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# First Team Meeting Worksheet
![image](https://i.imgur.com/Np0CG2A.jpg)


## Team Members Present
* Annie Qiu
* Elizabeth Frey
* Rheanna Toney
* Eunice (You-Chi) Liu
* Alina 


## I. Identify a Common Vision
*You’ve all voted on a common idea and themes. Now is the time to work through your commonalities and find a unifying vision between all of you. Answer the following for each of you.  This is the time to speak your mind.  Be honest with each other.*
### Commonalities
*Who makes up your team?  What are some common things you are interested in? Tell each other about the things you put down on the survey and expand on some of your passions.*
- we all are strong advocates of mental health awareness
- we all struggle with busy schedules and setting aside time to take care of ourselves
- interested in digital arts and design
- mental health research

### Inspiration
*What are some things each of you is inspired by?*

- beautiful design, pleasant interfaces
- promoting mental health 
- being calm

### Problems of Interest
*What problems are you looking to address? Why?*

- dartmouth students have a difficult time prioritizing mindfulness or wellness activities with their busy schedules
- hard to find a therapist in Upper Valley
- mental health is a campus wide concern, and often times people don't know how students around them are doing
- it's hard for students to take care of themselves and prioritize taking care of themselves, but students often want to look out for their friends
- hard to find time to go outside
- not that much conversation surrounding mental health
- really hard to tell other people that you're sad or not feeling well
- google calendar scheduling can be overwhelming to look at (seeing that you have no space out)
- students will prioritize getting their work done over anything else like socializing, staying healthy, eating healthy

Why: Mental health is clearly a problem on college campuses, and working to improve it is important.

### Identify
*Which of the above is most interesting to all of you?*

- scheduling/calendar systems are stressful with busy schedules but are necessary for students to keep track
- it's hard for students to take care of themselves and prioritize self care, but students often want to look out for their friends or will put more care in taking care of something else



## II. Narrow In
*Now let's try narrowing in on a problem that interests all of you. Make sure to go around and listen to everybody on your team without interruption.*


### Problem Statement
*State the problem you want to solve succinctly.*

Dartmouth students are unable to managage their stressors and prioritize their wellbeing with their busy schedules. 

### Rephrase
*Try to rephrase the problem statement (negative) as an opportunity (positive). Word it as a question beginning with, “How might we…?”*

How might we encourage student to prioritize their wellbeing during busy times?

### Reframe
*Reframe the question in at least 5 different ways to change the question fundamentally or imply a different solution set.  Try changing scope, or audience, or technology.*
1. How might we help students schedule their time in a way that prioritizes their wellbeing?
2. How might we make calendars less stressful and overwhelming?
3. How might we help students check in on their friends' wellbeing while respecting their privacy? 
4. How might we create a fun and interactive way for students to take care of themselves by taking care of something else?
5. How might we visualize or represent our campus' collective mental health in a productive way?

### Choose
*Are any of the reframes more interesting?  Choose one.*

(We chose both because one talks about the goal and one talks about the method)

- How might we create a fun and interactive way for students to take care of themselves by taking care of something else?
- How might we help students schedule their time in a way that prioritizes their wellbeing?

#### Coolness
*What could be cool about this potential project?*

Technical
- working with UI to create a fun way to interact with something else
- integration with calendar to find free times
- potential for data analysis - research potential?
- design possibilities!
- pet NFT? or pet customization in general

Non-technical
- addresses an issue important to use
- having a digital pet is cute
- incuding your friends 
- create a digital platform that's not meant to be too addicting, for your wellbeing

#### Challenges
*What could be challenging / unfun about this potential project?*

- figuring out what's actually useful in improving mental health
    - figuring out what features are MOST important for us to implement in order for our product to be successful


#### Success
*What does success look like for this project?*
- create a platform we would want to use as students that is functional, with minimum bugs, and that requires minimum maintenance 
- something that other people are excited and are able to use (ease of access)
- more and more people on campus start to care about wellbeing not only about themselves but also other
- helps the user prioritize wellbeing in a new and fun way

## III. Survey the State of the Art
*Do some research. Try to find what else is out there that is similar, either products, or technical papers that are related.*

- Calm or Headspace -- apps that provide mindfulness content
- [Finch](https://finchcare.com/): Self Care Widget Pet -- includes a digital pet for people to take care of and nudge people for doing self-care (but doesnt have the calendar features that we are trying to do)
- [Aloe Bud](https://aloebud.com/): self care app that sends reminders to take care of yourself
- [Owaves: Wellness Day Planner](https://owaves.com/): wellness day planner based around your Circadian rythym to encourage you to sleep, eat, exercise

### Similar Goals
*Are there others working to achieve similar goals?*
- Yes, addressing the overreaching mental health issue.

### Differences
*How is your approach different/better than the state of the art?*

- We could not find any mental health apps that directly integrate with your calendar

### Inspiration
*Are there any existing products/techniques/research, that we could, by analogy, draw inspiration from?*
- The aforementioned Finch and Aloe Bud are great inspiration that we can further expand on. 

## IV. Team Dynamics
*And finally, let's think through a couple of team dynamics things as we'll be working together for the next month.*

### Schedule
*Outline a general weekly meeting schedule with at least 1 time that everybody can make. That one meeting must include everyone on the team. A nice tool for this is [when2meet](https://www.when2meet.com/).*
* [Our When2Meet](https://www.when2meet.com/?15628350-IHAan)
* In person: Tuesday 2:30 pm. 

### Responsiveness*
How often should team members be expected to check and respond on Slack?*
* ***often***
* have notifications on
* let other people know if you are going to be offline (like midterms,camping...) and the time that you you will be back

### Group Decisions
*What types of decisions need to be discussed and approved by the entire group?*

* functionality
* overall goal
* what we prioratize working on
* features
* general timeline
* team meeting times
* deadlines


### Individual Decisions
*What types of decisions can be made by a single person?*

* coding style (code structure)
* stylying, UI/design stuff
* individually assigned features
* if confused about whether decision is individual, just slack the group

### Conflict Resolution
*There are three main types of conflict that tend to occur in group projects*
  * *Creative differences: disagreement on any decisions related to the product*
      * Pros and Cons list, group discussion, majority decides

  * *Personal differences: friction between people due to manner or words said*
      * TAs/Tim help, looking at what was said in the Slack Channel, personal reflection


  * *Ghosting: consistent missed deadlines or lack of contribution*
    * create a backup plan for emergency contact (phone) but the major communication is on Slack -- to avoid innocent ghosting 
        * i.e. "Hey did you see the message in Slack?"
    * first reach out to the person on Slack, then text to check they saw Slack
        * Liz: (603) 266-9091
        * Alina:(585) 397-9704
        * Rheanna: (813) 573-1706
        * Annie: (603) 266-7389
        * Eunice: (603) 349-0419
    * if the person doesn't respond to Slack or text, then reach out to Tim/TA
    * for missed deadlines or lack of contribution, first to talk the person, if they still aren't contributing, talk to Tim/TA
    
*Your group should decide on a plan of action to deal with each type of conflict. There can be multiple levels to each plan. Involving the TA's or instructor can be part of it. Try to be specific*
