Because of the rare health opportunities and conveniences the Cubicycle offers, we expect to see rapid and substantial improvements within our targeted community (sedentary employees) in terms of weight loss, calories burned, and their time allotted into exercising. However, in order to measure the success of our product we need to survey and collect data that represents the circumstances prior to the implementation of our solution. So, we plan to send out a survey inquiring the current health state of our targeted employees for the employees to answer themselves. The questions may include basic inquiries such as; “Approximately how much time do you spend exercising? Or, How much do you currently weigh?” But evidently, the questions must reflect and collect data that we can contrast with the data we accumulate after the implementation of our aid. Our solution will most definitely have a positive impact on our community, because not only does its give full time working adults the opportunity to achieve the life changing benefits of exercise, but because they can achieve those assets during work without sacrificing their obligations or allotting a dedicated period of time to exercise. This eliminates abundant amounts of stress and insecurities within average employees, increasing their ability to retain and remember information, focus, their emotional and energetic state, and their sense of self worth, and therefore our product creates an immensely positive impact not only in our target community but in society as well... Written by Addison Moss The Cubicycle offers and abundance of benefits surrounding both mental and physical health as well as quality of work, consciousness, and general state of mind. Not only does our patented invention render the invaluable benefits of exercise, but it allows full time working employees to achieve these benefits without having to sacrifice their responsibilities, obligations, and or engagements. The solution rather enables adults to obtain a healthful amount of exercise while simultaneously completing their sedentary work, and the Cubicycle’s seamless design creates no distractions with its silent wheel and pedal rotations and . Exercise is arguably the most affective thing in terms of maintaining both mental and physical health, offering the cognitive opportunities to improve one’s memory, focus, capacity to work harder, ability to think, emotional state/ mood, energy level, and general happiness, as well as physical benefits such as maintaining a healthy weight, improving the internal body systems ability to operate and thrive, and greatly decreasing the body’s likeliness to catch and harbor disease. By simply moving the body, you achieve rare yet everlasting, protective, and immediate health benefits. However countless amounts of working employees suffer from a frighteningly detrimental lack of exercise because when working approximately 8-9 hours a day not including other responsibilities/ engagements (such as children, family responsibilities, etc.), it is difficult to dedicate a specific period of time to exercise, and along with that is a general lack of motivation to exercise. However, a lack of exercise is displayed throughout one’s life in almost every endeavor, whether it’s the insecurity and lack of confidence due to one’s weight and body, or underlying guilt of not being healthy, or pessimistic and cynical attitude, or even lack of ability to focus and therefore reach the potential of one’s work ethic, there are countless things that a lack of exercise can create and hinder. What’s interesting and extremely unique about the Cubicycle, is that it aids all of these issues, allowing adults to achieve exercise simulating what a stationary bike offers, while working... Written by Addison Moss Although we slightly altered the design of our solution, its implementation and the community we are targeting remains the same, and we still plan to apply our design into an ordinary office along with a competitive factor, which is elaborated on on the Home page. After the minuscule modifications, our design allows the user to obtain a full range of motion in their lower appendages and accommodates all leg lengths/ heights. The design also offers an adjustable resistance to increase or decrease the level of difficulty the apparatus offers, and provides a pedometer to measure both the calories of which the user has burned, and the distance they have traveled in miles. The actual design of our solution is similar to a stationary unicycle, constructed of a bicycle wheel and two metal pedals, the Cubicycle adheres to the underside of a desk by utilizing extremely powerful vacuum suction cups. The wheel and pedals are welded to a metal and adjustable metal rod, which is what the suction cups attach to. As for the implementation of our solution which still contributes greatly to its affect, we still plan to give three of the Cubicycle under desk machines to an ordinary office, (which we have recently contacted, and are eager to utilize our solution) that harbors many sedentary and full time working employees and give them the opportunity to check the apparatus out for their personal use during work hours, for a determined period of time. Each employee that acquires one will by default be entered in an affable competition within the office, measuring the amount of calories each employee burns (in comparison to their total time of use.) This low stake competitive factor will inspire both motivation and assiduity within employees as competition has scientifically be proven to do, and simultaneously allows them to obtain a healthful amount of exercise which has an abundance of benefits. Written by Addison Moss This week, our team worked to revise and perfect the final and best version of our solution by gleaning feedback, making ultimate decisions allowing our design to be unique while still maintaining its purpose, and researching existing solutions and their benefits and detriments. We started by dedicating a day to speak with faculty and peers in order to allow them to voice their concerns perspectives, questions, and possible new additions to our solution. This was extremely helpful because it allowed us to gain a variety of perspectives from our targeted community (sedentary, full time working adults) on the possible success of our solution, and what they individually felt would enable and motivate them to use our product. The general feedback we received was on the actual and physical design of our product, because we discovered that the majority of the faculty had concerns about maintaining leverage over the pedals and the bike without adjusting their seating placement on the chair, and making it inconvenient to reach their desk with their arms. Because we had originally designed our stationary unicycle to be attached vertically under the desk, we reconsidered and developed a slightly different design to better accommodate the convenience and comfort of the costumer by slanted the entire unicycle under the desk to an angle to where the pedals are no longer vertical but rather slanted. This will allow for the user to obtain leverage over the pedals without adjusting and still allowing them to reach their work on top of their desks. Another common concern we encountered with the faculty was the issue that our product may not accommodate all desks, as well as leg lengths/ heights, and may be exclusive. So in response to this, we refined our product to be easily adjustable for any height as well as any dimensions of a desk. This refinement attracts all different varieties of people and accommodates a larger population, making the product more alluring and successful. We tried to accommodate the most predominant concerns we encountered amongst our faculty and peers... Written by Addison Moss This week Marco and I researched on what jobs had the longest work hours. Marco found that according to careersmart.com the jobs with the longest work hours are Agricultural Machinery Driver, who work an average of 61 hours per week. On this website in is written that 86% of truck drivers were obese compare to the general US population where 1/3 obese. We started to think of ways to motivate truck drivers to exercise more often. We also started thinking of ideas of inventions that we could make for truck drivers to exercise. For example we thought of making a foldable gyms, that could go in the back of a truck. We also thought of having gas stations carry weights for truck drivers to exercise while they are at the gas stations. As we were thinking of how to build these machines, we realize that assembling this invention would be much too costly. We then decided to change our focus to adults who are sitting all day at a table in an office.
Addi and Marco researched on https://graphics.wsj.com/time-use/ that Americans have and average of 5 hours and 13 minutes per day of leisure time including on weekends. It is written that people with jobs are working harder on their job. As we did for truck drivers, we thought of ways that we could help employees exercise more frequently. All together we decided to created a machine that was like a stationary bike under a table. This “stationary bike” would be like unicycle attached to a pedal. We also decided to ad a competition factor. Whoever burned the most calories was the winner. By Raphael Our names are Addi, Marco, and Raphael. This is our first blog post of the Challenge Based Learning Project for this year. The whole CBL project revolves around movement this year, so each group has to try and create a solution to that solves a movement-related problem. On the first day we immediately decided to narrow down movement to exercise, and then, after a bit more research between our first couple classes of CBL, we decided to narrow it even further down. We knew that many Americans don’t exercise, and this is mainly because they don’t have enough time for this.
According to careersmart.com, the longest average work hours of any job is that of a Agricultural Machinery Driver, who works an average of 61 hours per week. Marine and Waterways Transport Drivers, Large Goods Vehicle Drivers, and Mobile Machine drivers are all in the top 11. According to NRCME, an estimated 86% of truck drivers are obese. To summarize, we decided to help drivers who sit still for long periods of time exercise. This will include truck drivers, bus drivers, and possibly pilots. We connect to this problem in two different ways. First of all, we live in Los Angeles, where one of the highly used transport systems are buses and planes. Second of all, we tend to use buses often. At my old school, I would take the bus to school every single day, and sometimes I would take it back as well. Written by Marco Reis |
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