Peep is a mobile app targeted towards college students to help them maximize their personal productivity by creating a minor incentive to eliminate distractions while studying or working on a project. Peep also allows students to connect with other students working on the same thing they are at any given time.
A student can download the app, create an account, and link their account to Facebook for sharing purposes. By enabling location services, geofencing technology will automatically assign that student to whatever college or university they are closest to. This can be manually edited in settings if they are automatically assigned to the wrong college or university.
From that point on, students will be able to see posts from every other student that is assigned to their common college or university.
Students will have the ability to create a customized study plan by selecting their desired study session time length and how frequently they want breaks during this time. They will be able to fill in the course and instructor that they are working on during their study session. Once they have created their study plan, they will be able to click ‘hide’ and go into their shell for a distraction-free study session. An automated post will appear on everyone’s newsfeed assigned to that college or university, showing everyone what that student is currently working on, and how long they will be away for.
The instructor and course name will be a “tag”, and other students that are working on the same thing will be ‘matched’ with that student. Once a student is matched with another student based on workload and location commonalities, that student will be able to message their matches to get help on study questions and possibly meet in the library, for example, to work together.
Once a study session has been started, Peep will detect whether or not it is the main browser on an individual’s device. This will enable Peep to calculate a Productivity Score for the user. The Productivity Score is a percentage representing the amount of time a student refrained from accessing other apps and distractions on their device during that student’s set study session. Every time a user peeps out of their shell before their break timer goes off, it will negatively affect the user’s Productivity Score. Likewise, every time a user makes it through their entire study interval without peeping out of their shell, it will positively affect the user’s Productivity Score.
