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The Me Assistant
A Procrastinators lead to change
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The Problem and its
Scope

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 The Problem and its Scope

▧Introduction
▧Objectives of the Study
▧Scope and Limits
▧Significance of the Study

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1. Introduction

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Procrastination is rampant in the world
yet to most people, it is invisible and suffered
quietly specially by the people who are in a
very dark place because of it.

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“Put your work off till tomorrow and the day
after”
This is a line from a poem by the Greek Poet Hesiod around 800
B.C. It directly reflects the fact that procrastination has been with
us long before the internet has come to its existence.

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80-95%
College Students engage in
procrastination

75%
Consider themselves as chronic
procrastinator

general population of US are

20% chronic procrastinator

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 “The Indolence of the Filipino”
An Essay by Rizal

Here in the Philippines, it’s not hard to imagine the abundance of

procrastinators considering that we have high population, high
unemployment rate, culture, and history.

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It is a growing problem and will only continue to grow in
these strange times we call
“new normal”.

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Fight against procrastination

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 Distractions can
come from a variety of
sources for people
attempting to work. For
someone working on his
or her computer, the
Internet and other
applications are
likely candidates.

-Ozer et al

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 “
“The idea is procrastination often stems having bad systems in place.
Once you take care of creating systems combat different forms of
procrastination it becomes highly unlikely to put things off.”

-Scott

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2. Objectives
of the study

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 Objectives

This study aims to design an application or software

and a device that assists the users and reminds them
about their tasks
for them to be able to handle their
procrastination.

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 Objectives
▧ To make a software/application that:
○ Reminds the users to do things that can be
perceived as “productive activities” such as
exercising, studying, writing music, etc, by:
■ Providing in-app tips to the user.
■ Notifying the user from time to time via
system notifications.

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 Objectives

○ Reminds the user to avoid doing things that are

feeding their thoughts to procrastinate such as
social media, video games, etc. for a period of
time to give room in for the users schedule to do
more productive things through in-app tips.

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 Objectives

○ Assists the user in their fight against

procrastination by preventing them to access
apps or use items that might prevent them in
accomplishing their tasks.
■ Allows the user to block their access on
specific apps within their android device.

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 Objectives

▧ To make a container that is capable of the following:

○ Storing items that the user deemed as distractions for their
tasks.
○ Locking the items within to prevent the user from
accessing it during times where a task, is ongoing or must
be accomplished.
○ Connecting to the ThMAs android app via Bluetooth.

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 Objectives

▧ To make a system that is:

○ Attractive
○ Easy to use
○ Easy to modify in terms of user experience

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 Objectives

▧ To make the development open-ended for more

features and experimental ideas.
▧ To evaluate the system according to:
○ Functionality
○ Usability

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3. Scope and Limits

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 Scope and Limits

The designed app is aimed for procrastinators. Its main

feature is to provide the users with restrictions that will
encourage them to do the task at hand which they
themselves had set. As for the ongoing research and
with the time provided the app will only be developed
on Android handheld phones.

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 Scope and Limits
Furthermore, the type of procrastination the app aims
to counter are the ones that would only occur during
the creation of a project or a task. The app will heavily
rely on the user’s settings and the honesty of the user in
making his/her own task. The app will only be able to
manage a single user per device. It will use the device
storage as its own data storage.

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4. Significance
of the study

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 Significance
Students. This study will help the student to avoid procrastination by
using an application that will help them in time management in their
daily life and planning their strategic study. It is like a to-do list but
instead of only writing their task, it has a feature of locking applications
and would need for them to make extra effort to open the apps which will
have them less desire in opening this app and will then lead them to do
the task which is more important. This will also lead them to realize that
procrastination has a bad effect not only on health but also in their daily
tasks.

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 Significance
Procrastinator. This study will help them know the reasons
why they procrastinate and how to beat being a procrastinator.
This app will also serve as their daily planner by writing their
plans, also help them how to avoid procrastination and become
active in their daily life. If they are having a hard time to let go of
using those distraction app, this application can help by
convincing to do task which they needed to do more.

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 Significance
Future Researchers. The results of the study will give
information’s to the future researchers of the possible reason on
why people procrastinate. It will also help them to determine
different solutions and come up with their own solutions to lessen
procrastination. The ideas presented in this study can also be used
as references for their future research study which is related in
procrastination.

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 II.
Tools and Methods

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 Tools and Methods

▧Methodology
▧Procedures
▧ThMAs app and Box
▧The Box
▧ThMAs
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I. Methodology

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 Methodology

Having the
Design and Development Research Methodology Type 1
(DDR)
as a guide, the researchers may employ the following phases for the
study.

Analysis Design Development Try-out Evaluation

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 Methodology

Agile
Management
Methodology

SCRUMBAND
(Scrum + Kamban)

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2. Procedures

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 Procedures
Having the Scrumban Development as an approach the the development was
divided in three phases.

Preparation Prototyping and Final Testing

Before anything can be Iteration The purpose of this phase
done preparations are Most of the development is mainly to ensure the
needed first. Research will be consumed by this quality of the output.
and planning of the phase. Development of Tests will be done to see
design will be executed those prototypes will be if the design’s objectives
divided into sprints. . had been achieved.

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 3.
ThM
As
App
&
The Box

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ThMAs app and the Box

Apart from the ThMas app,

there also is the ThMas
Automated Box which utilizes
Bluetooth connection for the
box to communicate with the
app and vice versa.

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4. The Box

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The Box

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The Box
The Bluetooth takes the input
from the software via
Bluetooth which then be
interpreted and implemented
by the Arduino UNO and the
servo motor will reflect the
input that is being interpreted.

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5. ThMAs

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ThMAs

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ThMAs

Android Studio
Built under the JetBrains’
IntelliJ IDEA specifically for
the development of
applications for the Google’s
Android Operating System.

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ThMAs

For data handling SQLite

is used due to it being able to
be embedded to the program
itself.

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 III.
Design Profile

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 Design Profile

▧Perspective
▧POP
▧Business Model Canvas
▧Timeline
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I. Perspective

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Perspective

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 Perspective

Front Top
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 Perspective

Left Right
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2. POP

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 Business Model
3. Canvas

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4. Timeline

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