Better Work Habits

We have decided to go ahead with the health and well being app aimed as student study habit. That main reason for this is because it concerns a large majority (if not all of us) in this class. It would also help prevent injury such as RSI (repetitive strain injury) and would help improve your study habits with regular breaks. Another contributing factor which cause us to settle on this idea is the fact that it is something we would use and benefit from having.

We're all rather excited about our idea and our initial discussion have  led to a rather large scope
- time based reminders to stretch eat and walk
- quirky comments using weather such as
-”It’s warm outside – take a lunch break in the sun” (using real weather data)
- “You had BurgerFuel for lunch yesterday – why not try Subway?” (using gps locations and maybe user input)
- “You only had 4 hours of sleep last night – time to head home” (using time from the last time you touched your phone and when your alarm clock went off)
- blocking distracting apps such as facebook, tumblr and youtube but notifying you on your break
- offering rewards such as chocolate bars after your goals have been achieved (goals would be set at the start of the day)
- reminding you what assignments you have due and what is required (ie you have an essay due in 3 days – have you written a draft?)

The app has the potentially to be a full on organisation app however we are going to start by focusing on the working hours of it and the health side as we know as students we have really bad habits. We need to figure out a realistic scope but think we’ll present an idea that can be expanded on.