KEY FINDING AND OPPORTUNITY

😲 The study could not prove the effect of social comparison information
on the participants perceived ability to practice more plastic water bottle sustainability.

💡 Future research can be investigated how people are willing to continue to involve themselves with peer social comparison to identify their desire to change behavior.

The experiment was conducted in Google form for seven days. (June 2, 2022- June 9, 2022).

Three participants were asked to share plastic photographs in the I-message group chat whenever they used certain types of single-use plastics; which following;

1. Plastic cups 2. Plastic bags

After sharing the photographs, they filled out a survey that includes the purpose of the use, their feelings after using the plastics, and the reason for it. In result, 18 responses were recorded.

After, each response was sent to the I-message group chat, leading three participants to see others' feelings and the purpose of the usage.

The results showed that Convenience is the prevalent reason for plastic usage (Fig 1).

The results showed that 54.70% participants described feeling of guilty before knowing the peer’s information. But, after knowing the peer’s information, feeling of guilty increased to 74.70% (Fig 2).

Next, I wanted to listen to people who are suffer from Insomnia. I gathered five participants who are suffer from insomnia. I gathered qualitative data then organized it through affinity mapping. Mainly, I focused what’s the causes of poor sleeping and how they are coping with it.

To gather their sleep stories, I asked few questions

1. What does quality sleep means to you?
2. What’re your bad habits that affect your sleep?
3. What do you do when you can’t sleep?
4. What’s external factors distrubing your sleep?

I’ve noticed how they have various internal (Stress) and external (Sunlight and Noise..) causes of sleep deprivation.

When interviewee were stressed, they report coping through smartphone use, especially through  distracting Social Media apps. In my study, all of the participants report using their smartphones before sleep especially,  as a means to escape anxiety or to wind down from the stresses of their day. 

“I wish my sleep routines are fun’’

One of the interesting responses is they all have different sleep practices. Some of them do stretching and others are listening podcast to wind-down and sleep.

I also asked to gather interviewees’ bedroom photographs while asking about their ideal bedroom environment. Some people prefer completely mute settings, while others prefer ambient white noise throughout sleep. They stated that they believe the bedroom environment affects sleep but don’t know what a perfect bedroom environment is.

IDEATION

The Goals for this app are:

01. Optimize bedroom environment through IoT solution

02. Make sleep routine consistent and customizable

03. Reduce smartphone usage

The Features to achieve the goals:

01. Personalize guidance on sleep environment based on the nights that user had the best quality sleep.

02. Suggesting various sleep routines sleep rituals make it consistent with smartphone and IoT alert.

03. Voice control feature helps less rely on a visual phone screen.

1.Increase Visibility of system status

• Based on the peer feedbacks, too many signifiers and information confusing for them to know what's the page about immediately.

• Remove Sleep time and Phone usage sections that disrupts user’s cognitive load.

2. Voice Control

• Sleep data page isn’t intuitive to understand. Tracking sleep data feature is already existing in market.

• Upon feedbacks, Voice control should be a central feature.

• Incorporate tracking sleep data into voice control.

3. User control and freedom

• “Users often perform actions by mistake. They need a clearly marked emergency exit to leave the unwanted action without having to go through an extended process ( Nielsen 1994)”.

• Adding I don’t know button and skip button allows users to control the system.