Brainstormed Ideas:
Bar / Restaurant Oriented Ideas:
- Line Queue Tracker - It will register with the restaurant what position you are in line and will buzz to alert you when you are ready to be served in line.
- Alcohol Consumption Rate - This app will calculate alcohol consumed over time based on your weight.
- Sobriety Test - Syncs with your car and performs sobriety test before allowing you to enter car after you enter a bar.
- Watch My Orders - This app allows you to place orders on your phone and watch (convenient so you don't have to pull phone out) and will get notifications on watch and can allow you to pay on the watch as well.
- Check Splitter App - This app will use Near Field Communication to determine all the participants at a table and allow the waiter to split the check based on orders.
- Restaurant Pandora Box - Suggests a random restaurant based on your location and you can rate it at the end of visit.
- Restaurant Service Tracker - This will notify the waiter wearing a watch of nearby tables requesting service and can help increase service satisfaction.
- Preset Menu Watcher - Tracks when you are in a restaurant based on NFC and displays quick menu for drive through services or quicker in-restaurant orders.
- Watch My Allergies - You can use voice recognition to register allergies you have and alerts you based on your voice based order to prevent allergies found in common foods.
Total For Category = 9
The Internet Of Things
- Watch My Car - tracks your car and allows you to open car with a flick of your wrist.
- Car Manager - App to turn on your car and manage basics such as A/C, radio, etc...
- Simple TV Remote - This app interacts with your TV, allowing you to power on, change volume, and change channel
- Water Watcher - This app allows you to manage your water heat level before you enter the shower, before you wash the dishes, and will have preset values for each household water related appliance.
- Group Grocery List - The grocery list can be updated on the phone and will be synced anytime someone makes an update so it allows efficient communication of groceries check list.
- Garage Watch - Allows you open your garage door with a wrist flick without ever taking out your phone based on your location from the house and keeps track of all open times and who opened it and records it on the phone.
Total For Category = 7
Total So Far = 16
Interactive Gaming:
- Snake - A game that allows you to control your snake through hand gestures, flicks, etc..
- Samurai Fighter - You can use your watch as a "sword", and this will display to the big screen and it will register your hand gestures to represent the sword swing motions.
- Racing Games - This app will allow you to use your watch as a "steering wheel" by recognizing your hand based gestures, and it will even recognize if you pull your hand back as a break.
- Treasure Hunt - This app will allow you to detect an item based on location, telling you how warm, hot, or cold (how far you are away from it). One you have found the item, the next clue will display!
- Poker Cheat Sheet - This will give you a quick cheat sheet for poker that will inform you of combos possible.
- Watch My Drums - Replicate drumming motions by sensing your hand movement velocity to track intensity of drumming for games.
- Hand-based Sports such as Baseball, Basketball, Badminton, Tennis - The watch can capture motions and then those can be transmitted as actual sports based motions digitally on a game.
Total For Category = 7
Total So Far = 23
Transit
- Next Bus (AC Transit) - This app will detect the bus stop you are at and tell you the next two incoming buses for the bus you are waiting for.
- Bart Watch - This app will notify you of incoming bart lines and tell you the two upcoming times.
- Bike Lane Navigation - This app will pick all the optimal routes for your bike and you by helping to find bike-friendly lanes.
Total For Category = 3
Total So Far = 26
Maps/Navigations:
- UC Berkeley Building Maps - Most maps online fail to account for the intracies of a building. This app will allow you to navigate within UC Berkeley to find your buildings and guide you to a specific one by working with your phone.
- Walk Tracker - tracks how much you walk within a day and the locations visited so that you can trace your steps if you ever lose anything that day
- Altitude Change - The app will detect when you have a change in altitude, which can be user for hikers or deep divers.
Total For Category = 3
Total So Far = 29
Social Networking:
- Tweet Claps - Auto tags your location based a hand clap or gesture to detect mood, event, and location.
- Friends Near Me - In a crowd of people, it may be hard to find your friend, but if you are both wearing a watch, you can find each other with this app by pointing you both towards each other.
- Friends In a Hand Shake - Allows you to add someone with a simple hand shake provided they are also wearing a watch.
Total For Category = 3
Total So Far = 32
Productivity Apps:
- Goal Watcher - make goals on your mobile device and you can check it off on your watch.
- Github Notifications - See commits being made and comments, and allows you to approve requests from anywhere
- Remind Me - Set reminders and notify yourself before that time so you will always be on top of your life.
Total For Category = 3
Total So Far = 35
Tracker / Sensors (NFCs):
- Pet Tracker / Device Tracker - This app allows you to find your nearby pets or devices with a tracker attached to those devices that you can ring with a click of a button of your watch.
Total For Category = 1
Total So Far = 36
Travel and Foreign Definitions:
- Currency Converter - Set Current Location on your phone and your foreign destination and you can convert currencies easily.
- Voice Translator - Talk in your language and choose a language and the watch will output it in that language.
- Language to Language Dictionary - This will provide a quick dictionary for essential terms in another country that you might want to know
- Logistics Analyzer - This will keep track of your vacation and dates, with photos uploaded through the phone and all your travel locations and all the necessary logistics, which will useful for you to recall later on.
- Blog Creator - This app will work with a web app and a mobile app. It will detect your travels and post a picture for your gallery that will attach itself to your blog and tag locations.
- Festivities Nearby - This will tell you of festivities or cultural events nearby you and point you to it using your watch.
Total For Category = 6
Total So Far = 42
Health / Fitness:
- Watch My Calories - Restaurants can input calories counted for order and you may check orders with calories and sends this to your phone so you can track your calories.
- Workout Tracker - This will detect your repetitions in a workout and track it and then record it on the phone for you.
- Watch Doctor - This will allow your doctor to track your heart rate and keep records of it and can also show you your health indexes.
- What Place Am I - This is useful for marathon runners / racers so that they may see what place they are currently at compared to everyone else during a race.
Total For Category = 4
Total So Far = 46
Miscellaneous:
- Watch My Time Spent - This app will allow you to record an action such as running or such and allow you to track how much time you spent doing it and can even measure intensity in terms of physical activities
- Brainstorming Note App - This app will allow to add ideas through voice or whenever you have an interesting idea and send it to you later so you can see it on the phone
- Budget Calculator - This will sync with your bank account to allow you quick access to your budget and keep track of your spendings and balances.
- Watch Mouse - This app allows you to use your watch as a mouse for your computer and can do presses with gestures.
- Motion Based Slapper - This will detect a swing motion that is similar to that of a slap and generate a sound based on that motion.
- Watch My Tutting - This app will track your hand movements or trance motions and then replay it on a mobile screen with a trance/dance like scene with dark lighting and colorful hands to replicate a rave life tutting environment.
- Disaster Alert - When you are on the road or can't pay attention to your phone, this app will notify you of disasters such as car crashes ahead of incoming tornadoes, etc...
Total For Category = 7
Total So Far = 53
Longer Project Description:
Target Users: We decided to choose the Restaurant Service Tracker as we wanted to target consumers who want a better quality of service and restaurants who want to respond to that with a better quality and more efficient service system.
Problem Description and Context: There are numerous times that I have gone out to eat with my friends or family members and the restaurants are so packed, hectic, and crazy that the waiters don't know how to respond to all of the service. At the same time, the waiter's response seemed slow and it made the customers unhappy. The problem was that a waiter was unable to figure out the needs of each customer easily and organize them in a manner that would enable him to multi-serve people. For example, for the longest time at a restaurant in Irvine (The Boiling Point), three tables within one vicinity asked the waiters/waitresses for water, but they fulfilled one table and couldn't attend to the rest till later, which was highly inefficient and made the customers unhappy. However, it wasn't the servicer's fault. They couldn't hear all the incoming requests with the hectic and crowded environment so it made their service seem more inefficient. In such a chaotic environment, it would help if the waiter knew multiple requests from the same location or within the same request range and then fulfill those requests all at once. For example, he can bring 5 checks to five different tables within a location if somehow knew those tables all needed checks instead of making multiple trips. There are organizational structures that try to break down service into areas, but it is highly inefficient as many people seat themselves in different areas and the service is uneven based on how crowded one section may be. Also, there is still no way to fulfill multiple requests and it increases the wait time between a request and a response.
Why Mobile Application?
First of all, it is highly inconvenient for one to pull out a laptop when one is at a restaurant. Also, a web based application would be slower than a mobile based application. On the other hand, we also need a mobile application in order to get started with the application. The mobile application will allow you to type your names and send it to the waiter to personalize the experience and allow you and the waiter to have a more personal experience. It can be particularly useful pre-dining because its interface is not as limiting as the smart watch.
Why Smart Watch Application?
The Smart Watch application would be particularly useful because as soon as the dining experience starts, pulling out a smart phone would be inconvenient. Once the dining starts, the waiter and you should already have filled out the basics with the names to personalize the experience so the watch can be used for simple services such as water, check, orders, questions, etc... Also, on the waiter's side, they will have a smart watch that they will wear that gets notifications on nearby table needs and it can help make them more efficient when they do their routine service check-ups. The waiter usually cannot have access to a phone on the job so the use of a watch will be convenient and more feasible.
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