HorizonTake your productivity to a new Horizon

Presenter: Danudet Boonyakamol, Enrique DominguezGroup members: James Okada, Wing Lam

Overall Problem

People are not as productive as they would like to be for many reasons.

High Level Solution

Provides ways for everyone to be more productive by understanding productive

practices.

Overview

• Contextual Inquiry

• Updated Tasks & Scenarios

• Design Evolution

• Current UI & Demonstration

• Future Enhancements

• Summary

Contextual Inquiry

Watch participant student and interview them.

Simple Representative task:Keeping track of tasks needed to be completed

• Productive people keeps track of tasks in some way

Moderate representative task:Choose rewards based on users’ interests

• Gives incentive to start & continue working (Pete) 1

• Reduce overall stress (Derek) 1

1 From Contextual Inquiry

Complex representative task:Study with controlled distraction

• Affects productivity greatly (Max, Pete)1

1 From Contextual Inquiry

Design evolution: Initial sketches

• Tabs

• Reward point

• Tools concept

Design evolution: Lo-fi prototype

• iOS conventions

• 1 to 1 scale to iPhone4screen

Design evolution: Lo-fi problems

• Tools concept

• Tab

• Reward points

• Tasks’ information

• Importing a syllabus function

Design evolution: Limited tools system

• Application blocking

Design evolution: Remove navigation bar

• Consolidate tabs

Design evolution: Improve reward system

• Automaticallycalculate rewardpoints

Design evolution: Added task description

• Clear tasksdescription

Design evolution: Clear way to start tasks

• All relatedinformationdisplays asneeded

Design evolution: Improve import and create task

• Combine “add task”buttons

Current UI

Scenario 1

• Import a working schedule tothe application

Current UI

Scenario 2

• Work on Assignment1 withcontrolleddistraction

Current UI

Scenario 3

• Pick a reward afterfinish working

Current UI

Demonstration

Idea for future enhancement

• Systemlearningfrom human

Idea for future enhancement

• Human learning from system

Idea for future enhancement

• “Gamification” of productiveness and group productivity

Summary

• Horizon seeks to help people increase their productivity by utilizing “known” productive practice.

• Thank you!

• Presentation link:https://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/440/13wi/projects/horizon/reports.php