Procrastination. A problem for all. I've been focusing on creating a solution for college students. It's been 4 days since the launch on Monday. Premise: Telling pilot users to work as fast as they can on an assignment just given out that day, or on a future assignment; I will then check back in 5 minutes to see how much work you have done. I would really check back in 10-15 minutes. Read the rest at my co-blog ooby.posterous.com 3 Insights: Many users continued working past the 5 minute mark. Many got...
Anecdote from my last post: "Personal Informatics Expert focus: I want to design a feedback system that helps Elite college (i.e. Stanford & Columbia) students capture the allocation of their time so that they may increase productivity and decrease procrastination. " Redefined: Design a system that helps Computer Science [Stanford students] stop [procrastinating] when [studying] on the computer . keep track of their time spent studying, weight gain/loss, and money spent. This system will create more organization...
Overview Expert focuses: Decrease procrastination, increase productivity, tracking time allocation for stanford students. In the Cognitive approach, defined by reducing distractions, increasing the salience of foreground tasks, and augmenting working memory, I want to target reducing distrations (Moraveji 2011). In other words, my cognitive expert focus embraces the daily battle procrastination. Cognitive Expert Focus: I want to design a system to solve daily procrastination for Stanford students when...
There is no off button for stress: human life is a continuous fight or flight response starting from childhood or even preinfancy. Our bodies cannot distinguish between different types of stress, whether we're being chased by a lion or studying for a test. This is demonstrated by the fact that the same stress hormone (Glucocortoroids -- GCs) is released in all stressful events (chased by lion is the same as being stressed on the peforming stage). Unfortunately, stress has no simple solution; each person, each...
There are good stressors. There are bad stressors. Quoting Professor Sapolsky, "We love good stressors. We pay good money for them too." For example, roller coasters, bungee jumping, and skydiving are all examples of good stressors that we crave. Although these type of stressors are not enjoyed by everyone, bad stressors do not discriminate. In Professor Sapolsky's article, Why Stress is Bad for your Brain, he uses soldiers with Vietnam War soliders with PTSD as an example. He also stresses the term GCs or...
The process to develop an idea from conception to commercialization today starts on Facebook chatting with friends about a thought you had. If you got positive feedback from them, you’d post it on a blog or forum you frequent to get more input, though from people probably not in your target audience. If you kept up your momentum, you’d contact everyone you know to find someone to figure out the technicalities of your product. Hopefully you get lucky enough to know an engineer or two. Spend a few weeks figuring that...
There are just some web companies that you're so positive will stay for the long run (at least I am) - Paypal, eBay, Amazon, Facebook. I just got a call from Amazon about their app store launch (I'm a developer) and they just wanted to check in with me because I haven't uploaded my app yet. Talk about great service. Whether their motivation is sincere towards the developer or not, operations at Amazon is clearly tight.
(http://o5.com/) Promises are awesome--if they're not broken; but, doesn't it suck when someone breaks a promise that they made to you? Isn't it disappointing? Despite their excuses, legit or not...
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