By

Team Bacon

Stephen Stewart

Max Howell

Jake Howes

Rhodri Coleman

• 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

“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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 PlatformSleep 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

[MVP user stories and feature chosen]

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.

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

Main Menu Set alarm Difficulty These are the screens for the main menu app as you can set the alarm, play the game and change the difficulty

Maze A Maze B Maze C Maze D Big Snooze

Maze End maze screen

These screens show the levels throughout the game.

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.