Our team was divided into four main sub-teams: hardware, software, research, and presentation. All four teams reported to Austin and we held, on average, two weekly scrum meetings to provide updates on our progress.
To promote our workflow, we used Github for code reviews and our codebase, Trello for task assignment, progression, and tracking, and Microsoft Teams for text communication and online meetings.
Using Trello, we implemented agile methodologies and wrote detailed tickets for everyone's tasks that included a background, specifications, assumptions, acceptance criteria, and story points. This allowed us to clarify what we wanted accomplished in each ticket and also gave us a good method to track time spent.
At Opticane we pride ourselves on our greatly diverse and international team made up of 7 nationalities and multiple degree deciplines.
Austin lead the team; assigned tasks and headed meetings; oversaw software, hardware, and design; and prepared the demo reports and videos.
Iman lead the research front of the project, conducting interviews and quantitative and qualitative analysis. She also worked on our user guide.
Lewis was the main force behind working with Opticane's LIDAR and servo. He also conducted our in-depth literature reviews and wrote most of the website content.
Samuel focused on bringing humans with canes into our Webots simulations, simulating our technical complexitiies, and implementing speech recognition and our website infrastructure.
Yuanting got our mini disc vibration motors working and aligned with our LIDAR data. He also contributed greatly to our user guide.
Ioana 3D modeled Opticane's handle and custom grips, wrote our detailed ethics reports, and worked on the website.
Shaoqing designed our logo, created our design guide, made posters, and 3D modeled custom grips for Opticane.
Wazeed experimented with facial recognition.