Alpha
Katelyn Ehmry
Alpha is an application designed to improve communication between dog owners and their dog trainers. Trainers are able to keep track of training sessions through the app and personalize it to the dog that they are working with by uploading videos, grading each session, and giving recommendations to the owners.
The reason that this is so important is because dog training is not always effective, even when working with a trainer. The reasons for this stem from motivation, patience, and realizing that after working with a trainer, most of the training actually takes place at home in the dogs living environment.
With this application owners are held just as responsible with the dog training and will have access to not only the trainer but a community. The community aspect of the application allows owners to connect locally to ask questions and help other dog owners to resolve problems or just share their dog.
The trainer can log training sessions, upload personal videos, view medical records, and personally chat with the dog owners.
Owners have access to their personal videos, resources, a community, and viewing their pup’s progress during training sessions.
Please view the application prototype through this link: https://xd.adobe.com/view/ce1fa432-b102-4fa9-6edc-3a93b490dfec-b82e/
Website:
https://ksehmry.wixsite.com/katelynehmryid
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/katelynehmry
Portfolio:
https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:04ab46c0-ab18-4052-a70b-3bb1460fd654
Katelyn Ehmry is a senior in Industrial Design with one semester to complete for her degree. She is passionate about animals and children; one of her goals is to go into children’s educational toy design. The inspiration behind the project Alpha was her own dogs at home. She has 2 dogs, one is a rescue with 7 newborn puppies.
She has worked at the Keeland Design Lab at UH for almost 2 years helping students with safety and learning how to use wood shop and metal shop tools.