Task Alarm – An Application for Location-based Reminders

Reminders in smart phones are all based on electronic date and time i.e. they remind the user about the task which he had earlier saved for a specific date and time when the time arrives on that particular day [1][3][4]. Sometimes tasks need to be reminded about only when the person is at a specific location. This would be difficult to implement using the time-based reminders present in smart phones as we cannot accurately predict the exact time when a user will be at that specific location. Students and employees may also need to perform certain tasks when they reach a specific location like switching the device to silent mode when they reach college or office. The main objective is to develop a GPS based application to handle the following requirements: To alert the users through an alarm. The person should not only get reminded (notification) but also the application should perform some tasks on behalf of the person when he/she arrives or is near to that location. To solve all of...

2011

The sense of technology and its future development has been primarily led by the idea of finding ways in which to make life for people easier. Simplicity, practicality and functionality represent characteristics of good products. Mobile information and communication technology determines the society and behaviours since it represents an element of individual quality and a way of communicating and doing business. The potential provided by hardware can be fully used only by adapting to the users' requirements by improving the software side. Today's development of the information and communication technology has to be created with the focus on the humans and with technology transparent for the user. Regarding the mobile information and communication technology, the problem has traditionally been that the mobile applications focused too much on the technology, which means that applications had been developed for certain purposes or for special technologies. The new standpoint has been led by the idea that the application has to provide the users with what they want, anywhere they want it and in the best possible way. The user has to be able to employ the mobile device and software based on the installed applications in different environments and independent of the environment. Developing an application that may make everyday life easier is a sufficient motive to turn an idea into reality. The topical feature of the application development technology for mobile devices called for an idea that would take into consideration the users' requirements and satisfy them by providing a simple solution for their everyday life. This idea is a reminder based on the user's location.

International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology, 2018

Mobile is changing the way we relate to the world. Determining user's location through GPS is a very common feature in today's day to day life. Using this feature effectively can help us to build a number of smart android applications, thus helping mankind. Existing reminder application in android are time-based i.e. they remind you about the task on pre-settled time. Many time it may happen that when the alarm reminds you then you are not at that location to complete the task. Hence, in this research paper, we will try to develop a real-time location alarm system which will remind the user about the task not only at the right time but also at the right location. The main objective is to build a location-based Android reminder which will enable the user to-do following tasks-:1)to create a reminder and to set the target location 2)to alert the user through an alarm when user's current location matches to the predefined target location.3)to allow the user to edit and delete the reminders.4)to set user's choice alarm tone and ringer mode.5)to automatically set the profile mode based on user predefined location .This android application is designed using technologies such as GPS and SQLite.

International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology, 2019

We all being human usually forget some things which we have to get from other. In such a case, this application will be useful to remember the things. Location-based alarm using GPS is an attempt to add an alarm facility for mobiles, based on the location of the device and to set a to-do list that is the task to be performed. The location-based alarm will give you an alert and a notification when you reach your desired destination. Moreover, we are up with a dynamic approach of remote handling for reminder system. We have put forth an idea where in user can connect and handle each other's reminder system. Hence when you forget of setting reminder itself, your connected friend may set it for you.

— People use reminders to recall tasks to-do. But sophisticated enough tools are unavailable. Context-Awareness in mobile computing is more engaging area in gathering information about the user's current situation and would be ideal to integrate with the reminders to generate context-aware reminder where rich context is used to identify when a reminder should be presented to its recipient. Here we have proposed a model to integrate context-awareness with reminder's decision making process and develop a Context-Aware reminder. In this research more focus has put on capturing user context using technologies like IoT. Context is captured under five categories; Location, User Activity, User Preference, Identity of the User and Date and Time. Also developed a context representing model and processing context data to infer valuable information in a mobile environment. Then a conceptual framework for a context-aware reminder has presented and finally " RemindMe " , an android app has developed as the proof of concept.

2015

Only time and date based reminder application are available in the market for mobile phones. A manual entry has to be made by the user for setting up a reminder. A text popup and sound frequency alarm will be generated when the device time and date match with the date and date set by the user for any reminder. Sometimes the user is aware about the location where he wants the reminder rather than the time and date. But while setting up many reminders the user will not be aware about the time and date, but he will be aware about the location where he wants the reminder. Some reminders are location personified rather than a particular date or time. In this project we have designed an application which will enable the user to set location based reminder with the ease of voice commands.

ABSTRACT The sense of technology and its future development has been primarily led by the idea of finding ways in which to make life for people easier. Simplicity, practicality and functionality represent characteristics of good products. Mobile information and communication technology determines the society and behaviours since it represents an element of individual quality and a way of communicating and doing business.

International Journal of Computing, Communication and Instrumentation Engineering

Busy schedules in life lead people to set reminders to recall tasks to-do. But no sophisticated enough tools are provided to support users for handling reminders. Current reminder tools are triggered considering only the time factor. The main reason is the lack of using rich context that specify when a reminder should be presented to its recipient. Since Context-Awareness in mobile computing is more engaging area in gathering information about the user's current situation it would be ideal to integrate context awareness with the reminders to generate context-aware reminder where rich context is used that specifies when a reminder should be presented to its recipient. The aim of this research is to propose a model to integrate context-awareness to reminder decision making process and develop a Context-Aware reminder. In this research more focus has put on capturing user context using technologies like IoT. Context is captured under five categories; Location, User Activity, User Preference, Identity of the user and Date and Time. Developing a context representing model and processing context data to infer valuable information in a mobile environment. Then a conceptual framework for a context-aware reminder has presented and finally "RemindMe", an android app has developed as the proof of concept. As the conclusion it can be stated that if more rich context can be captured, by integrating rich context for decision making more sophisticated context reminders can be generated, which makes the reminder process much more sophisticated.

UiTM Cawangan Perlis, 2020

The Academic Reminder System is built to help users, which focuses for the students in UiTM Tapah to manage their scheduled class and assignment deadline via their mobile smartphones. The application was built for android-based platform. The user only needs to update their schedule after getting logged into the system and list any important date for their assignment deadline to the system. Then, the system will give an alert to remind the user for the upcoming class and task deadline. The System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) which is the waterfall model has been chosen as the methodology for this project that containing five phases. The result of the discussion shows that Academic Reminder System receives positive feedback through usability testing that has been completed. A total 30 students completed the usability survey and 46.7% of respondent are strongly agreed that this application meets their satisfaction with interface, usability, and performance. Future work recommendation for this project is to make a sharing application tool in the system so that the user can simply share the application to their friends. Besides that, the application can engage with new technology, which is using near-field communication (NFC) in the log in page to easier for students log into the system.

Intelligent Robotics and Applications

This paper proposes a location monitoring application for elderly care reminding them to do things they do not wish to forget related to their locations. The paper also introduces the importance of the user interface and emphasizes the difficulties in the interface design for various generations. In the first section, this paper shows the importance of smartphone application design for elderly care, and presents the various types of disease where the proposed application can be used. The second section introduces the difference between regular application design and application design for elderly people in smartphone applications. In the following sections, we are going to propose the application in detail, representing a suitable interface design for the elderly users. The introduced application can be applied into robot partners, to extend the ability of caregiving The experiment part discusses the result of program and we will discuss the outcome of interface research among elderly users, using the above introduced interface units and the functions of the application.