The document discusses an app called Bed Bytes that is designed to help teenagers get more sleep by setting a recommended bedtime and disabling other apps on their phone during sleep hours. It provides evidence that many teenagers do not get enough sleep and feel tired, affecting their school performance and productivity. The app would calculate an individual's bedtime based on their age and wake up time. This would help motivate teenagers to go to sleep earlier by preventing phone use late at night. The app design includes features for inputting schedule details, viewing recommended bedtimes and sleep stats, and allowing parental control through a lock on a paired phone.

1. Bed Bytes
By
Madeleine Hesketh, Laura Holland, Emily Munro
and Catalina Runcie

2. Our app Bed Bytes is a mobile app designed for teenagers to
help them set a time to go to bed; to prevent teenagers
playing on their phones when they are meant to be asleep
and enabling them to learn as effectively as possible the next
day.

3. Poor sleep affects every aspect of our lives, it makes us tired
which results in a lack of concentration at school.
Consequently, according to the national sleep statistics, they
are 3 times more likely to struggle to concentrate, and are
twice as likely to be less productive. This particularly affects
teenage girls who as women find it more difficult to sleep.

4. Do you think you get
enough sleep?

5. Our app is solving a genuine problem as when interviewed
89% of 13 years old felt they didn’t get enough sleep and
100% felt they were tired at school. This shows that our app
will help people as it will tell them when they need to go to
bed, as 94% they would go to bed earlier if they had
something to motivate them
As for the apps being disabled, 94% of 13 years admitted on
going on their phone after lights out.

6. Our team, Bed Bytes, is developing an awesome app, to help
teenagers get the correct hours they need of sleep by telling
then when to be in bed based on their age and time they need
to wake up. So they can wake up refreshed and ready for a
day full of concentrating and work at school, as a result the
teenagers are able to reach their maximum potential at
school. We are able to do this by adding a feature on the app
that disables all other apps.

7. Emily is a 15 year old girl who is addicted to her phone; she says that she is constantly logged onto
Facebook, and is always checking for updates. Emily admits that she goes to bed between twelve and one
on most school nights, but stays up much later to scroll through her Twitter, Instagram, Vine and various
other social networking feeds whilst she is in bed. Emily has to get up at 6:30 every morning to get into
school and says she feels that constantly tired and wishes she had something to motivate her to go to
sleep earlier.
She feels our app would be extremely beneficial, as the pre-calculated sleeping time would motivate her
towards having an earlier bed time. She also loves the idea of Bed Bytes disabling the other apps on her
phone, as it would prevent her staying up later than she already is - “I love the idea of the app and it will
probably help me to get my sleeping habits back on track, so I’m not always tired, which would let me
concentrate better in school.” Consequently, Emily said she will most definitely download the app when it
becomes available.
Geography teacher Dr Davies is a frequent cyclist, who has to get up early to get ahead of the morning
rush-hour traffic to ensure a peaceful ride to work. He struggles to get to bed early, as he spends a lot of
time browsing on hits tablet at night, and so often ends up only heading off to bed after midnight, then
waking before six in the morning - He says that he feels constantly exhausted.
Dr Davies said that if he had this app on his tablet it would be extremely helpful, as he would be unable to
browse and so would go to sleep earlier for a longer night’s sleep. He said “ It would help me it be more
awake” and therefore more alert at work.

8. There are other apps that set alarms for the time you need
to get bed, however there are no apps as sophisticated in
disabling background apps when you are meant to be
sleeping. No other app provides the same level of parental
control over children’s actual sleeping . Traditionally
parents control their children’s bedtimes, in the modern
world this is the next natural step.

9. Emily is a 15 year old girl who is addicted to her phone, at any chance she will log
onto her Facebook account to check her friends latest post. Emily admits to going
to bed between half ten to eleven on a nightly basis. However she confesses to
scrolling through her Twitter, Instagram, Vine and various other social network
news feeds, whilst she is in bed. Emily has to get up at 6:30 every morning to get
into school. She says she feels that she is constantly tired and wishes she had
something to motivate her to get to bed earlier.
She feels our app would benefit her greatly as with the alarm system it would
motivate her to go to bed earlier. She also loves the idea of disabling the other
apps on her phone as it would prevent staying up later than she already is. She
said “I love the concept of the app and it will help me get my sleeping habits back
on track so I’m not always tired, which as a result would mean I could concentrate
better at school and mean my test results will improve. “ Consequently Emily said
she will be most definitely download the app when it comes available.

10. Welcome Page
(with logo and
title)
Details Page
(user inputs
how old/wake
up time)
Bedtime Page
(shows the
advised time to
go to sleep)
Settings Page
(change wake up
time/cancel
alarm/override app
disabling)
Sleep Stats (shows
the user the required
hours of sleep for
different age groups)
Feedback – Good options,
easy to navigate around
the app, simple finger
movements
(tapping/swiping) make
app more user friendly.

11. This is our
cover page for
the app whilst
the data loads.

12. This key wireframe is
second stage of data
input. In this section of
the app you would put
in the time you need to
get up at and on what
specific days.

13. This key wireframe
tells you when you
need to go to bed. It
will set an alarm on the
phones alarm system
to tell you when to be
in bed. It also then will
disable all apps on the
phone between this
time and the time you
need to get up at.

14. The ability to disable all the apps on one’s phone, according
to our expert session, is technically feasible. Also it is
possible to control the app from another phone.
Furthermore it is technically feasible to link the alarm
system on the app into the phone’s existing alarm
programme.

15. We decided to design two models for our business case.
There would be a free version with advertisements for
University Students and teenagers as they are less likely to
want to pay for the app. We also have decided to design a
paid version with no advertisements for the parents to buy
for their children. As adults are more likely to pay for an app
than children, on the paid version there is also a parental lock
which is controlled by one phone, so that they can control
the settings on another, paired phone.

16. We would get the app the coverage it needs to get it noticed
by using word of mouth among friends and teachers. We
would also advertise it in Physical Social Education by going
around and speaking to classes. We would explain the
importance of sleep and why our app would allow them to get
the vital hours they need at sleep so they can fully focus us
at school. The school would also send out a letter explaining
to parents the benefits of our app and how it assist their
children on reaching their maximum at school

17. App Design Mock-up
On the paid version of our app there is an option for a
parental lock which is controlled by the parents and leaves
them in control of the app. It allows the parents to a set a time
at which the apps on their children's phone are disabled and
can no longer be used. This prevents them from using their
phone after a certain time. The parental lock is controlled
from another phone which also has the app downloaded onto
it. It is controlled by a password. The lock is switched off
automatically in the morning when the child’s alarm goes off.