Store Helper

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Store Helper

• By Matthew Douglas Salyer
• Class CS 410
• Term Spring 2008

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Outline

• Societal problem
• Statics
• My Solution
• Customer
• Benefits
• Risk
• Competition
• Conclusion
• References
• Questions

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Societal Problem

• There are some people who need extra help when
  they go to big stores like wall-mark for example
  and sometime it is hard to find a person who can
  help you.
• There is also some people who know what they need
  to do but they do not understand what they need
  in order to do it.

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Statics

• The average size of a Home Depot Store is 105,000
  square ft.
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Home_Depot
• The average size of a Wal-Mart Store is 197,000
  square feet.
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallmart

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My Solution

• Wireless device
• Using touch screen
• Using voice navigation
• The ability to talk to a real person
• Can find out what you need to do a specific job

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Customer

• Big Stores for example Wall-Mart and places like
  Lowe's and Home Depot.
• Customers that go to those stores.

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Benefits

• Would help people find items faster
• Would let people always have a means to talk to
  someone
• Would help out people that have something to do
  but do not know what take to do it.
• Store could use it to advertise, for example they
  could put it where their special deals show up on
  the device

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Risks

• Stores would have to be willing to have people on
  stand by to monitor when someone call in with a
  question
• If people decides not to use headphones then the
  voices might interfere with the stores
  advertisements that is playing over the store
  speakers.
• Store might not want to update their technology.

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Competition

• The Product Locator
• Its not portable
• http//www.cs.odu.edu/cpi/fall2001/product_locato
  r/

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Conclusion
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References

• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Home_Depot
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallmart
• http//www.cs.odu.edu/cpi/fall2001/product_locato
  r/

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Questions