syltaris / nusext-kludge

NUS Orbital 2016 Team Kludge

'Wake Me Up!'

Team Name

Team Kludge

Project Members

Chong Ze Xuan, Tan Yu Peng

Proposed Level of Achievement

Apollo 11

Scope of Project

• Alarm Clock application with Social Interaction Element

• Generally targeted towards people who have trouble waking up with conventional alarm clocks.

Brief Description

We intend to create a fun and interactive alarm clock application that will change the way how people start their day. This application will make people look forward to waking up in the morning by providing peer-to-peer activities for people to interact with and help each other wake up.

We investigated the current issues that people are commonly having as well as looking it from our perspectives and found that people generally have issues waking up in the morning. Many of them have the need to set multiple alarms in very short and unecessary intervals which is ineffective and also have the habit of snoozing their alarms frequently. These people do not get an adequate amount of sleep due to poor sleeping schedules and habits. We plan to tackle these issues to some extent with the help our of application.

Completed Functionality:

• Basic alarm clock functionality (ie. add/remove alarm, dismiss/snooze function, game dismissal activity
• Remind people to sleep on time with sleep scheduler and reminders

Planned Features:

• More interactive alarm dismissal activities (Pong game, )
• VOIP (eg. wake up friends through voice, piano soundboard)
• FaceBook integration (eg. optionally posts shame post if snooze too many times)
• Scoring system where dismissing alarm on time rewards points, points used to Snooze alarm

Workflow

[07 June 2016] Basic App functionality and GUI (feature 1)

[10 June 2016] Polishing and refining of app

[17 June 2016] Creation of additional feature to fulfil MVP (feature 2)

[20 June 2016] Polishing and refining of app + bug fixing

[25 June 2016] Research and Development done for Planned Features

[05 July 2016] Creation of networking framework (planned feature 1,2)

[15 July 2016] Creation of interactive framework (planned feature 1,2)

[25 July 2016] Completion of App (Milestone 3)

Motivation

We find ourselves having trouble waking up in the morning as we tend to oversleep even with alarms set or even sleeping through the alarm itself. We think that there could be a solution to this issue by re-thinking how the alarm clock could have functioned instead of simply having a snooze/dismiss function only.

User Stories

• As a normal user, I want to be able to wake up reliably on time by setting an alarm at a specific time and a preferred ringtone.
• As a normal user, I want to have automatically scheduled repeating alarms if needed.
• As a normal user, I want to have know when to start sleeping for adequate rest by having a simple reminder notification.
• As a normal user, I want to have fun waking up through interactive dismiss activities such as solving complicated math questions, winning a pong game, scoring points for dismissing the alarm on time. (points used to allow snoozing alarms more frequently)
• As a friend of the normal user, I want to have fun waking up my friends whilst ensuring they do wake up on time through activities like annoying them with a soundboard, screaming at them, etc.
• As a community/group, I want to ensure everyone can wake up and be on time for scheduled meetings or activities by being able to check if everyone has woken up already (through whether they have dismissed/snooze their alarms) and wake them up manually if they're not.