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Service Design | Product Design | Interactive Design

Interactive Relief Station for Stray Animals

Project Overview

This is an installation and application made with the idea of better adoption procedures for the relief of stray animals.By providing stray animals with food and living environment stably, it builds a reliable platform between those who want to adopt animals or are fond of animals and stray animals, to optimize adoption experience.
Different from the traditional way of adoption, it combines online interaction and learning with interaction of offline sites using the time interval during which qualifications are reviewed, so as to shorten the review and search time and meanwhile confirm whether they are suitable to each other in the early period of adoption. Therefore, learning of knowledge can be strengthened, so as to prevent stray animals from being abandoned again.

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Project Type

Product Design, user experience design, interactive design

My Role

Research, Concept, Wire framing, Visual Design, modeling

Timeline

april 2018

tools

adobe xd, photoshop, rhino

Background

Beijing stray animals status quo

Animals may be the best friends of humans. However, stray animals have already become the hazards of cities. After they are abandoned for various reasons, they reproduce their descendants rapidly. InBeijing and Tianjin only, it is estimated that there are 1.3 million homeless cats and dogs. Therefore, this project focuses on how to help these stray animals to obtain a better living environment

reason causes of stray animals

Through observation, the places where these stray animals usually gather are:

People abandonment / lack responsibility and supervision
Relocation of households / The breeders are unstable
dogs allowed in residential areas /Institutional restrictions
Excessive reproductive capacity / Lack of control
How Might We
How might we improve the management of stray animals through the interaction between users and stray animals?

research

Question

In order to solve the problem of stray animals more effectively, I studied some adoption organizations and adoption processes comprehensively, which enlightened me on how to solve problems and on the direction of my design.

WHAT
what are the people need?
what are the stray animals need?
what's the present situation of management?
HOW
How do people interact with stray animals?
WHO
Who wants to adopt stray animals?
WHEN
When can people take care of stray animals?
Adoption channels
Experience map

In order to understand the environment of animal shelters, I volunteered in an animal shelter ofBeijing for several days, during which time I re-understood their working conditions, service mode and management. I also interviewed some residents living around the places where stray animals gather, to get their ideas and feelings.

interviews

In order to get a deeper understanding of the current situation of stray animals in Beijing, I plan to conduct an interview to see people's attitude towards stray animals.

“I feel that the stray dogs are very pitiful, but now there is no way to raise dogs, want to help them, but there is no channel and there is not enough time.”

"Do not like stray dogs, feel very dirty will have infectious diseases, there is no department to manage stray dogs. "

research finding

problems
needs
1.
Short of effective protection measures
1.
Provide stray animals with safe and clean food
2.
Without stable source of food and fixed eating places, resulting in very high death rate
2.
clean living space
3.
Lack of daily interaction and exchange
3.
reduce influence of bad weather
4.
Due to the lack of interaction before adoption, and complicated adoption processes, it easily causes the abandonment of stray animals after they were adopted
4.
Increase early interaction of stray animals with people
5.
Popularize knowledge of feeding stray animals for adopters in the early period of adoption
Design Opportunity
By establishing relief sites at the place where stray animals gather easily, and providing relatively stable environment and food for them, the probability of spreading diseases can be reduced. What is more, through the video and voice interaction, the contact and interaction between rescuers and rescued animals are provided in the early period of adoption. Therefore, stray animals can be effectively managed.

design concept

The manner of combining relief station devices with top online application is adopted for accurately positioning the scope and reducing unnecessary time wasted on the way. The establishment of relief stations at stray animal accumulation areas can increase interaction be-tween rescuers and animals as well as build real-time connection, thereby effectively managing stray animals.

stray animals relief station
app for the adoption of stray animals
service blueprint