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TaskTango System Design
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TaskTango UI Design
Inspiration
Someone had to do it! Tasks are a part of daily life; from taking out the trash at your apartment, to rinsing the beakers at your chemistry lab, to cleaning up dishes at home, the world works when people get their tasks done. Because of the variety of tasks, and the variety of users, it is often hard to regulate the assignment and completion of these tasks.
Who was on recycling duty?
Wasn't this Matt's week to prepare the lab kits?
TaskTango seeks to make assignment, completion, and or verification of tasks like these as simple as possible--saving work for households, lab managers, friends, and event planners alike. All you have to do is tap your phone against our TaskTango Tags or Stickers©, complete your task, and tango. It's that easy.
What it does
TaskTango is built on groups, collections of people--whether it be a family, a group of friends, or lab staff-- who have various tasks. TaskTango will help delegate the tasks to members of the group, so everyone puts in equal shares of work, and, most importantly, the work gets done. TaskTango accomplishes this through the use of near field communication (NFC) and radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) technology, making task tracking seamless and easy to get started. To get started, you simply have to hold your phone near one of our NFC/RFIC tags or stickers. Then, you'll be prompted with a direct link to jump right into proprietary task management platform. Through TaskTango, you'll be provided management and reminding tools like group management, task distribution, and text+email notifications so that you and your group tango through any task or chore today and in the future.
How we built it
TaskTango was built centered around NFC and RFIC technology, hoping to bring cutting edge technology to the hands of individuals looking for to take control and organize their day-to-day tasks in a simple and innovative way. What begun our journey was the discovery of a couple NFC and RFIC chips and stickers left over from one of our labs.
Challenges we ran into
- Lack of easy access to soldering tools, slowed progress of hardware development
- Without an Apple Developer account, we were unable to integrate NFC reading capabilities into an iOS app
Accomplishments that we're proud of
- Functional frequency- and sensing-based notification modes
- Robust back-end
- Adaptable transition when doors were closed out of our control
What we learned
Our team learned a variety of skills throughout the event. We had the unique opportunity to develop across the stack of computing; from hardware programming and integration, to back-end hosting and servicing, to front-end design.
This was particularly exciting, as it gave our team the chance to branch out, and learn new disciplines of engineering and computer science. We all had the opportunity to learn and teach one-another, a vital element of any team.
Finally we had the privilege of meeting other wonderful hacking teams around us. We got to share knowledge, ideas, and stores that will persist far beyond the duration of the event.
What's next for TaskTango
The next steps for TaskTango are two-fold. First, we must flesh out our front-end service and provide even more tools and flexibility. While currently we provide the basics like task and group creation, we would love to provide even more advanced tools like task automation and detection, customization to triggers, and a more complete feature set. This will require both front-end design, and back-end support, meaning our development team will have plenty to learn. The second step would be to design and implement custom TaskTango Tags and Stickers. Currently we are using, and thus reprogramming, off-the-shelf, general purpose RFID and NFC tags. Having our own tags, with our own designs, graphics, and internal programming, would allow for more brand recognition, and feature support.
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