#problem research

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In the past 10 years, if users want to buy the cheapest products, they need to check many websites, and then find out which one is the cheapest one. However, in nowadays it have a new method may help users to quickly through a program or software to complete this step, it is Comparison shopping engines (CSE's), it is a new word in nowadays. It is giving merchants the opportunity to attract new customers, increase sales, and go head-to-head against the competition's platform. It can promote sales, reasonable promote competition and side improve brand effect. This is an important guide that will explain which one is the cheapest or best product. 

What are Comparison Shopping Engines?

Comparison shopping engines is collect many product information, pricing and retailers, and then integrated this information together to produce a network shopping platform, and then display that collective information on a single results page in response to a shopper's search query. In this way, shoppers can compare each retailer's price, shipping options, and service on a single page and choose the merchant that offers the best overall value. There are many compare price engines in our daily life.  For instance, Google Shopping, Shopzilla website and Become website, these website have compare price engine, which means it may help users to check the cheapest products in the website.

Comparison shopping website, sometimes called a price comparison website, comparison shopping agent, or comparison shopping engine, is a vertical search engine that shoppers use to filter and compare products based on price, features, and other criteria. Most comparison shopping sites are aggregate product from many different retailers but do not directly sell products themselves. meanwhile, comparison shopping website  using in many industries, such as airlines, shopping online and tourism products website, but in supermarket APPs or website are only have their personal information do not have comparison shopping engine. Users only can by themselves to check each supermarkets' APPs to compare which one is cheapest, is very inconvenient.

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Tobacco, in particular, has a major impact on birthweight. In 2011, one-half (50%) of Indigenous mothers and 12% of non-Indigenous mothers reported smoking during pregnancy [3].

http://www.healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au/health-facts/overviews/births-and-pregnancy-outcome

About 1 in 7 women who gave birth in 2009 smoked during pregnancy.

Quitting smoking is the best thing you can do for your baby. When you smoke, you breathe in over 4,000 chemicals from the cigarette. The smoke goes from your lungs, into your bloodstream and that blood flows to your placenta and umbilical cord, right into your baby’s body.

By quitting smoking you are:

more likely to conceive naturally and without delay

less likely to suffer a miscarriage or ectopic pregnancy

less likely to deliver your baby prematurely.

By quitting smoking your baby is:

less likely to die at or shortly after birth from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)

more likely to be born a healthy weight

likely to be more settled and feed better

more likely to be discharged home from hospital with you, and need less care in hospital.

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This articles give me a clear idea about two ways I need design for my website.

1. quit smoking for the mother self.

2. quit smoking for the baby.

Also, this article help me to brainstorm about the design story telling.

Therefor my website story will have the texts, animations or images about why they are better to quit smoking in a interaction way.

This is the blog for the QUT course - DXB301- Interface Design.

Firstly, the project I am going to do is based on the brief.

The Brief

Identify an existing problem and promote a design solution or a ‘call to action’ through an interactive web interface. The project must aim to: OPTIMISE, DISRUPT, EMPOWER, ENGAGE, or CONNECT.

The final presentation should demonstrate:

A problem (associated with human experience, technological dis/advantage and or environmental concerns).

Data Dramatisation, visualisation and interaction to demonstrate the problem

A Call to action – A ‘change solution’

Before ‘find the problem’, this course is focus on the field of Interaction Design (IxD) andrelated fields such as User Experience Design (UX), User Interface Design (UI). Therefore, I am think find a problem that will show more problems existing and offer users awareness and knowledge.

Find Focus:

Location: Australia ( based on this country)

Problem: social issues, environmental problems,

                alcohol, violence, obesity, smoking...

Astronaut Leroy Chiao

  It is worth nothing that most use their downtime in zero gravity to gaze out the window at Earth. A popular pastime while orbiting the Earth is simply looking out the window. Astronauts on board the space shuttle can look out the cockpit windows and watch the Earth below or the deep blackness of space. Inside the International Space Station, crewmembers have numerous windows they can look out. Astronauts often comment on their fascination and awe as they look at the Earth spin beneath them with its multiple shades and textures. Sunsets and sunrises are also very spectacular, occurring every 45 minutes above the Earth's atmosphere. Astronaut Leroy Chiao shared a lot of experience about his daily life in the International Space Station with journalists. According to Chiao, “Here you are hundreds of miles away looking at the rainforest and the desert, but you’re looking at it from a pretty sterile environment”. “The thing I missed the most was nature, the smell of grass, being around trees and seeing birds and other animals,” says Chiao. He also took the first documented photo of the Great Wall of China from space.

The Cupola (pronounced “kyoo-pel-ah”) is a seven-paned geometric dome that boasts the biggest spacecraft window ever: a central, circular pane with a 31-inch diameter. Combined with six other trapezoidal windows, the device offers a nearly unimpeded view of space and the big blue marble zipping by 220 miles below.

According to some reading, I have found that.....

About theirfree time

l  Sometimesthe crew stays up late together to watch movies—like The Godfather or, aptly, 2001: A Space Odyssey.

l  Someone moistened strands of bamboo and wove them into tiny, Nantucket Lightship Baskets.

l  Because going outside for a stroll is impossible, others read e-books, write emails, and shop online.

l  On Saturdays and Sundays, astronauts can find many of the crewmembers watching movies, reading books, playing cards or using Skype with their loved ones back home. Most international space stations actually have Wifi for the whole station.