ABUSE

How can swapping watches be avoided?

What about general misuse of technology and screen addiction?

• Design feature that addresses this potential issue: texting, web surfing, or photographing will NOT be available on the watch.

ENHANCED FOCUS

Would students want to take this home and is there concern about losing it?

• Feedback from Innocademy students that addresses this potential issue: Students when interviewed late in the process indicated that they would like to have the watch at home to help them track their homework assignments. Many of them did not have their own digital device at home, and like that this would be theirs alone.

Will the snooze button be helpful or will you just keep hitting it?

Under what situations would you wear the glasses? Is it important for them to be customizable?

• Design feature that addresses this potential issue: The customization will make the glasses a trendy fashion item. The hope is that, over time, the functional value will keep students wearing them if they lose interest in the customization aspect.

IMPROVED SOCIO-EMOTIONAL HEALTH

Will there be too much frivolous emotional information sent to the teacher?

With all this technology, will face to face interaction be lost? Is there a way to include human interaction through the watch?

• Design feature that addresses this potential issue: The interactions are human to human... they are just discreet.
• Design feature that addresses this potential issue: texting, web surfing, or photographing will NOT be available on the watch.

Are pop culture, sports and other meta- interests too simplistic of a way to find real friends. What about personal profiles that are in depth and could be shared?

Would you be more likely to use the watch responsibly if you were rewarded for wearing it?

What would you do to prevent students from switching watches? And/or bullies taking their watches off?

GENERAL

Are there too many problems being solved? Should the design be paired down to one or two problems instead of a whole spectrum of issues. What seems to be the most important issue to the students?

Are the glasses adding value? Are they worth the extra cost?

Can it be a Cloud based software that can run on any device like a chrome book, watch or phone?

• Design feature that addresses this potential issue: texting, web surfing, or photographing will NOT be available on the watch.. so it can be separate technology from more distracting products like phones.
• Design feature that addresses this potential issue: the communication and data is available on the cloud for teachers and parents that can be accessed on any device.

We have to make the kids want to wear this watch, what features would do this?

• Feedback from Innocademy students that addresses this potential issue: Students when interviewed early in the process indicated that any technology allowed in the classroom is very desirable. Partly because it is usually forbidden fruit and also because most students are technology natives and/or are surrounded by technology narratives in the media and real life.

Are kids okay with being tracked?

• Feedback from Innocademy students that addresses this potential issue: Tracking is fine on school grounds. They already feel tracked at school because of all the analog systems already utilized to know where all the students are at any given time. They did not want to be tracked at home. They desired a separation from home and school that they could not really articulate.

UI/UX

The circle, diamond, square symbol system requires memorization:

• reference the noun project for icon ideas and reference the built environment.
• Think about a shape/container that is 1/3, 2/3, 3/3 full for instance.
• Females were underrepresented with design choices.

Game Concepts:

• Proximity sensors that change light colors are used in the Innocademy game concepts. Could this technology also be used to indicate shared interests and other kinds of relationships?
• The Innocademy student's spy tag concept - could use augmented reality... camera on goggles that maps the environment in real time... and turns it into a spy environment.
• Idea: bomb tag... timed tag game... tag someone before the bomb goes off... use a very visible colored light to show alive, dead and how much time.
• Site impaired persons can't utilize color indicators. Additional indications such as blinking should be designed in.

COST

Who pays for the technology? What about maintenance cost such as bug fixes, software updates? Is it affordable?

• Design feature that addresses this potential issue: Since the features on the watch are very limited, they should be far less expensive than an Apple or Android watch. The glasses would be an option and aid could possibly be provided for low income students. The school would own the technology and provide it for student use, using the same model currently used for laptops. The technology can be passed onto a next student once a current student has moved on.

STUDENTS

If a student steals another's watch or is abusing the technolgy…. The teachers and administrators could have a kill switch that can be activated remotely for each device.

Tracking is fine on school grounds. They already feel tracked at school because of all the analog systems being utilized to know where all the students are at any given time. They did not want to be tracked at home. They desired a separation from home and school that they could not really articulate.

It may be distracting. Maybe features can be turned on and off remotely by teachers.

The students decided to design accessible features into their games for people with disabilities. They did this with very little prompting and fully embraced the concept of universal design.