ZipSwitch

ZipSwitch

Idea

The idea is to create a medium for digital contact exchange using wearable technology. When people meet and want to stay in touch and exchange their contacts, they currently go through a long winded process of creating a new contact on their phones. People should be able to securely and reliably exchange their contact information without much hassle from their electronic devices and that's what we've tried to solve.

Workflow

1. User notify the watch that they're about to meet a bunch of people.
2. User goes around meeting people and meets them by shaking their hands.
3. The Pebble vibrates every time it detects a handshake and notifies the phone.
4. The phone talks to a server using parse and detects other handshakes that were made and performs the contact exchange.
5. The user finally has a list of contacts that s/he's met.

Technologies Used

• Pebble C SDK
• Android
• Parse

Future Work

• Different Gestures to share different types of contacts
• Come up with other heuristics to make the handshake detection and discovery protocol more accurate
• Create an iOS app

Built With

• android
• parse
• pebble