Monday, March 31, 2008
Lifestyle.Check Elevator Speech
I have created a proposal for the development of a new software application. It is a productivity tool that offers decision support to the re-occurring question we ask ourselves "What should I wear?". This is a consequential decision virtually everyone must make everyday that affects how we are perceived by others, and most importantly how we perceive ourselves. To make the right decision we have to think about about what we are doing, what the weather conditions are, what we have to wear, and how we can put it together. All theses possibilities can often become innumerable and overwhelming. Lifestyle Check (LC) is a digital lifestyle management system that offers an innovative solution to this decision-making process. You can create a virtual wardrobe complete with photos and detailed product descriptions simply by taking a photo of the tag of what you just bought, and Lifestyle Check will do the rest. The application will produce personalized Lifestyle Reports advising you on what to wear when, based on your calendar, local weather, what you have, what looks good together, your preferences, and related trends.
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It sounds like it would require allot of time/effort for the user to create a virtual wardrobe, even if the system is highly automated. What if the user wanted a Lifestyle Report with out creating a virtual wardrobe? Obviously the report cannot suggest specifically what you could wear based on what you have, but could it still produce a report solely based on your profile and the weather?
Yes, Lifestyle Reports can be produced with out a virtual wardrobe. In fact, Lifestyle Reports can be produced with out any user information. However, without information about he user, the report can not determine what information is most relevant to the user. Therefore, the reports would be based solely on the most popular trends. If the user has a profile, but no virtual wardrobe, the reports can be relevant to the users preferences, but it is up to the user to decided how detailed they want to get. If a user only set color preferences, then the report could only provided generalized trend information that may or may not be relevant to the user. If the user then sets their local weather, the report would be enhanced by filtering out the results that would not be appropriate for the weather at that time. In essence, the more information you provide to the application, the more relevant the information provided to you will be.
The satisfaction derived from the application is based on the users personal perference. In theory, the user could actually be more satisfied with out a virtual wardrobe, because then they can use the reports to get ideas of what they should purchase. Or if the user prefers to think of combinations on their own, they may value the suggestions of what types of things to wear more than specifically what they have to wear. Lifestyle.Check is designed to work in the way that provides maximum user satisfaction, but it is up to the user to decide what that is.
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