WORK IT

Splash Screen
Calorie bar fills up
Shows food equivalency of calories burned

Inspiration

Most people don't realize the amount of effort it takes to burn off what they eat. This is why we designed the WORKIT app for the Pebble smartwatch.

How we built it

The Pebble smartwatch offers several APIs to gather data about health. By combining this data with online research, we were able to code our app using Pebble SDK 3 on a Pebble Time rented from the Hardware Lab.

What it does

Our app combines two aspects of physical well-being: exercise and diet. We want to make people aware of the time and effort it takes to burn off, let's say, a few M&M's or a single donut. With each calorie burned, a meter on the watch screen fills, approaching a milestone. After the user reaches a milestone, the application congratulates the user and displays a photo of the food equivalency of calories burned at that point. These milestones provide an intuitive sense of something more than just a number of calories.

Challenges we ran into

All members of the team are first-year students, participating in our first Hackathon. The majority have never worked on a GUI-based project, so the first hours of the Hackathon consisted of learning how to incorporate our ideas into the Pebble.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

First, we are so proud that we managed to complete a prototype at our first hackathon. We applied our knowledge and were able to work together as a team to reach our goal of making our idea a reality.

What we learned

As a team, we learned how to synthesize our ideas and apply them to achieve our goal of making an app. Mostly it was a long night of research and learning together! We saw the C language in a very applied form, and this helped to make us more aware of everything that the C programming language has to offer. We are also now more aware of how to make apps on our own since this task seemed daunting just a week ago.

What's next for WORK IT

We hope to improve the user interface for WORK IT by adding more statistics for a more complete report on a workout. We want to encourage people to use this app throughout the day to be aware of the calories they are burning at any given time.

Built With

c
pebble
watch-app

Submitted to

HackDavis

Created by

I did research regarding how a healthy diet and exercise were related. In addition, I helped with the idea and design of the food equivalency window. I also composed the project submission.

Veronica Contreras
I worked on creating separate windows that pop up when a number of calories are burned. They integrate motivational text and real time animations from environmental input factors.

Parker Luft
I animated the cornerstone of our app, the "calorie bar," as well as merging my teammates' code into one final product.

Joshua Prince
I focused my work on integrating the Pebble's built in Health application to gather information in real time about the user's calories burnt while walking and/or running.

Amber Graham
I worked on initially linking our code to the physical smartwatch device as well as integrating the buttons on the watch to switch screens.

Iyesha Puri