TEAM
Rafi Lurie, Gabrianna Dumaguin, Josh Lehga, Chaaru Dingankar, Kevin Follmer
BRAINSTORM
Group/Social/Analytics/Data
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Hand Raise Queue - An app that builds a queue for students raising their hands in class, allows the teacher to call on students based on the queue, and will record analytics for how many questions a student asks in class (can be used for possible extra credit).
iClicker App - Allow students to answer questions like an iClicker (so they don’t have to purchase one) without the distractions of a mobile phone.
Group Assignments - Allows a teacher to split a class into groups for working sessions by displaying a certain indicator on every student’s watch.
Applause Analytics - Analyzes crowd satisfaction based on volume and speed of crowd applause.
Athletics
Form Training For Weight Lifting - Corrects form for weight lifters by making sure that they are lifting weights in a straight line.
Personal Trainer - Gives motivational support for weight lifters by sensing weight, change in speed of weight lifting, and number of reps.
Athletics Analytics - Provides analytics for number of reps and speed of reps for weight lifters as well as tracking different workouts.
Land Water Polo - Allows for simulated games of water polo without a ball by sensing direction and strength of “passes”.
Communication
SOS - Use your watch to transmit morse code by flashing the screen when you need to communicate discretely or get saved when your ship is sinking
WalkieTalkie - use your watch as a walkie talkie and never be out of reach of your best friend
Swordfish- watch uses gesture recognition to confirm your secret handshake with your secret pals
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NiceToMeetYa - shake hands with someone you just met and exchange phone number, facebook, etc
Toss - watch senses a throwing action in a certain direction to send information (maybe contact info, or even messages and pics) to your friend
Social & Location Based
Gestlator - Different cultures have very different gestures. This app senses your gestures and translates them into other cultures’ gestures to be displayed on the screen so you will never be lost in a foreign country
FriendTrap - Alerts you when your friend is close by, right on your wrist. Never miss a connection
Point - using a camera or other sensors, this app allows you to get the information you need on the objects that surround you
SongDrop - an application for music fans to leave behind songs tied to a place for others to experience.
TourWatch - an application that enables anyone to take a guided tour of any attraction through their smartwatch and headphones.
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DropNote - an application that lets people leave notes tied to a geographic location for others to read.
Speed
Bike Speed - Gives statistics and speedometer readings to bikers while they are riding for easy viewing.
Truck Stop - an application to warn truck drivers if they are driving at dangerous or illegal speeds.
Music
Silent Rave - Enables synced music playing for a group of people at a single event through the headphones that come with the watch.
Music Tempo Radio - Detects or receives as an input a certain tempo and plays a radio station for you based on it.
Music Conductor - an application that allows you to record and review music conductances through the smartwatch.
Air Drum- An application that recognizes your wrists’ movements and maps these movements to a specific layout that you have chosen on the phone. It then plays the sounds accordingly.
Metronome- Vibrates to keep a musician on tempo.
Control
Extended Viewer- An application that allows a person to view a video feed of another person sight on their watch. This would be useful for law enforcement.
CameraControl- Remotely view a camera from your watch and control when it’s on, where it’s looking, etc.
RFID scanner- An RFID scanner to allow for faster payments and for activities like reading barcodes while shopping.
Unlock Me - A proximity sensor will allow you to unlock your car just like we do with keyless entry today.
Lightsaber - An application that allows two people to essentially play a lightsaber game with each other. This uses the accelerometer and a speaker from either your phone or watch.
HandMouse - The smart watch tracks your wrist movements just like a computer mouse would, essentially eliminating the need for the mouse hardware.
Everyday Stuff
Sous Chef Plus - application for cooks at home that display step-by-step recipes controlled by voice command
Flash Learn! - application that periodically prompts you for the definition of a word or term you need to memorize throughout the day
Speedy Reader - application that trains you to speed read by initiating speed reading sessions at different intervals throughout the day
You’re Grounded - app that buzzes a juvenile whose parent has grounded him/her if he/she is not at home at a specified time and automatically notifies the parent of the violation
Alerts
Break Time - application that buzzes people at work when their lunch break is over
Cold Turkey - application that helps you quit smoking by giving you a shock whenever it detects cigarette smoke
Seat Me - application that allows restaurants to give your watch a buzz when your table is ready
Keep Me Awake - application that monitors your heart rate and shocks you when you’re falling asleep when you shouldn’t (e.g. while driving or in lecture)
Other
Sleep Analytics - Analyzes when a user is in the lightest stage of sleep to wake them up at the most optimal times as well as provide data on the quality of a user’s sleep.
Faucet Indicator - Paired with a smart faucet, this app would make sure that the water only turned on when your hands were close in order to not waste water.
Parachute Deployment- Smart watch senses your altitude and automatically prompts you when you should open your parachute.
Scubadiving/Astronaut Oxygen level- Simple application that warns you when your oxygen levels are getting critically low.
Air Doodle - translates your hand movements to a drawing that can be saved to your phone
My Dance Coach - records movement data while you dance and gives you feedback on your form
Shaker - app that makes shaker noises as if you were shaking a real music shaker (i.e. maracas)
Presentation Helper - an app that pairs with a PowerPoint or Keynote presentation so that you can advance slides, keep track of total and per-slide times, and view speech notes while remaining mobile on stage.
Studying Coach - an app that disables your phone, keeps track of progress through assignments, and schedules short periodic study breaks.
TheFinalCountdown - A simple countdown displayed on your watch that counts down to your final moment - used for motivation; could even give you random tasks to do to make the best of your fleeting moments
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Our main idea is the weight training analytics app.
Why did you pick the main idea to work on out of all of the other ideas?
The weight training analytics app addresses the long-had, antiquated problem of recording weight training workouts and adds the value of providing analytics built in. Currently, exercises, weights, and progress must be manually recorded every time a weight lifter finishes a set of reps. Our app improves this experience by making this tracking effortless and built directly into the workout for a wide, but targeted, audience, many of whom work out multiple times a week.
Target user group:
The target user group for this application is composed of people who are active weight lifters and want to track and record information about their weight training sessions. This group often forgets the volume and intensity of their last workout, making it difficult to keep up a good progression over time. Because this group wants to maintain an optimally challenging and progressive workout over time, it is likely that members of this group use either paper or their phone to record information about their workouts while at the gym (sets, reps, weight). This group is not weight trainers who are unsure about what kinds or how much training they want to do, nor is it weight trainers who may want to stick to a prescribed training routine without needing to know about their performance over time.
Problem Description and Context
People who work out on a regular basis are constantly on the lookout for an application that will record their workouts and provide them with analytical information about their exercises. With that being said, the problem that many people face while working out is that their phone gets in the way for various reasons: accessing their music player, looking at their workout companion app, etc. In addition, this problem is what keeps users’ reviews of mobile workout applications below the top, and so, a smartwatch will serve as the perfect platform for the application in question. Furthermore, an analytic workout application on the smartwatch will provide users with a way of optimizing their workouts by lifting the right amount of weight, avoiding breaks that are too long, viewing how many reps must be done for a specific exercise, and receiving information about their form. The intuitive user interface of the application will cater to the expectations and abilities of people who work out once in a while to people who work out all the time. In other words, the application has the ability to become more complex for users with complex needs.
Why is a mobile app a good solution for the problem?
This app is for use when you’re at the gym or wherever you work out. It would not make sense for this to be a web app or anything on a device that cannot be taken with you. It would be not as useful if after your workout you had to go home, type in your data, and get your analytics. This makes it easy to forget your lift counts and does not allow for specific analytics of your form. Having this as a mobile app (especially one connected to your wrist) allows for real time suggestions and analytics for safety and accuracy. This would just not be possible with a non-mobile app.
Why is a smart watch a good solution for the problem?
Obviously, a person’s hands are full while weightlifting, so it only makes sense to implement the application on a wearable that will not get in the way of a weight training session. In addition, a smart watch application allows for hassle-free collection of valuable weightlifting performance data, reducing memory overhead of the user as well as providing additional information about workout intensity that he/she would otherwise not be able to infer. Because the watch is directly on the user’s wrist, the data collected by the smart watch application is more likely to be more accurate than someone simply observing the weightlifter.
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