In those days, my project go into the research process. I learned about research method and have some things done.
Research background
Because I have engineering class at class, and we focus on the problems of chairs. So that I really often focus on chairs. Then, I find sedentary problem was often mention by people, but no solution.
Then, I have the idea to solve sedentary problem. First, I open Taobao app to find some product also want solve this problem. The odd thing was, all of products are make you sitting more comfortable, not make sure you won’t sitting in a long time. I told this idea to Miss Ren, she also think this is a great idea, and better than Luggage one, more suitable for me to solve.
I think about a design which I have seen it long ago, it will reduce water resources. They use a material which meet water then expend on one of a wall in your shower place. Once you shower use long time, this material meet much water, this material will expend the place to you can’t turn your body, so you must stop shower and leave. The logic in this design is let you not comfortable to stop the behavior.
Including this logic, I have the first idea of product of sedentary. The solution is a cushion that have some thing can rock your bottom, so you cannot continue to sit on the chair. About is this idea can truly solve the problem, I want to make a detail research.
Research users
I choose two kind of people, one is junior high school student to undergraduate students, 12-22 years old, two is young office worker, 23-35years old.
Research methods
I decided use three methods to do the research: User observation, user interviews, media resources.
1、user observation ：
I choose 10 persons of my target user (5students, 5 occupied people), observe time of they sit, and how long did they change their sitting pose.
2、User interviews：
I choose 10 persons of my target user (5students, 5 occupied people), talk to them face to face or online.
Those are questions I prepared.
How do you think sitting affects your body？
How long do you usually realize you’ve been sitting for a long time from you sitting down？
Does your body have pain caused by sitting for a long time？
How much do you want to change this question？
What have you done to solve this problem？
Interview record:
Those are my persona of my target user.
- 16 years old, student, 8-9hours class per day, 10min between each class, 4hours home work
- 17 years old, student, 8-9hours class per day, 10min between each class, music major, 2h homework, 2h piano.
- 16 years old, student, 7+hours class per day, 5min between each class, always stay late for play game or do homework.
- 19 years old, student, 6+hours class per day, 10min between each class, stay late 4 days average each week to do homework.
- 24 years old, office worker, 8hours work per day, do some sport at home after work.
- 25 years old, office worker, 9hours work per day, During working hours (9:00-12:00, 13:00-19:00), he will not leave his seat and will directly ask for any information on WeChat.
- 20 years old, student, 6+hours class per day, always stay late for play games and do homework, lots of poor posture.
- 22 years old, office worker, 9hours work per day, play basketball after work.
- 30 years old, office worker, 8hours work per day, but always overtime, lay down after back home, because of so tired.
- 34 years old, office worker, 8hours work per day, but there are 2 days will be in outside.
This is my interview draft, in really brief expression.
3、 Media resource
Use Bing Academic and Google to find authoritative health websites and search for “sitting” data, and my goal is no fewer than 10 websites.
resourses:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2996155/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7700832/
https://blog.vantagefit.io/sedentary-lifestyle/
https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/features/do-you-have-sitting-disease#1
https://medlineplus.gov/healthrisksofaninactivelifestyle.html
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31221536/
https://extension.unr.edu/publication.aspx?PubID=2924
Results
User obsevation: 10 participants were observed, the average sitting time was 1.75 hours, the maximum sitting time was 3 hours, and 8 participants changed their sitting position after 1 hour of sitting time.
User interview: 10 people were interviewed online and offline. 80% of them knew that sitting was a serious problem and 20% of them took effective preventive measures. 80% of students do not feel sedentary, and 100% of office workers have a more serious problem with sitting; Fifty percent of people experience discomfort from sitting for long periods of time
Analysis of media data: Sitting for long periods of time, with no positive reports, is associated with the following diseases (lumbar disc herniation, obesity, accelerated aging, cardiovascular disease, increased risk of cancer, reduced muscle strength, reduced reaction time, hypertension, etc.)