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Project Goal:
Project Goal:
Designing a smartwatch app to accompany a personal air quality monitoring device.
Assumptions:
WE have the ambient air quality information (particulate matters and volatile organic compounds) in real-time, a complete geotagged personal history of ambient air quality, and cumulative personal exposure to air pollution data.
Target population is adults of ages 15 to 50 with no significant cognitive or motor limitations affecting their interaction with a smartwatch.
The design objectives were:
The design objectives were:
1. Awareness about air quality
2. Allowing users to share their awareness and foster a broader public awareness
3. Persuading users to reduce long-term exposure to air pollution or bad air quality
Link to my design prototype:
Screenshots
Screenshots
Video of the prototype:
How the core design objectives were met:
How the core design objectives were met:
- Awareness about air quality
Since they have a personal air quality monitoring device, the main page after opening the application will show the AQI number (which most people are familiar with) provided by their device (range: 1 meter). Used color for showing the condition (Good, Moderate, etc.)
Since it’s an air quality application, there is another page that they can go by swiping left and it includes AQI for the larger range in the current location (area in a city). This feature can be extended for other locations (ex. most frequently visited or a specific location added by the user). This can be set up in the mobile app so they can swipe left again to see those locations information.
If they are more familiar with the air quality terms and indexes they can scroll down to see those indexes with their measuring units and their current or most recently updated value (colors can be changed for them also based on value).
2. Allowing users to share their awareness and foster a broader public awareness
2. Allowing users to share their awareness and foster a broader public awareness
In each page of the application there is a share button at the bottom of the page, when they click on it there will be a prepulated message/photo based on the information on that page, and they can share that in social media or send via direct message (applications to be used can be chosen in the mobile app instead of watch).
3. Persuading users to reduce long-term exposure to air pollution or bad air quality
3. Persuading users to reduce long-term exposure to air pollution or bad air quality
Since we have access to their cumulative exposure data we can show this information to users in different ways so they can track their exposure and minimize the exposure to bad air quality:
By swiping right from the homepage they will see their daily exposure information (divided by hours and color shows the condition). They can also see the percentage of the air quality condition that the device tracked on that date until the current time.
By swiping right another time from the daily exposure screen, they go to a past two weeks screen which they can see the average exposure in each day. Colors show the condition and gray means the data is not available on that date (they didn’t use the device on that day).
Another way here to encourage the users to avoid exposure to bad air quality is to provide them some information based on activities they can do or they should avoid based on the current AQI in their location. Some of those activities are walking, biking, opening windows (they can further customize these activities using their mobile app).
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