2. • Who?
Students/ Gamers
• What?
Young people who need to get up for study or work
• When?
Early Morning
• Where?
In the bedroom
• Why?
Too easy to turn off alarm and snooze and go back to bed
3. “Too easy to snooze”
Mark:
Full time student / part time job
“Busy Student”
Has to get to work, has to get to college, He says he is
unhappy as he snoozes a lot even when his alarm wakes him up
which makes him late for college and work, and instead of
snoozing he wants to wake up, get up and go.
4. How do we stop people snoozing and motivate them to get out of
bed?
We have found within our user interviews that many young people
snooze regularly and this stops people getting to college / work on
time.
5. 1) People who have problems waking up in the morning currently try to
use an alarm clock. This solution does not work because people just hit
the snooze button and go back to sleep.
Our key insight is that people DO wake up in the morning, but they just
hit the snooze button and go back to sleep. We aim to stop them snoozing
by making them play a quick minigame before they can snooze. By the
end of the minigame the user will feel energised and awake, and the user
will feel ready to get up in the morning.
6. Team bacon is developing a native app for ios
to help young people, students / gamers to get up in the morning by
stopping them using the snooze button with a persistent alarm that
can’t be cancelled until the user completes a game.
7. Kyle Harmer
Full time student/ part time job
About Kyle Harmer:
Full time student/ part time job
Leyland
Busy student
Wake up
To get up in the morning
Have good alarm tunes
Be stimulated with the minigames
Not happy as his mornings are stressful and tedious
Rob
Full time student
About Rob:
Full time student, Runshaw College
Horwich
Busy student
Wake up
To get up in the morning
Have good alarm tunes
Be stimulated with the minigames
Not happy as he uses snooze a lot as well as rushing in a morning to get to college
Ben Garrett
Study support Runshaw College staff
About Ben:
ESW at Runshaw college and Preston college
Preston
Busy staff member
Get out of the house on time
Wake up
Be stimulated with the minigames
Have good alarm tunes
Not happy as he wants to be disciplined so that he doesn’t back to sleep
These are some of the user
profiles that we collected.
There are 10 user profiles
including the ones on
screen with many saying
they use snooze regularly in
the morning and would like
to stop snoozing in the
morning.
8. We feel our solution is better than any other as ours provides a simple game that makes the user feel more
awake in the morning, and give the user some enjoyment whilst waking up and making them more motivated
to get up.
The other competitors don’t solve the problem as they are only gimmicks. They do work as alarm clocks;
however our solution provides not only a way to wake up but, they minimize the opportunity to snooze in
the morning.
We also found that the other competitors use music or gimmicks to wake the user and don’t focus on
preventing the overuse of the snooze button.
Alarm name Price Features Platform
Sleep Cycle alarm clock 0.69£ Tracks your sleeping pattern IOS
Alarm clock HD free free use your own music and link to social networks IOS
The clocks: Alarm clock, world clock free Displays different clocks and times for other countires IOS
Alarm clock pro 0.69£ use your own music and see weather / customization IOS
Sleep time alarm clock free Analyse's your sleep pattern/ best time to wake up IOS
Walk Me Up free/ unknown price for more features Stops the alarm when you walk a certain distance IOS
Maths Alarm Clock free Solve a maths question to turn off the alarm IOS
Nightstand central: a music alarm clock app free wake up to your own music and fall alsleep with your music IOS
idigital big2 alarm clock app free Displays the alarm big to help those with poor sight IOS
Wave Alarm motion control alarm clock app free use gestures to turn the alarm off IOS
Wake N Shake alarm clock 1.49£ Shake your phone to shut the alarm off IOS
CARROT alarm 1.49£ Tasks where you upgrade and have a sentinet voice to wake up you Android
Bomax - The Cranky alarm 0.99$ Play minigames to shut the alarm off Android
FeakyAlarm app 1.99$ Play minigames and scan items to turn off the alarm IOS/Andoid
9. As someone who has important
deadlines, I want the alarm to
get me out of bed so that I am
not missing important
deadlines.
Functional/Emotional, personal It is functional as the user
wants to meet a deadline, its
emotional as they will feel good
if they meet the deadline.
As a user I would want the app
to make sure I am awake and
ready for the morning if need a
shower or I am running late.
Functional It is functional as the user
requires the alarm to wake
them up and get the user to
have a shower.
As a user, I want the alarm to
reactivate after 30 seconds of
inactivity.
Functional It is functional as the alarm is
working to meet the users
requirements.
Feature:
Setting alarm time
Noisy alarm
Can’t snooze until
game is complete
User story. Functional/Emotional. Reason why they are
functional, emotional.
10. Through testing we found that, users
would want the levels for each
difficulty to be around:
Easy: 30 seconds
Medium: 15 seconds
Hard: 11 seconds
11. Main Menu Set alarm DifficultyThese are the screens for
the main menu app as
you can set the alarm,
play the game and
change the difficulty
12. Maze A
Maze B Maze C Maze D Big Snooze
Maze
End maze
screen
These screens show the levels throughout the game.
13. This transition goes
from the menu to the
maze A
This transitions
from maze A to
maze B
This transitions
from maze B to
maze C
This transitions
from maze C to
maze D
This transitions
from maze D to Big
Snooze Maze
This transitions
from Big Snooze
Maze to End maze
screen
This transitions
from End maze
screen back to the
main menu
The main menu
button always goes
back to the first
screen. You set the
alarm on the second
screen and chose the
difficulty on the third
screen.
Key:
Flow of the maze
Go's to the main
menu
Go’s to another
option screen (set
alarm and difficulty)
14. This an embedded demo of
you snooze, you lose.
The first screen of the game is the menu
where you can navigate to access the
difficulty options (these are placeholders),
the set alarm option (this is a placeholder).
The start game button will transition you
into the game, you navigate the game by
using the arrow keys and direct the player
towards the stairs so that you can progress
to the end and turn off the alarm.
Whilst going through the levels, you still
hear the alarm in the background which
will play throughout until you complete the
game also, the layout of the menus would
be the same on a mobile device but this
prototype is designed to be played on a
keyboard.
Embedded demo not working?
Click this link to the team
bacon you snooze you lose
maze app prototype.
15. Our app doesn’t rely on data from external sources and it would be possible to
run independently on a mobile device.
Our app is technically feasible as we have already created the prototype;
however, we could develop the app further with more time and investment and
then move the prototype from a PC to a mobile device.
We created the app in Stencyl which has the facility to port the game onto
mobile devices that run : IOS and Android.
16. We have decided to make the app free. The app will have advertisements that you can
pay to disable.
We made this decision because we want as many people as possible to use the app so
that we can get maximise ad revenue.
If the user pays a small sum of money (69p) then the ads will be disabled for that user.
We collected 6 customer pledges which said users would pay around 69p to £2 for the
app. However, because users are comfortable with adverts in apps, we feel that having
in app advertisements wouldn't take away from the experience of the app for the users.
17. We will need to advertise our app to a wide audience, we will go by this by doing the
following:
• Social media marketing: For example we will advertise on Facebook, Twitter, and other
social media sites.
• Open evening at Runshaw College, for example we will demonstrate the app to users
and let them try the app for themselves.
• For our marketing strategy we are going to use guerrilla marketing for example: we
would let the public or college test the app with the prototype and get lots of feedback
to generate more word of mouth.
18. This YouTube channel is team bacons YouTube where you can see the
progress of our app development with some extra videos showing
more of Team Bacon.
