What do you have in your classroom or school that could become part of a game world easily?

Title: The Efficient Operator

Rationale: Distraction and tiredness can affect studying, reading for pleasure, playing games, driving, operating machinery

Concept: A mobile-based game that can be played to understand how distraction affects the user, and a separate fork that, when activated, asks for initial state: tired, active, energised on a likert scale then seeks input every half hour as to how the user is feeling.

Activation involves entering, say, subject or activity and topic being studied/nature of activity.

A report can be generated at any time to show topics take the most of the user’s attention, what times are best for a given subject or topic, how long the user is efficiently working and what phone distractions (notifications) are happening during the period

Possible data elements

Fork 1

• nature of task
• reaction time
• nature of distraction: music, notifications (you have new mail or message), likes

Fork 2

• Time of day (from device)
• Initial vibe of the user
• Subject or activity (user setup)
• Topic (user setup)
• Notifcations (from device)
• whether app is active or in the background (from device)
• reason for backgrounding—eg name of other app running in the foreground (from device)
• periodic user input as checklist. Say, tired, energetic, OK, confused, angry, bored. Checlist entities sourced from focus group