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IOT Hurdle Track | Get instant feedback while you jump and improve your hurdle skill.

Overview

BACKGROUND

Personal training is essential for athletes. However, it is difficult for them to get helpful feedbacks as they don't have their coach watching them. Therefore, I decided to make an IOT sports product which can be their 24-hour coach.

I chose the hurdling as my topic as I always wanted to be the best on it since I was in the middle school.

TEAM

Alone; Personal Project

MY ROLE

Research, Product Design, Wireframe, HI-Fidelity, Motion

Get to Know

My target audience was the youth hurdlers(age 19~27) who are in medium experience levels(2~3 years). I interviewed three of my future users for 15 minutes.

USER INTERVIEW SUMMARY

WHAT MAKES A GREAT HURDLER?

To be a great hurdler means that the athlete must be able to jump over obstacles with minimum disruption to his velocity. So they don’t jump, they skip through hurdles.

CURRENT HURDLE TRAINING

Hurdle beginners workout hurdle drills under the supervision of their coaches. The coach give feedback with saying, “down! down!” What does he mean?

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COMPETITOR ANALYSIS

Define the Problem

PROBLEM

Inaccessibility: Coach cannot always be with runners
Inaccurate feedback: Coach keep saying, “down!”, but how much down?
Self unaware: Coach is not the actually runner. Runners should learn by themselves

NEED

Need to know whether their jump was good or bad.

Solution

The solution is the IOT hurdle track accompanied with an app. During hurdling, the runners will get instant feedback on their jumps. If they jump too high, the floor part between two hurdles will turn into the red color.