UX Project Final Presentation:

�🚲 MTB Status 🚲 ⛰️

• Dylan The Villain Lang • Jack Hou
• Yash Chandrani • Sumedh D Patkar

Imagine a scenario

You go on a Mountain bike ride with your friends

Imagine a scenario

There’s an Emergency!

• Bike Falls off
• You get injured
• You are bleeding!
• Friends have already gone ahead

MTB Status - An emergency solution for mountain bikers

Research Phase

Surveys, findings

Yash Chandrani

Survey - Motivation

We wanted to understand

• Demographics information
• Frequency of going on Mountain Bike rides
• Technologies used for assistance
• Suggestions for features

• Methods of trail discovery
• Riding preferences (Solo? Groups?)
• Problems faced

Survey - Questions

Created a Google Form

• Gender, Race?
• How frequently do you go MTBing?
• Do they use any technologies?
• Do you have any suggestions for features?

• How do you discover a trail?
• How did you get into Mountain Biking?
• Do you ride in groups?

Survey - Responses

Summary of Responses

• Many people ride in Groups
• Trianglemtb - Most used for discovering trails and checking status
• 80%+ people plan ahead for rides

• 62% people go on the same 5 trails/loops every time
• 62% people found “Unforeseen obstacles” the biggest problem on a trail

Survey - Responses

Summary of Issues

• Issues people encounter
• Flat Tire
• Injury
• (Big) Obstacle
• Trail harder than anticipated

Generate and Choose Phases

Jack Hou

Ideas - Generate

Ideas - Choose

List and Voting

• We listed out many ideas
• 6 were shortlisted
• 2 were finalized
• Trail status (Open? Closed? �Traffic level?)
• Reinforcements (Emergency SOS)

Ideas

Storyboard

• Thinks of Mountain Biking
• Finalizes trail
• Texts his friends
• Adds Emergency Contacts
• Falls
• Sends SOS signal
• Gets Help

Prototype and Demo

Dylan Lang

Prototype

Figma Demo

Evaluation Overview

Participants

• All of our participants were mountain bikers for 5+ years
• Most of them were from Raleigh, one from Charlotte and Greensboro each
• All of them had faced an injury at least once while MTBing

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Evaluation Overview

Experience

• Generally positive feedback
• The overall usage of the prototype was clear
• Users fairly understood the possible functionality at first glance
• Some had trouble and confusion in adding emergency contacts flow

Suggestions received

• Automate SOS alert using phone’s accelerometer
• Send suggestion to everyone nearby (enable with permission)

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Thank you

Questions?