Nootro Smart Ring

Project Description

Nootro is smart ring concept & mobile app, it helps remote workers manage stress levels. Fully conceptual product based on real technologies. We engaged in speculative fiction to envision a better working space even for remote workers. We mapped out our existing assumptions based around burnout and ways to solve it.

Problem

We discovered knowledge based workers are facing large amounts of mental strain that can potentially lead to employee burnout. Our project brief was to re envision the collaboration process in the digital age. As a team we looked at the challenges knowledge workers faced when engaging work in a fully remote environment. We based this project on our own experiences

Insights

We observed our on behaviors related to burnout as students over the course of one week . Each of us compiled a burnout journal that we shared with each other. At the end of the week the team documented their findings and mapped out solution ideas.

Solutions

We explored different wearable technology and learned about the physical constraints.‍ We had to pivot our idea from an earpiece monitor and opted for designing a smart ring that would have a fidget spinners component. With this in mind we began to create crude physical prototypes to realize the ring in our physical spaces. The end result was the Nootro concept that provides users a joint experience, the physical ring, and a companion mobile app generates insights for stress management.