User:Smimperial/sandbox

Lock Away, Look Away
Lock Away, Look Away is an application that will prevent you from opening your social media sites during important occasions and events so that you can engage more to what really matters in your life. This app will be remembered as a social media timer that cures social media and smartphone addiction of the target market so that these people will patronize and appreciate face to face conversation with their loved ones, reading books and writing poems that will enhance their skills, and lastly engaging on different rigorous activities that will enhance one’s health. This app is developed by Joseph Anthony A. Abolayan, Sean Adrienne T. San Pedro, and Shaira M. Imperial.

Product Concept
This application the group is proposing, conceptualizes self-supporting behavioral conditioning that may help one's performance in the academe. It will also prevent, if not totally eradicate, the notion that smartphones can replace books, actual, social interaction, and, let's face it, it will also lessen procrastination. Thus, lessening the risks posed by these devices to one's health.

The intended audience of the product are Mapuan students. Nowadays, our smart phones have been labeled an essential, "millenials" tend to be more on their phones than hitting the books. This raises a risk of eye sight damage, and a variety of other risks to our health, and social construct. Students also use smartphones [sometimes] as an alternative and/or a means of making study time easier. But does that really help if there are risks involved?

The application will be of great help, conditioning one's self to not be easily distracted by the ever growing array of technology. The product aims to condition behavior classically through conditioning, eradicating total absolute dependence of students on their smartphones. Hence, reverting one's attention back into proper time for studying at home.

Functions
Lock Away, Look away is developing functions such as helping an individual finish his/her tasks by locking certain mobile applications. It is a reliable service that aims to manage one’s time properly. There are five physical characteristics of the said mobile application —


 * 1) 1.	Connectivity - Apps are always online as the device is constantly logged in to the mobile network. This allows user specific information or notifications being pushed to the App as they are available.
 * 2) 2.	Convenience - good content also counts to convenience. Analysing the users’ needs and creating a useful idea out of it is essential.
 * 3) 3.	Reachability - The core of mobile devices is to be used anywhere at anytime. The same is true for Apps where reachability has become availability. Not in sense of usage, but in sense of updated information and perpetual usefulness.
 * 4) 4.	Security - Data transferred over the network are password incorporated. All information are safe.
 * 5) 5.	Personalization - an app fitting one’s needs and an app behaving like you want it to do. This need covers not only personalized content but also control over data stored, shared or used for further actions.

Features & Characteristics
Here are pictures on how to use, install, some features and characteristics of the application.