PROJECT 03 : UI Design

Design of a Voice User Interface for a health tracker application with respect to walking exercise for Indian elderly.

Greetings...

FITNESS Mantra

An Indian �itness app for the Indian elderly

FITNESS Mantra

Mr. Someone

Swipe up to dashboard

Two of the major reasons for early decline of physical fitness in Indian elderly are lack of good exercise and unhealthy food habits.

Studies have proven that, use of fitness apps and wearable tracking devices give increased motivation to elderly to maintain healthy lifestyle.

Designing a fitness app for Indian elderly, who have very little familiarity with digital media, has to consider particular aspects to ensure comfortable user experience.

• Guided UI

• Large Text

• Indian Language Voice Input and talkback

This presentation is a design proposal for a voice user interface for ‘FITNESS Mantra’, a fitness app with respect to walking exercise for Indian elderly.

Young generation is mostly noted to use smartphones with single hand. The elderly, especially Indian, tends to hold phone in one hand, mostly left, and touch the screen with the other. Hence, the UI is designed with a centre focussed approach to adapt to the elderly.

Voice guided registration process to ease the unfamiliarity of the indian elderly, making the first experience simple and interactive.

The process is designed as a series of inputs, one per screen, with voice asking the user to enter data.

The Logo displays a pulsating animation while the voice speaks to the user, to enhance the user - app interaction.

Registration begins with;

“Hai, I’m Casper, your �itness assistant. What can I call you?”

FITNESS

Mantra and the screen shows up a type in bar and keyboard pops up for the user to enter name.

“Are you a male or a female?” and the screen shows options to choose from. Thus continues.

On completion of registration, app shows dashboard and voice guides through the UI

Swipe up to register Fitness App First Startup Screen

Visual interface is maintained to be minimal as the app is primaily designed to be voice interactive.

Greetings...

FITNESS

Mantra

Mr. Someone

Voice Assistant Summon button is placed at middle bottom with halo to emphasise, for easy recogenition for the Indian elderly. A fluctuating pulse with a summon sound is given to indicate listening. The app gives responses as voice and also shows as text on screen.

Listening...

Hey Casper... How far am I from reachig the target today?

Hello ‘Someone’, Youve completed 1,400m today, 600m more to go.

How can I analyse my recent walking stat?

Swiping left from your dashboard, you’ve a profile tab. There is a graph that shows ...

An interactive voice user interface for a fitness tracker app can make people more interested into following schedule and meeting targets everyday : A driving force to keep walking and to keep using the app.

People seek motivation to continue doing routines everyday. Especially when it comes to physical exercise like walking, elderly require a driving force to keep walking to meet daily target.

The app’s voice assistant, Casper, is designed to keep the user engaged reminding about daily walking exercise. Casper appreciates users on successful completion of daily targets, suggests methods and tips to stay focussed on to the target, and complain if the user chooses to ignore walking exercise continuously.

Being a live charecter that interacts with the user through voice and vision, Casper can reserve a space in users mind, thus increase interest for the exercise.

Don’t be lazy....

Come on, Lets go for a walk..

Eighth Semester B. Arch Dissertation:

Smarter Homes ?

A study on extent of ef�iciency of Home Automation Technology towards energy conservation and its Possibilities in Kerala

AIM:

To compare and prove the efficiency of home automation technology towards energy conservation and its possibilities in Kerala.

OBJECTIVES:

01. To study the technology and possibilities of home automation systems

02. To study the methods and practices towards energy conservation in general, and specifically in Kerala

03. To identify the scope of domotics towards energy conservation in the context of Kerala

04. To calculate total average annual energy savings.

05. To recognize limitations of execution of automation technology in Kerala

“We’re at the beginning of a golden age of AI. Recent advancements have already led to invention that previously lived in the realm of science �iction – and we’ve only scratched the surface of what’s possible”

-Jeff Bezos CEO of Amazon

-Warren

Energy conservation has become an alarming necessity of the present day. Major power consumption in a household is for artificial lighting and ventilation, which can be reduced by incorporating solar passive measures. This dissertation focuses on the effect of Smart Automation systems on the energy consumption of households

Smart buildings integrate technology and the IoT to provide solutions to the age-old issues of overspend and inefficiency in building construction and use. With the use of sensors, such as occupancy and people counters, actionable data about how the buildings is really used can be gathered to enable it to perform better.

Energy efficiency is at high demand these days, and man is trying all possible ways to achieve the same. Buildings are on the front line of this issue because of their high consumption of energy. Automation technology is definitely the immediate next advancement in the queue among developments in building technology towards comfort and sophistication.

“With the IoT, we’re headed to a world where things aren’t liable to break catastrophically – or at least, we’ll have a hell of a heads’ up. We’re headed to a world where our doors unlock when they sense us nearby”

-Scott Weiss Assistant Professor of Classics, Knox College

HYPOTHESIS:

Proper installation and use of automation technology smart devices and systems can reduce average electricity consumption of a typical household to 85 percent or lesser of present-day value.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE:

• Energy efficiency is on high demand these days. Automation technology is a next advancement in building technology in Kerala.

• Since the technology is not widely implemented in the state so far, such a study shall help to foresee the possible issues at execution level.

• It’ll also help to outline strategies and guidelines on efficiently implementing automation to minimize energy requirements

OUTCOME:

The present-day building practices in Kerala has compromised many solar passive aspects of the traditional Kerala architecture as a result of changes in the social, cultural and lifestyle evolution over time.

Automation can act as a bridge to achieve the merits of the traditional architecture maintaining the present-day building practices. For example,

• A glazed opening with an automated blinds shutter can control the heat gain through exterior surfaces. The advantage of extended roof to shade the walls can be achieved, at the same time, allows more light and heat when required thus eliminating a limitation of the traditional architecture.

CONCLUSION:

Proper installation and use of automation technology smart devices and systems can reduce average electricity consumption of a typical household in Kerala to 85% or lesser of present-day value.