SEE-ME Survival Balloon Processbook - Huiying

SEE-ME Survival Balloon DSID 125 PROCESS BOOK HUIYING TAN DSID 125 1

Design Prompt For over 78 years and four generations, UST Brands has sourced and manufactured the finest survival gear and emergency equipment on the market. By maintaining the highest standards in quality and service, UST innovative products have been saving lives since 1936 What types of survival situations can be addressed with more advanced technology and a systems solution approach to the event needs. How can UST position the offering in the market against competitors in a way that they can either lead or be competitive in a market segment.

The time horizon on technology is technology that is viable (able to be put into high volume production) in the next 3-5 years.

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Introduction This project was to identify a need within a survival situation. In the wild, people are miles away from help.

The key to a successful rescue is the time. Signal device allows people show their location and helps rescuer to save the researching time.

My design was to focus on a product that would allow lost people to send signal to rescuer.

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Table of Contents Introduction

PHASE I Group Research How We Research Persona Brainstorming Topic Observations UST Research Market Research Group Conclusion PHASE II Concept Development Storyboard Scenarios Design Direction and Design Goal Market Research Opportunity Matrix Mood Board

PHASE III Design Development Initial conceptualization explorations Design Refinement Stage 1 Mock up Stage 2 Mock up PHASE IV Final Design Final Design Design details The Making Process How to use Final Model In Context

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PHASE I GROUP RESEARCH

Team 5: Brandon Costa, Andi Hutter, Diva Mitchell, Huiying Tan

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Persona Family of four

The target audience of this product will be a family of four that lives in Bay Area.

Specific a relationship between the parents and one of the younger children.

Son,13

Good Student that is active in sports both in school and club sports

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Mother,43

Part time retail store manager with similar outdoor interests

Father,45

Employed full time at Intel as a project manager and an avid outdoor enthusiast

Daughter,15

Honor student who volunteers at local senior center

How We Research Explored topics

Visited BrassPro shop

UST Research

Brainstorming survival situations

We looked at UST products and

We looked at UST market research, design language andCMF

talked to sales person.

Conclusions

Design Opportunities

Analysis

We conducted market research, scenarios uncover insights and design opportunities

Identify issues and problems

We analyzed our major findings

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Brainstorming Topic Survival Situations Leisure activities

Disaster situation

Crime cases

Unpredictable disasters

Sports

Natural catastrophe

Direct attack Zombie attack Alien attack Fire Vandalism Rape Sexual harassment Looting Hostage situation

Diseases Infections Allergic reaction Heart attack Stroke Diabetic shock

Watersports Running Hiking Bicycling Surfing Skiing Camping Diving Parachuting Sky-diving Rock climbing Dancing Skateboarding

Flood Tsunami Hurricanes Tornado Drought Errosion Fire Earthquake Volcano erruption Sand storm

Wildlife

Man caused disaster

Hunting Deep sea fishing Fishing Ice-Fishing Animal Attack

Avalanche Fire Nuclear war Epidemic

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Types of Disaster Natural Disaster

Earthquake

Floods

Tsunami

Tornado

Cyclone

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Man-made Disaster

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Sinking Ship

Air Crash

Road accidents

Industrial accidents

Bomb blasts

Bridge Collapse

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Brainstorming Defining survival Situations

We distinguished 4 types of survival situations:

• Leisure activities where a person moves from a chosen activity into potentially dangerous situations.

• Disaster situation where people are endangered by force majeure.

• Crime cases where people are put at risk by others.

• Unpredictable disasters that are neither necessarily caused by external influences nor predicted, like medical emergencies.

We also need to distinguish between regions, areas and weather conditions:

• Mountains +1000 m over sea level

• Woods

• Ocean and Sea

• Desert

• Snow / Ice

• Air / Space

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Observations We went toBrass Pro Shop and Walmart to look at some UST and survival products on the market.

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UST Research UST has been a survival gear company since since 1936, specializing in camping, hunting, sporting goods, wilderness tools, and outdoor supplies. UST’S language comes across as utilitarian, brightly colored, and rugged.

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Market Research Current Brand on the Market Cold Steel

Gerber

Founded:1980 Focus: Making the strongest, sharpest knives

Founded:1939 Focus: Making knives and tools that combine high quality materials and innovative designs that will stand u to a lifetime of use.

More Prepared

SOG

Focus: helping you prepare for any emergency situation and natural or man-made disaster

Founded:1986 Focus: SOG knives are carried with confidence into the most demanding situation

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COST

Competitive Market Analysis

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Scenario Hiking - Location: Rocky Mountains, Colorado - Survivor: Father age 39, Mother age 39, daughter age 10 - What happened?: While doing a day long hike in the Rocky Mountains, the family got disoriented and can‘t find their way back to camp. They now have to face whatever conditions exist on the mountain for longer than they thought - Dangers: Getting lost or being injured and unable to move, animal attacks, snake bites, sudden storms can strike quickly in the Rockies, experts say that people can survive only 3 hours lost in the snow without shelter - Existing solutions: Survival kits, tents, search and rescue, emergency beacons, GPS, compass, thermal blankets, water purification straws

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Scenario Camping - Location: Rocky Mountain, Colorado - Individuals: Marcus, 30 (photographer) and Macy 26 (travel blogger) - What happened?: Marcus and Macy are hiking and taking pictures in Colorado. Marcus wants to capture some natural landscape, but Macy wants to capture some pictures of the elk to post on her blog. Therefore, Macy follows the elk tracks and loses contact with Marcus. Just after sunset, Macy becomes lost in the forest.

- Dangers: Being injured in the forest, animal attacks, snake bites, hypothermia - Possible solutions: Strobes and lights, mirrors, glow sticks, reflective clothing, whistles, GPS trackers

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Scenario Rock Climbing - Location: Yosemite National Park, El Capitan - Individuals: Mikey, 29 and Stephan, 32 - What happened?: After ascending Little John Pinnacle in Yosemite, an improperly secured haul bag struck Mikey causing a broken arm, ribs and bleeding. Stephan used hiking poles and first-aid gauze to stabilize his broken arm. An improvised and dangerous tandem was rigged up and Stephan endured a painful hour of lowering his suffering friend - Dangers: Lack of first aid, dropping injured friend, bolts coming loose, helicopter could hit rock face while attempting rescue -Existing solutions: Helicopter rescue, help from NPS climbers, manual tandem descent

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Scenario Avalance - Location: Aspen Highlands, Colorado, USA - Survivor: Group of skiers, Man age 43, Woman age 38, Man age 40 - What happened?: A couple was skiing in the Aspens when an avalanche struck. The couple are now trapped under the snow and can‘t get out.

- Dangers: Suffocation, hypothermia, unable to determine which way is up, internal or external injuries -Existing solutions: Avalanche Search & Rescue System, Shovel, Avalanche-dog, GPS-Tag, Warming Pads, Medication

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Group Conclusion 1. Cliffs and rock faces that make great rock climbing pose issues for helicopter search and rescue teams. SAR (search and rescue) climbers may take several hours to reach a stranded climber.

Climbers who experience “whippers� or hard falls, are often shaken up and unable to continue climbing the route.

Rocks can be very hot during the summer, and wet rocks are impossible to climb. Sudden weather changes can trap rock climbers on a cliff.

Opportunity: UST can design products to streamline the search and rescue process. Products that enable a victim to get to a more accessible location for rescue and improved communication with SAR personnel would mean quicker rescue times.

2. There is a large opportunity for UST to design a product that combines a signal device with newer technology. The product should help users to send out a distress signal and make it easier for rescuers to find the person in the dark.

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Group Conclusion 3. Right now there are a lot of high quality products on the market that reduce the risk of injury if caught in an avalanche. From high priced solutions like airbag backpacks that are designed to keep you above the snow and highly precise GPS rescue beacons. Despite this, there are still many avalanche related deaths every year.

The key factor to surviving an avalanche is time. The maximum survival time if you are stuck in an avalanche is around 30 minutes.

The victim must be rescued within this time. But what if there is not enough time to free several victims?

An opportunity is to design a product that successfully gives you more time to survive in an avalanche or one that helps you to dig yourself out. The most promising ways are to ensure oxygen supply and to keep the victim warm as long as possible to avoid hypothermia. In addition, there is potential in the improvement of the rescue process. This can eventually be aided by supporting drones.

4. UST has many products that are meant to be carried in a pack, but they are lacking an apparel section. They also don‘t sell backpacks that act as a survival tool themselves, rather than just a vessel for survival kits. These are two areas that can be further developed to expand UST‘s product range and can bring in more revenue.

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PHASE II Concept Devlopment

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Storyboard

Marcus’s family

They are hiking and taking pictures in Rocky Mountain

Jay sees elk tracks

Jay follows elk tracks and finds elks

Marcus is looking for Jay

After sunset, Jay becomes lost in the forest

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Scenario Thinking Both parent and children will feel panic if they lose contact with each other.

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Insights Search and Rescue operations in national parks are numerous and costly According to the report, published by the Wilderness Medical Society, “ Dead Men Walking: Search and Rescue in the U.S. National Parks from 1992 to 2007 there were 78,488 people involved in 65,439 SAR incidents.

These induded 2,659 fatalities, 24,288 injured or sick people, and 13,212 “saves,” or saved lives. On average there were 11.2 SAR incidents per day at an average cost of $895 per operation. Total cost from 1992 to 2007 was $ 58,572,164

Source: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/26795932_Dead_Men_Walking_Search_and_Rescue_in_US_National_Parks

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Initial Concepts LED Kite - Glowing in the dark - Design for kids

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Initial Concepts

3D Floating image device - Typing text and showing up in the air - Allows rescuers see your signal - Applies 3D floating image tech

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Initial Concepts

Light Bell Glowing stick+ Bell

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Market Research Research current signal device product on the Market.I noticed that inexpensive products are ineffective for users.

Expensive

Ineffective

Effective

Design Opportunity

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Market Research Research current signal device product on the Market

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Design Opportunity After I researched current signal device product on the Market, I found out UST has two collections for signal devices: See-Me and Hear -Me. I think there is an design opportunity to desing for See-Me collection because signal devices are very limited.

What is the next signal device product for UST Brand?

See-me

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Design Direction and Design Goal • Create a product that helps rescuer to locate user.

•Easy to use •Design for family •All components of design will work for parents and children.

• Waterproof • Lightweight • Compact • Safety • Affordable

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Mood Board

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PHASE III Design Development

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Initial Concepts Children GPS Watch - Tracking location

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Initial Concepts Mini walkie talkie

Walkie Talkie

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Initial Concepts

Balloon arm holder

Direction

Balloon Shooter

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Components Study According to my research, balloon, LED light, groove, valve, body portion, o’ring, helium and spool are the main components for my design.

At this stage, I figure out how to connect these component together, but the spool is unsolved.

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Stage 1 Mock ups In this stage, I tried to figure the size of my product.

Concept 1:

Concept 2:

Concept 3:

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Form Development

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Balloon Design

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Partline Explorations

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Material Explorations

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Stage 2 Mock ups In my stage 2 Mockups, I was focued on texture and the form.

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Mock ups

Final Direction 3D print testing

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Refinement In order to solve the composion of spool, I move my spool to the middle. I also design a helium cap. I want my helium is replacable.

Helium Cap

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PHASE IV Final Design

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Final Design Sketch

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Orthographic

R 1.5 inch

0.85inch 0.8inch 4.3 inch 2 inch 7.8inch 3.6inch

2.4inch

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Exploded View

Lid

Injection Molded Polycarbonate

Specialty Balloon 30�

Mylar

Groove Injection Molded Polycarbonate

Spool String 40ft

Valve Helium Cap Injection Molded Polycarbonate

Replaceable UST HELIUM Steel

Base

Injection Molded Polycarbonate

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Carabiner Ring

Design Details

Snap fit

Cross Section

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How to Use

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Hold vertically

Cap is placed onto bottom of See-Me

Remove seal sticker on balloon and string

Twist groove to inflate the balloon

Once balloon inflated and adjust the string.

Flying in the air

The Making Process In this project, this is my first time to use 3D printer to print out my part. My first failure because my wall thickness is too small. I learned my first 3D printing experience.

3D Printing

Got my parts

Sanding

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Final Design

• The compact design of the product allows user can attach to backpack, put into water bottle pocket and storage in First Aid Kit.

Attachable to backpack

• The balloon and UST helium gas is replaceable. It can maintain up to 6 hours.

Storage in first aid kit

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Thank you for your time

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