Early bird
dream
Wake up and chase the rooster
The Problem
Getting up in the morning without snoozing/dismissing the alarm.
Many of us know the benefits of getting up early in the morning. But we struggle to get out of the bed when the alarm rings. The alarm is always taken for granted. We snooze or dismiss it and continue to sleep.
The Solution
An alarm that makes u get out of the bed. Turn off the alarm through a challenge/game and start the day with an accomplishment.
Insights
How the First 20 Minutes of Your Day Can Set You Up for Success?
Gateway to the subconscious mind.
The first 20mins of your day is called the gateway to the subconscious mind.
Don't ever click your alarm's snooze button. This tells your brain it's OK to procrastinate by putting your day on hold.
Alpha state
The brain produces electrical patterns, often referred to as waves. Scientists have found a correlation between the frequency of brain waves and the body's state. When you first awake, your brain operates at around 10.5 waves per second. The range from eight to 13 Hz, or cycles per second, is the alpha stage.
Have you ever gone into a semi-daydreaming state while commuting? A few minutes pass, but you don't remember what happened. It's likely your brain entered the alpha state.
Positive start
Waking up early and sticking to your routine will help you get more done. But whether you get out of bed at 5 a.m. or 3 p.m., it's the first 20 minutes of your day that can set you up for success.
How people woke up, Pre-Alarm clock
Breaking up is hard to do, and so is waking up. From cave to the luxury condo, let's see mankind's greatest advances in wakeup tech.
2020
Early bird
First of a kind AR alarm
Concept
Early bird is an Augmented reality-based alarm that works with geo-tagging. This app will have a virtual rooster crowing in the morning from any room inside the user’s home. The user has to get out of the bed, search and find the rooster to turn-off the alarm.
This gives a positive kick start to the day with an excitement and accomplishment.
UI design
01.Set time
02.Set boundary
Click here to unmute audio.
03.Find rooster
Experience design for Augmented reality
Environment as interface
Let’s begin with physical considerations. Now that we’re no longer designing for a flat-screen we have to consider the entire environment around a user as a potential interface. Within that space, there are many human factors that shape what is comfortable.
Visual cues
The visual cues encourage the user to look around and denote off-screen elements.
The direction of the arrows guides the user towards the rooster’s location.
The distance between the rooster and the user is displayed to show the proximity.
Sound cues
Like VR, Sound is used to tell the user about the off-screen obnjects
The alarm starts with the rooster's crowing sound.
User has to option to choose his/her favorite song from the device or link Spotify account. The user’s favorite song will create a better mood while waking up.
The song plays in the background and crowing sounds will be also played in between until the user finds the rooster.
Haptic feedback
Vibration
Use of touch to communicate with users.
The phone’s vibration increases as the user gets near the rooster.
Conclusion
Working on my first AR Project was an interesting experience. It helped me learn to design affordance with 3D objects in real-life environments.
There is no interaction paradigm for AR/VR, so it gives a lot of freedom to explore new possibilities. I think the most important thing for anyone wanting to understand virtual and mixed reality better is to start playing with it. Since AR/VR has become mainstream, I am hoping to experiment with a lot more AR/VR projects in the future.
