Includoo

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  Logo

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  Event Invite

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  Gamification

Inspiration

Couple of people in our team started new jobs in March during the pandemic in a remote setting. INCLUDOO is inspired from their experiences on coping up with the situation. When you are new to a company, you do not know your colleagues well & it is not easy to bond well over pure video calls.

What it does

INCLUDOO is an intelligent Meetup organizer application which allows companies to increase employee social interaction and creativity through intelligent team bonding events. INCLUDOO tries to increase the strength of the connections in the company by setting up appointments between weakly connected & strongly connected employees in the company by suggesting an event that is interesting for both using a novel graph based approach.

INCLUDOO collects information about the strength of relationships between employees based on the exchanges between them through their email (GSuite, Outlook, etc), instant message conversations (Slack, Teams, etc). Additionally, each employee can select their preferences every week on what they want to do that week (watch a movie, do some sports, cooking, eat out, etc) along with rough timeslots of when they want to do it (lunch, weekaday afterwork or weekend) & also whether they would like to do it virtually or in person. Based on the strengths & their preferences, the employees are matched to ensure maximum connectivity within the company.

Another potential data point we explored for our integration is the use of the computer by the employees by tracking their usage of the Logitech keyboard & mice with their workflows & sensors. These data points could potentially indicate if some person is stressed out or requires attention of someone else in the team. These data points would not be sent to the cloud & only the inferences are shared from the local machine.

Some of the virtual events are also directly connected to external services like watching videos together or reservations to local restaurants.

To incentivise employees to utilize the platform, gamification is introduced in the system with points being allocated for each activity. These points are shown on the company leaderboard with tiered rewards including rewards for the entire company on the overall performance of the company.

There is a conscious effort to only collect the information that is necessary.

How I built it

We built the backend in Python using the Django Rest Framework. Additionally, we integrated with the GSuite to get the connection strength based on the email exchanges. We developed a Chrome extension that integrates Includoo on the GSuite platform including the calendar & the email.

Challenges I ran into

The main challenges were in realizing the authentication of Google services.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

INCLUDOO’s team is proud of creating a revolutionary app that will increase employee and company satisfaction & creativity.
We managed to integrate & extract the contact strengths between employees based on their exchanges. The graph based matching approach to increase the overall network strength in the company is also quite novel.

What I learned

INCLUDOO’s team learned a great deal about how to creatively measure employee connectivity in order to help increase social interaction, whilst being very mindful of privacy.

What's next for INCLUDOO

INCLUDOO is slated for upgrades in the following areas: Automated Meetup space reservations, “Quick Meets!” - Options meet your colleagues quickly during the work day to inspire creativity, Hardware based metrics to measure your performance and temperament and suggest events to keep you balanced.

Built With

INCLUDOO is built from Python & fair amount of Javascript & CSS.

Built With

• apis
• django
• gsuite
• postgresql