7A – Testing the Hypothesis

I envision a major opportunity in regard to assisting the college students at the University of Florida find the best times to use the gyms. Therefore, students can figure out the times in which both UF gyms are least crowded on a daily basis. The who for this opportunity would be the UF college students who go to the gyms. The what for this opportunity would be that students are not able to workout effectively and efficiently because the gyms are quite crowded whenever they go. The why for this opportunity would be that there are an abundance of college students who use both gyms, hence students who dislike crowded gyms would need to be informed of the times in which the gyms are least crowded. I strongly believe that we can improve the overall lives of UF college students via providing them with the best possible times to workout. We can accomplish this by developing a mobile app which displays the daily times in which the gym is at a low percentage capacity wise. Therefore, more UF college students will be motivated to workout and would not be discouraged due to a crowded gym. Hence, their overall health and physical/mental condition will improve drastically because they will workout at the gym more frequently and consistently. This is an issue which impacts many college students, hence why a solution is highly necessary in order to assist these collegiate students at the University of Florida. Regarding the interview part, I proceeded to conduct a total of five interviews with friends of mine who attend the University of Florida. Essentially, every interviewee attends UF and goes to the gym, with three interviewees being males and two interviewees being females. In essence, the responses from all interviewees correlated and aligned rather seamlessly, as they collectively agreed that finding appropriate times to workout was a significant problem at UF. Moreover, all individuals stated that the gyms can become incredibly crowded, and can sometimes prevent them from wanting to workout on a daily basis. As a result, they become increasingly insecure about themselves, which ultimately causes them to become highly demotivated and discouraged from working out. Furthermore, all the interviewees concur that an app which displays the capacity at the gyms at different times of the day is necessary in order to rectify the problem at hand. There were three interviewees who firmly believed the app would improve the mental and physical health/well-being of all UF college students. The other two interviewees agreed that the app would be beneficial to a certain extent, but did not believe that it would solve all of the issues related to health and questioned the app's ability to provide reliable, consistent updates/coverage. In essence, I now possess full confidence to follow through with my idea in order to aid and improve the lives of all college students at the University of Florida.