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BreakTime Project Pitch

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BreakTime Project Pitch

This is a proposal for an Android App idea as a part of CSCI 5115 at the University of Minnesota.

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September 25, 2014
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Transcript

  1. BreakTime Effective Pomodoro

  2. The Team Nathaniel Balas Patrick Severin Matthew Lewis Kevan Ahlquist

  3. People Need Help Avoiding Distractions Staying Motivated Managing time

  4. BreakTime Gamification Structure Surprise + +

  5. –John Q. Student “I’ll spend all weekend studying for that

    Monday exam.”

  6. 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 0 min 30 min 60

    min 90 min 120 min Facebook Twitter Focus Netflix Snapchat Pinterest Reddit Youtube Wikipedia Amazon Blogspot Imgur GoT marathon…

  7. People want to study the benefits of studying But… Focusing

    for a long time is hard

  8. Solution: Don’t ask people to focus for a long time

  9. None

  10. What is Pomodoro? Short work intervals Frequent breaks + 25

    min 5 min

  11. Breaks are short don’t require deep thinking will take about

    5 minutes So… Suggest activities that are fun to do
  12. None

  13. Weekly Study Goals CSCI 5115 CSCI 4707 HIST 1803 0

    2.5 5 7.5 10 Completed Goal Make it a game Almost there! Needs work

  14. BreakTime Gamification Structure Surprise + +

  15. Questions?