

• a specific diet (e.g. vegetarian, vegan, meat eater...),
• nutritional value of recipes,
• or budget.
  

The grocery list could send a text to the user to save writing out lists or even better - ordered over the internet and delivered at a suitable time.

Brainstorming.....

From the group discussion on Wednesday 17th October we formed the following brainstorm of all the issues we could think of, for the topic of issues facing students new to university. The first image is our typed up version, and the second is the original one written down in the discussion. Click on either for a larger image, feel free to add comments if there are any issues we may have missed.