Hiro

After presenting our research work we concluded we must be more specific with our solution. Our first target was to help students maintain attentiveness during class, but now we ask ourselves do students really want to be focused in class? and if they do, how much are they willing to sacrifice to achieve it

Experiencing with more mechanisms. We wanted to test how does it feel when the phone falls and bounces on different kinds of materials.

We met with Tal Makers who has an institute for teaching kids arduino and electricity. We discussed  possible implementations for out prototype. Below is one of the mechanisms we have tried - a servo motor that operates an arm, providing a linear movement.

25/2 A new question came up - why physical and not an app? We could make an app that tracks your phone usage and prevent the user from using it. We've checked existing apps in the market and all of them did not succeed. We believe that the main reason is that the target is to disconnect the user from the phone, which isn't possible with an app because IN the phone itself. We decided to physically detach the user from his phone.

Our tests have shown an increase of 50% in levels of attention with the object, compared to without the object. Those are great news, but another problem arose- the object's motion is annoying and doesn't make the users want to use it again. In the upcoming weeks we will research motion and figure out which motion suits us best.

During the last week we asked students weather they feel like they are attentive during lectures, and if they are satisfied with the current situation. Reviewing the results, most students indicated that they cannot maintain full attentiveness during class and would like to use a device that will help them. This is a strong conclusion for us since it validates our need.

In the past two weeks we reviewed all the in class distractions and decided to focus on the main attention monster - the smartphone. Our research has shown that students want to be able to put their phone aside so that they can focus on the lecture. It has been decided that the problem we are trying to solve the students smartphones that are trying to steal their attention constantly.