Project 1

1-130
Spring 2023
What can a Starship do?

Brehm, Evan L. UX Design

Cross, Carter S. 3D Animation and Visual Effects
Hinton, Anastasia R. Game Design
Martinez, Christian E. Game Design
VanOverberghe, Colton M. Data Visualization
The Design Space
● Students on campus need specific items only
for temporary use and don’t want to buy them.

● A way for students to get items they need

quickly without having to leave the dorm.

● A new way to create passive income for

students with little work.

● A new way to create communities and Our original design of the

interactions within a dorm or pod of dorms. Starship did not change much
other than altering the interior
by adding a system of straps to
secure items while in transport.
Interviewed Users and Experts
● 2 student users
○ To determine the feasibility and understand our users
● 1 dorm RA
○ A higher understanding of how we can create better
interactions between residents
● 1 starship user observation
○ Understand the current process and problems that
students encounter upon using the starship
● Distribution and technical expert
○ learned about the capabilities and changes that are
feasible for the starship
 User Evaluation Solutions
● Reduced the hull size
● Included the addition of
cameras
○ Cameras only record when being
opened and closed
○ Cameras face towards the hull to not
breach privacy
● Created scanners within
charging pods
○ Required to go through scanner
before delivery

“As they are now, they are too bulky to “I would feel unsafe relying solely on
navigate dorms and not cause the renter to identify the item being
obstructions” rented”
 Revised Storyboard
Final Sketches
Revised Sketches

This is our final storyboard that shows the rental process from renter, to
This is our final sketch of our Starship and charging/scanning
scanner, to rentee, to scanner, back to renter. This storyboard also
pod. The new addition include cameras, hook grid, straps,
shows the app based on facebook marketplace.
scanning station
Feasibility
● Overall our product would be extremely useful and practical to students around
campus according to users.
● Our product is feasible for the purposes we propose as well as able to be made with
our current technology.
● However, the starship and charging pod would have to go through a major redesign in
order to achieve this goal. Our expert believed that this wouldn’t be very cost
effective for them as a company.

“renting from other people and giving “The starships do not currently do a
“This is a great solution to give students
items out to rent is a good idea and a lot of things you suggest. There would
access to items that their RA doesn’t
great time saver for students.” be a cost to modify the starships for
have.”
this use”
Sources
● Inside the mind of an autonomous delivery robot | Digital Trends
● The Future of Delivery Robots | Forbes
● Field Report: Starship Delivery Robots a Hit at Purdue University | Robotics Business Review
● Robotics company revolutionizes shopping and delivery | European Investment Bank
● Inside the mind of an autonomous delivery robot | Digital Trends
● https://dl-acm-org.ezproxy.lib.purdue.edu/doi/10.1145/3531028.3531051
● https://dl-acm-org.ezproxy.lib.purdue.edu/doi/10.1145/3562939.3565644
Questions?
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