GearGotch

Geargotch

1. The new Tamagotchi reflecting the user's act

Tamagotchi is compound Japanese word "Tamago(egg)" and "Watch", which is a well-matched game with smart-watch Gear2. This new Tamagotchi has been reconfigured with health-care system which a lot of people are concerned about lately. This project aims to create a strong connection between the leisure and sports activities such as walking, running and hiking, and the traditional role of Tamagotchi, raising a character within a device.

2. Applying 'Gamification' strategy to make exercises more enjoyable

Gamifiation is a compound word of 'Game' and 'Fiction'. This allows user to enjoy games and introduces more uses to participate. In this project, as users exercise, their characters in Tamagotchi grow as well. This phenomenon creates a synergetic effect for people to exercise together as it induces them to take part in. Also, as their character grows, users can get additional characters as rewards. They can get various characters. Depending on the work-progress and methods of exercise, users can make different accomplishment to collect a number of characters. Users can be committed to various exercise and make a healthy community as more users join and obtain more advantages.

3. Stimulating a desire for exercise through competition

People are motivated to have a objective perspective and find new ways for solutions through competition. This project provides a few functions in order to make people have that competitive sense. The target of competitions is Healthy GearGotch users, SNS users or your acquaintances . Furthermore, with a simple operation, users can check the gap between others and themselves. Also, they can search for the exercising condition and the progress of exercising of others if accessing the other's page.

4. Recommendation through Analyzing user's exercise patterns

We try to develop the new system to provide various recommendations by collecting accumulated exercises, route of exercises, patterns, movement time and strengths from the users. According to the analyzed data from the users’ information, I can get recommended friends who are matched with my exercising route and time and exercise together. This new system places your friends in order by analyzing how close they are to you in Facebook.

5. Exercise Report to record my routines

This project provides 'History' operation to track and record the exercising rate, pattern, route and time automatically. Any activity that users performed, heart-rate, locations and pictures will be recorded. The other users can access my 'History' and can check details of my activities.

6. UI/UX maximizing the advantage of Samsung Gear2

Samsung Gear2 is a wearable device that are worn on wrists. Living up to user's response about watch-type of device, it is planned to make application operation more comfortable and faster. As it is a watch-type of device, it needs hand gestures and performing. This can also provide well-fitted interface. For instance, if users want to exercise together, they could start a match by shaking hands. Whey they compete with each other, UX scenario that competition would be shaped will be provided by grazing each other’s watch.