Low usefulness

High usefulness

Low novelty

(iii) NovLo_UseLo: 7

(ii) NovLo_UseHi: 12

“Elderly people who drink too little water are easily dehydrated and this is bad for their health. […] The students’ lifestyle approach was that we need to make elderly people more aware that they are at risk of dehydration. […] The students came up with the idea of a smart drinking cup. They wanted to integrate the cup with e-technology and e-health, so that the smart drinking cup would tell elderly to drink more. […] However, the students abandoned the idea, because it has already been thought of several times and it does not work; it is expensive, and it is typical tech-optimism that does not fit well with the elderly population. So, then the students abandoned that path” [T14 dehydration in elderly people].

“I think those were all girls. […] One of those girls had asthma herself and they wanted to develop something with an app for asthmatics. Well, within the hospital, we have two very big examples of that, Air Bridge and Asthma Buddy, so those ideas have already been developed. […. ] Within their ideas, there was just nothing innovative” [T5 asthma].

High novelty

(i) NovHi_UseLo: 10

NovHi_UseHi*

“There was a group who were working on the problem of misophonia [a condition where normal sounds cause a psychological reaction]. The students generated a very interesting idea for that problem. […] A headphone-like device that would filter specific sounds out, so [the wearer] could still follow the conversation. The students had all kinds of contacts with technical companies; however, the students got stuck because their idea was not feasible without any funding” [T1 misophonia].