Group Brainstorm

Group Name: Honey Badgers

Group Members: Lesley Chiang, Ryan Ma, Jared Sanchez, Corinne Schafle, Allen Li

Brainstorm Ideas:

1. Smartcollar: an app that allows you to sync a GPS locator for your pets. This way, if you pet gets lost you can easily locate them (e.g. if you cat gets stuck in a tree, you can find the tree and determine how high up they are)
2. Barcode scanner: Lets you scan barcodes with your watch; allows for easy access to scan barcodes when shopping to find the price and do price comparisons between various stores (Amazon, Target, etc.)
3. Control for camera: An app that allows you to control your camera or phone camera from afar so that you don’t have to set a timer and run back to your group in a hurry.
5. Phone excuse (discrete phone caller): When you end up in a conversation with a person you don’t want to talk with, you can use this app to call yourself!
6. Motion Capture System: An app to be used with Wii or Kinect or Playstion Move to allow for more easy motion-capture; users don’t have to hold a wii-mote or have to be within a small range in order to detect motion
7. Pulse Monitor: This app will closely monitor you heart rate for people who are in risk of heart attack or high blood pressure. Your watch will notify you if it senses that your heart rate is too high. It will also let you determine your pulse rate at any time.
8. Translator: Translate to and from different languages; if user is in a foreign country or learning another language, they can hold their watch close to the other person and the app will translate that sentence.
9. Sporkrocket: An app that allows restaurant workers to easily track orders (taking orders and making orders) - chefs can swipe through orders and the next item will appear in the order they were ordered in.
10. Telegram App: You can communicate with your friends in MORSE CODE!!! They can getlight or vibration notifications DIRECTLY TO THEIR WRIST!!!
11. Color Reference Pallet: You can take a photo of an image and the app will color match it and display the color on your watch. You can then adjust the color on your watch if you want a slightly different RGB .
12. Spatial Drawing: Lets you draw things in the AIR! Your watch will capture the motion of your wrist and translate it into a physical image you can view and work with.
13. To-do App: Lets you organize your to-do list; only your most important, time-sensitive to-do list will synced. Your next to-do list item will show up, much like the calendar app on the Toq Watch.
14. Scrapbook app: Has different frames for photos. Allows filters. Has extraneous stickers. Build the book on your phone, view on your watch!! (also your phone)
15. Bathroom finder: Finds the nearest public bathroom. Allows you to rate the bathroom. (smelly scale, cleanness)
16. Positive Reminder app: Have a midterm coming up? A stressful interview? Why not preset a reminder to cheer you up? You can program your phone to give you periodic picker-uppers in the form of a photo or a quote. Pin something positive on Pinterest? add it your reminder list! or send to a friend
17. Home Automation: You can program several appliances to start and stop from you phone, such as your laundry machine or coffee maker. This makes it easier so that if you forget to do something, you don’t have to walk all the way over to the appliance to set it; you can simply do it from where you are.
18. Light Automation: Control your home lighting system from your watch so that you don’t have to struggle to find your light switch as you enter a room. You can simply tap your watch and the light will turn on.
19. SneakySnap: You can snap even faster and more discretely than snapchat! Users can do a sequence of taps or say a code-word to activate the snap.
20. Sunscreen UV reminders: reminds you to put sunscreen on when its hot out and the sun is intense. You can input when you put sunscreen on, and it can access when or if you should re-apply that day. Possibly include event options, like soccer game or swimming so your exposed longer and the sunscreen might have been rubbed off
21. Capture image to create a 3D print of it: Snap an image in the wild and have it converted into a 3D printer file so you can have it with you in real-life
22. Recording short audio clips: Record audio clips at a moment’s notice to remember important notes or facts right when they occur
23. Hearing aid watch: Record what people are saying and sentence by sentence show up on watch, possibly longer full text version available on phone.
24. Emergency Alerts: An app to alerts users in real-time emergency notifications, locally or nationally; cans sync university emergency notification systems or national ones.
25. CPR compression depth monitor: Lifeguards, EMTS, and other medical professionals can use this app to aid them in CPR; the app will track how deep the compressions are and how fast you are doing them (screen will flash red if not deep enough; green otherwise, beeps to keep time for responder). This can be used a training tool to help first aid responders to make sure they are doing compressions deep enough.
26. FIST BUMP: Users can do a first bump motion to share music, photos, contacts quickly and easily.
27. Lap/Stroke Counter: Counts strokes. Can sense when you touch and records time. Records heartbeat. If you’re doing a set it will record your time and heartbeat for each round and then graph the information and provide a medium time and heartbeat. Great if our do test sets frequently. Allows you to track progress and record sets along with times. Great if our do test sets frequently. Allows you to track progress and record sets along with times. Takes pool temperature. Allows you to record Race times and sends message with times to coach. Also allows coach to track your progress. Camera to record video of swimming in order to improve stroke technique and also take cool photos of your friends!
28. Machine Shop Safety App: An app to allow workers that are constantly doing manual labor to track their motion and movements so that they can detect strains that develop over time on their muscles and joints.
29. Acceleration for sport-performance analysis: Track changes in motion for fine-tuned and personalized performance analysis. Buzzes if you’re too slow / coach calls. Aids with training by helping with pacing and allowing other people to monitor and encourage you when needed.
30. Alarm clock that monitors your sleep: Track movement of arm, Tells you when you were deep alseep REM and such.
31. Autoshopper: As you walk into a store, the coupons available will automatically load into the app. You can also scan the barcode of an item that you want to purchase and it will automatically load it into your checkout list. That way, you won’t have to scan your items as you get to the counter. You simply have to scan your watch in and pay for your items, making the check-out process much easily and quicker.
32. Universal remote for home: Utilize your watch to control electronics around the house: lights, television, air conditioner.
33. Baby monitor (nanny cam): links to camera at home, can be used to monitor child or monitor your home (watch for crime)
34. Interactive recipes/cooking: Use the watch as you cook to see the next steps/ingredients along with a timer whenever the recipe requires one (for baking lengths)
35. Access control (ID/Keys): Store your wireless identifications (RFID, Car fob codes, access codes) on your watch to prevent the need to carry a lot of things.
36. Digital Ticketing: Users no longer have to carry around physical copies of their ticket and worry about losing it or forgetting it at home. Instead, they can scan their tickets and store it in your phone and simply show it on your watch when you arrive at the venue.
37. Grocery List: Users can create grocery lists on their phone and then access the list on their watch while in the store for more hands-free handling.
38. Tamogatchi: Raise a little pet on your watch! Care for it, feed it, whatever.
39. Tetris: on the watch will show the next piece, where you can use your finger to rotate the piece and then tap to drop. The smart phone will be the actual screen.
40. Drawing Game: an app to help elementary school kids tap into their creative and artistic skills by learning to draw minimally on the watch and then creating a more intricate model on their phone
41. Mafia: Plays the game of Mafia, but with watches / phones so you don’t have to have a moderator.
42. Assassins: Beeps if target close. Your mission should you choose to accept...Play the popular game assassins on your smart watch! The app will assign targets and allow users to keep track of several games at a time. You can attack and defend using weapons that you can pick up at various locations.
43. Spaceteam: Extension of spaceteam so that player actions will also take place on their watch, not just on their phone
44. Pokemon: physically travel to find different types of pokemon. Perhaps battle, or perhaps pokemon snap.
45. Community based random facts by current location: as you pass by a location, your watch will notify you of a fun fact relating to that area. Users can submit fun facts that they can learn to the app.
46. Location based friend finder: you let your watch know that you want to talk to a certain person today. When that person is near you, your watch will notify you
47. Forget me phone: sends you an alert when you get a certain distance away from your phone
48. Geocache vicinity location: An app to help you locate geocaches in your area. If you near the location of one, then your watch will send you a notification alerting you of its presence.
49. Traffic/Crime alert (Points of Interest): Sends an alert if there was an accident or a crime within x distance away from you. If you’re driving, you may want to avoid a congested area. If you’re walking you can avoid being a target.
50. AR parkour: Have a set path throughout the real world and use the watch to mark the path. Users compete to complete the path in the fastest amount of time.
51. Dating app (inconspicuous): Allows you to inconspicuously up vote or down vote a potential suitor on your watch!!! Sends an alert to your watch if a potential suitor is near!
52. Telephone: see image or quote that person before you wrote -- draw or type what you see or an image of what you think they wrote
53. Play-by-Plays: While you are a spectator at a game or event, if you miss an announcement from a ref or a play, you can access the most recent one on your watch. The announcement will display on your watch or you can watch the play on your watch.

We drew up several initial, simple designs for several of our ideas:

Idea Selection:

Assassins Game

Project Description:

Target Group User - Our ideal user group includes various groups ranging from a small group of friends to larger organizations such as student organizations, sports teams and small companies. More specifically, our target group is any collective that is interested in an active and competitive game which helps strengthen personal relationships and camaraderie. An exemplary situation would be integrating new members into an existing establishment by providing a casual environment in which to meet and interact with everyone. Improving and strengthening these interpersonal relationships are intangible benefits that are integral towards an organization’s well being along with being the foundation of long-lasting friendships. We feel that individuals older than 13 would be able to enjoy and fully participate in the game.

Project Description & Context - We found that many social and professional organizations and friend groups would love to play the game Assassins, but lack an easy way to play it. Our goal is provide groups with a interactive, fun, and low-overhead way to build their teams. A key barrier we identified is the requirement for a game moderator, who must coordinate game logistics. Additionally, traditional Assassins games can also result in long, drawn-out games that do not engage most of the original players. This application specifically resolves the requirement for a moderator, which reduces logistical cost as well as speeds up response time. The connected nature of the application enables game interactions not possible in the traditional version, such as automatic safe zones and safe times, modified difficulty at different times, and complex team-based interactions that would be incredibly cumbersome with a human moderator.

Why is a mobile app a good solution for the problem?  - This application depends heavily on users carrying devices with them at all times. Notably, the interaction requires that the user at some point be unaware of their surroundings, while the application is aware of their location. A conventional desktop application wouldn’t allow users to roam the physical world, which is a core element of the experience. A companion smartphone app is necessary to enable easier administration and coordination than with the watch alone. The application eliminates the need for a human moderator, reducing friction in comparison to the non-electronic version of the game.

Why is a smartwatch a good solution for the problem? - Users depend on timely notifications to play this game. The critical notifications produced by our application do not demand rich content and can be checked quickly with minimal disruption in a watch form-factor device. Users do not need to disengage from whatever they are doing to check game notifications (as they might need to on a smartphone). The reduced impact and ubiquity of notifications enable interactions not possible with the traditional and smartphone-only version of the application, such as more reliable and less user-loading “proximity alerts” and reaction-based minigames. In summary, the watch form-factor enables users to rapidly engage and disengage with the game, providing an immersive experience while simultaneously reducing the required distraction and load.

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