Designed especially for family, close friends and significant other separated over geographical distance who want to be part of each other's lives. We bring loved ones closer in a game of sending token gifts and finding them using augmented reality navigation.

THE PROBLEM

Design a mobile app that supports the exchange of token gifts by close friends and family members who live away from each other. The opportunity is to reimagine a conventional social practice that works well in the physical, co-located world, and make it work digitally such that it spans time and place.

PROPOSED SOLUTION

Our app NaviGift is designed especially for close family and friends separated over geographical distance who want to physically be a part of each other’s lives through gift giving. Users can give token gifts to reconnect with loved ones for small occasions or just as a means to be a part of their lives and send some love. Users can either send a gift or look for one they’ve been sent.

Using mobile devices powerful sensors that can detect location, movement, acceleration, orientation, proximity, and environmental conditions we designed an augmented reality experience that allows the user to navigate their world in search for gift their loved ones have placed for them. The recipient of the gift engages in a game-like exploration of their surroundings to locate a gift a close friend or family sent their way. Events in the app are trigger by proximity to a gift and availability of the recipient. In other words, if the person is near the gift and has the time to play then they will receive the notification to start the search.

SOLUTION'S FEATURES

Allow the user to add friends via Facebook or Google+.
Augmented reality navigation through the user’s world.
Proximity and availability triggered notifications.
The app uses the information from the calendar to mark what times the users will be free.
Allow the user to set up their privacy preferences to decide what information is available public.
Let the sender choose a convenient gift from a wide variety of shops and stores.
Automatic Payment.
Allow the sender to either write or video record a congratulatory message for when the recipient reaches the gift.
Gifts are redeemable by digital gift-card, Android Pay, or Apple Pay.