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This paper introduces an application design named Planty Go which encourages young people to exchange their planting harvests in big cities to relieve anxiety. To achieve this target Planty Go offer youngsters a place to learn planting skills, exchange harvest, and make friends with people who also like planting. This paper also includes the process of the application design from research to evaluation. Different from other planting applications, Planty Go focuses on supporting the emotions of youngsters and planting experience. So this paper introduces how to identify the problem through primary research and how to solve those problems with the Planty Go. Finally, this paper introduced a Heuristic Evaluation which helps designers improve this design continually.
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Huang, W., Qian, Z.C., Sohn, J.J., Ju, Y. (2020). PLANTY GO: A Smart Planter System to Relieve Stress and Anxiety of Urban Youngsters. In: Marcus, A., Rosenzweig, E. (eds) Design, User Experience, and Usability. Case Studies in Public and Personal Interactive Systems. HCII 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12202. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49757-6_17
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