The overabundance and ease of accessibility to task managing applications these days have made scheduling tasks easier. However, scheduling a task doesn't guarantee the execution of one, in another words, a Procrastinator will schedule and ignore thereafter. Therefore, the idea of "Rings of Success" germinated after understanding the basic barrier for task completion for a procrastinator. This barrier is called "Instant Gratification Monkey"
After years of behavioral psychology research, today user experience designers have been able to create beautiful interfaces for task scheduling applications. However, the very fundamental science of notifications is, in a word, alarming. Therefore, soon after the launch of these applications, user started disabling notifications in there devices, which were subdivided by the place they appear: lock screen, notification center, and banners.
With Rings of Success, we envision to give our user the power to create notifications for oneself. The user does so after completing a task. The intent is to spark motivation in the user by glancing at the tasks done instead of looking at the list of "To Do" tasks.
While ideating this concept, we often referred to our learnings from the class reading: Rogers Y, Hazlewood W, Marshall P, Dalton NS, Hertrich S, (2010) Ambient Influence: Can Twinkly Lights Lure and Abstract Representations Trigger Behavioral Change?, UbiComp 2010
After reading this paper, we realized the power ambient devices behold in persuading or changing behavior in a workplace setting.
As visually bright colors and layers of complexity, like a mix pop-ups are hard to look away. Therefore, our concept also includes a dashboard in our studio to display the state of synergy. This display is engineered to collect data from each "Rings of Success" device inside studio's ecosystem.
We believe that applications of this kind of influence can be quite profound.
The build process started by using th LED matrix to determine the outside diameter of the cylinder required for to which the matrix would attach. The size was marked out on a piece of maple, and precisely turned on a lathe. The inside of the cylinder was hollowed out to allow for positioning of the particle, wiring, and button. Next, we calculated the required size for the acrylic cover, lasercut it to size, and formed it using a heat gun to match the radius of the mounted LED matrix. Finally, we laser-cut plywood rings to capture and secure the acrylic cover around the cylinder.
For future iterations, we want to experiment with the communication within two Rings of Success devices. If the team member A finishes a task and presses the button, how would that reflect on the other team member B's device.
Secondly, we propose to introduce more playful iterations of animation on the matrix. Other ideas for display shared below are categorised as per the personalities of the users:
Inspired by IDEO: The Big Green Button https://labs.ideo.com/2016/07/21/the-big-green-button/
Actual Finish Fields by Office 365. : https://support.office.com/en-us/article/actual-finish-fields-3894a632-76ae-4726-9640-575dafad0a7f
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