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Register Marking on your Wrist with Wearable Tech

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Marking registers on the PebbleWearable technology is certain to be a huge growth market in the coming years with Google officially stepping up to the plate with its Android Wear operating system coupled with some very appealing looking watches from Motorola along with ever increasing rumours of an Apple iWatch. But can these devices prove useful to complete simple tasks like marking a registers?

Background

The Android Wear and Apple iWatch are not yet available to buy but there are numerous other smart watches available with the current market leader Samsung with its various Gear watches and also the very popular Pebble created following its record breaking Kickstarter funding.

Almost all of the smart watches use your phone to connect out to the internet and the stand out feature of the Pebble is that it is compatible with both iPhone and Android devices (Samsung Gear watches are only compatible with the latest Samsung phones). Because of this the Pebble was the device of choice for this POC (proof of concept).

Pebble Register Marking

Along with a huge array of watch faces to choose from you can also install apps on your Pebble.  These apps can talk out to web service in the same way as phone apps both pulling data down to the phone and pushing actions back out again.

The register marking POC provides a simple list of the register’s learners along with a string of previous marks. Pressing the select button cycles through the available attendance types and once finished the results can be submitted back to the database using the web services already available in Tribal’s education software.

Anything beyond simple marking (like adding learners or comments) is probably best left to interfaces on the phone as any kind of text input on the watch, although possible, would be something you’d only attempt the once.

Conclusion

Apps to allow users to complete simple tasks are entirely possible on smart watches but given the form factor of the devices and the resulting complexities involved dealing with even simple exceptions might well limit their usefulness. Having lived with a Pebble on my wrist for the last month I can safely say they have many, very good uses (especially around notifications) and it will be very interesting to see how these technologies develop.


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