Hey there! We are All Toq!
Our team consists of five brilliant students:
- Brandon Maushund
- Enrico Tanuwidjaja
- Joshua Perline
- Paul Tawfik
- William Guo
Brainstorm
We did two intense brainstorm sessions to came up with these wild ideas:
- Golf Swing Analyzer: a measurement application that tracks arm positioning and movement while taking a swing at a golf ball and provides tips to improve form.
Arm Wrestling Game: an entertainment application that allows users to partake in friendly arm-wrestling competitions and improve ranks on a local leaderboard.
High-Five Contact Info Share: automatically shares contact info with another user of the application through a high-five action.
Toq Translate: translator application that allows for a user to provide either textual or audio input and translate to a designated language.
Siri for Toq: extension of Siri for the Toq Watch, providing for general searches and simple commands to facilitate everyday lifestyle.
Shopping List: a shopping list application allowing for an easily accessible interface for keeping track of groceries that need to be shopped for.
Toq Roulette: a modified version of Chat Roulette, but for the Toq Watch. Should support peer to peer connections and relatively seamless chatting experience.
App for Colorblind People: an application that allows a user who is unable to see certain colors distinguish between colors by taking a picture and decoding the color schemes.
Spider Man Web Shooter: an entertainment application geared at younger audiences, producing sound effects and modelling a web-shot from Spider Man on screen.
Friend Tracker: alerts the user on the current location of friends who have established a connection prior, serving as a quick and easy way to meet up to hang out.
Hearing Aid Interface: a wrist interface to control aspects of one’s hearing aid, such as volume or on / off status, so that you don’t have to take it out of your ear every time you want to make a quick adjustment
Gym Rep Counter: uses the watch’s accelerometer to count reps for you at the gym and keep records of past personal bests and statistics.
Candy Crush/Tetris Watch Storage: uses the watch as a second screen to store extra pieces in games like Candy Crush or Tetris via swipe gestures.
Video Game Augmentation: a wearable interface for an existing Android video game.
Wifi Signal Finder: an application that accesses all the wifi networks within range and using triangulation, points you in a direction to increase your signal strength.
Mobile Watch Payments: pay at the register with your watch using NFC.
Cell Signal Map: keeps track of your average cell reception level in various areas and creates a dynamic map of locations -> cell reception quality and displays it on your watch during calls.
Human MineSweeper: a game of MineSweeper, but played using one’s person and Geolocation and controlled via the Toq watch
Video Player: an interface for quickly moving viewing of videos from one’s phone to the watch seamlessly using swipe gestures.
Pokemon (Toq-et Monsters): GPS-based pokemon clone that randomly puts you in battles with pokemon and sends push notification to your watch asking if you’d like to battle/catch pokemon as you are walking around. Different Pokemons are found in different locations.
See Around Corners: use your watch camera to see around corners Metal Gear Solid style.
Phone Feed: use your watch as a window to see what your phone camera is capturing. Good for security/spying purposes.
Smart Home: use your smart watch to control your home’s lights, AC, doors, etc.
Inventory: allow restaurant/store owners to keep a watch visualization of their stock/inventory.
Waiting Tables: provides an easy to use interface for customers to communicate with waiters (and for waiters to keep track of customers) for heightened service.
Building Room Finder: a scaled down version of Google Maps for particular building layouts.
NFC Key: turn your watch into your one-stop key for your home and cars using NFC.
Collaborative Playlist Interface: allow closeby friends to edit a collaborative playlist using the Toq screen.
Safety Reminder: reminds the user of a possible safety (varying use cases) hazard via an alert on Toq.
Tinder Proximity Alert: alerts user on watch if you are near a person who you’ve matched on Tinder with.
Interest Matcher: match people who have similar interests by allowing users to select a particular popular interest and get matched with others who share the same interest.
Study Buddy: match users who are working on the same class assignment or studying for the same course.
Self-checkout: scan products with your watch as you shop in order to make checking out quick and easy. An alternative idea that could be implemented right now would be to scan products with your phone and have the net total displayed on the watch.
Cooking Helper: an app with cooking tutorials that lets the cook swipe through ingredients and cooking steps on his or her watch. The app would have cooking timers if necessary for the tutorials in order to augment the cooking experience as much as possible.
Delivery Tracking: alert the user of updates to deliveries in transit from USPS or FedEx.
Vibration Delivery: allow users to make each other’s watches or phones vibrate though taps on the watch face. Good for secret communication or for increased intimacy.
Sex offender alert: alert the user when walking near the home of a registered sex offender. These locations are publicly available from the government.
PowerPoint Controller: control PowerPoint presentations with the watch, allowing the user to swipe left to advance slides, or swipe right to go back a slide.
Shopping Aisle Locator: easily find products while shipping by looking up aisles on the watch.
Ingress Watch Interface: play the popular mobile game, “Ingress,” on your smart watch.
Live Action Role Playing Game (LARP): a role-playing game where the players must physically act out their characters’ actions.
“Sweet Toq” for Couples: an app that can be paired only with your significant other that allows you send voice, text, and pulse to each other or locate each other.
Ebola Warning: an app that notifies you when there is an epidemic and lets you know how far it is from you.
Berkeley Meal: database of all campus restaurant menus, allows searching for meals by dish or meal restriction. I.e. Input: Vegan Sandwich Output: FSM, Yalis.
InTOQxicated: easily find the nearest drunk person to chill with, the nearest party, or a bar with your Toq watch.
Hidden Cheats: an app that allows you to see your notes or ask questions to other students in the middle of an exam without getting caught by the proctor.
Park Assist: an app that helps you find the nearest available parking spot when you are driving and allows you to easily save your car’s location.
Room Temperature with Leaderboard: measure your room temperature and compete with others to find out whose room is the hottest!
Movie Schedules: an app that lists movie schedules near you so that you can easily find the movie that you want to watch.
- Pandora Interface: control Pandora using the Toq watch.
Unfortunately, we are not very environmentally friendly. We used so many Post-It notes not onl in class, but also in our session:
Take a look at some of our amazing sketches:
Idea Selection
After much careful consideration, we pruned the list of 50 smart watch application ideas down to the three most popular choices. We went about narrowing down our choices in a democratic fashion, in which each team member provided their individual three favorite options. The PowerPoint Controller application idea came in first place, followed by Pokemon for the Toq Watch and then the Waiting Tables application.
We animate our ideas to make them alive!
Overall, we felt that the PowerPoint Controller application was the most applicable, in terms of frequency of usage as well as broadness of audience. Whether it be for school or for work, presentations are prevalent in both environments -- with a smart watch remote application, slide maneuvering becomes simple. Pokemon, which despite being a fun project to undertake, would not necessarily have much utility in the working community. The Waiting Tables application, however, does provide a much more efficient interface then the current system in place. It would be highly beneficial for a customer to contact a waiter through an easily accessible interface. A waiter-customer communication/menu application for a mobile device (such as the Toq Watch) would both increase quality of service as well as save time. This would most definitely be the choice to consider if we change our minds on project choice.
So, the winner is PowerPoint Controller! With this app, your smart watch becomes a remote that you can use to move your slides forward and backward during your presentation!
Project Description
Problem Description & Context
Powerpoint presentations are a very large part of academia and business, as most important presentations in today’s society revolve around slide presentations and keyontes. The way most of these presentations are done are through the use of physically tapping on the presenter’s computer, (which forces the presenter to stay in close proximity to the keyboard) or through handheld powerpoint controllers that are unreliable and have low battery life. Currently the handheld devices are currently the best solution on the market, but have one huge drawback, they aren’t hands-free. Our app will let presenters have full, physical freedom in their presentations, letting them focus on what truly matters.
Target User Group
While our potential user base is really anyone who regularly uses presentation software, we’d like to initially target young professionals who regularly give presentations as part of their vocation. We’ll focus on younger professionals while making our design because they are the ones who tend to adopt new technology quicker and would therefore be more receptive to the new smart watch wearable interface. These users are presumably busy in the earlier stages of their careers and would like to worry about one less thing by having a presentation clicker directly on their person at all times. In addition, if they regularly give presentations, their ability to present is arguably better than those who do presentations sporadically, if at all. If this were the case, then they would garner significant benefit from having an additional hands-free to use while presenting.
Why is a mobile app a good solution for the problem?
By virtue of being a mobile app, the user is afforded mobility which results in better and more convenient presentations. Most mobile devices have the ability to connect to the internet, which allows them to connect to computers wirelessly, allowing the user to control the computer to navigate through slide presentations. Presenters shouldn’t be limited to standing directly in front of their computer or podium; they should have the ability to walk around in order to give an engaging presentation. Moreover, a mobile app is a good solution for slide presentations because most people already own mobile touchscreen devices rather than clickers. Rather than having to shop for a clicker, they can just conveniently download an app.
Why is a smart watch a good solution for the problem?
Holding a smartphone in your hand during your entire presentation is inconvenient, especially given the increasing size of smartphones recently. Another solution is to use a wireless presenter remote, but again, it requires you to hold it during your presentation. Also, you have to buy it and bring it with you all the time just to be used during your presentation. This is why we need a smart watch. Smart watches are hands-free, so you can still use your hands to fully express your ideas and interact with the audience. Furthermore, your smart watch will be with you all the time, so you don’t need to worry about forgetting it and you can simply use it when the time has come for you to present.
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