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My Galactic Journey
Solution summary
How might we help working students to find a balance between work, studying and free time, considering that they might lose the bigger picture of their priorities in their life project, feeling overwhelmed and lost?
Solution details
Let’s explore our galaxy!
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User and Stakeholder Benefits:
- find a balance between the different duties and priorities of your life within a friendly, flourishing digital environment
- Keep an eye on the bigger picture of your life goals and keep track of your satisfaction levels.
- Feel in control of your « spaceship » and avoid burnout
Team Members
- Giulia Allotta – Antropology
- Margerita Antoni – Foreign languages and literatures
- Antonio Arcudi – Business Administration
- Giorgia Degli Esposti Venturi – Law, Economics and Governance
My Galactic Journey
Resources
If you want to explore our galaxy more and have a dynamic first view of the app, here's the link!
Context
How might we help working students in finding a balance between work, study and free time, considering that they might lose the bigger picture of their priorities in their life project, feeling overwhelmed and lost?
Who Benefits?
Anyone can use our app! Anyway our target audience is working students.
User benefits:
- balance between the different duties and priorities of your life within a friendly, comforting digital environment
- see the bigger picture of your life journey with clarity
- feel in control of your « spaceship » and avoid burnout
- give the right importance to the activities and goals that truly matter to you
- motivate through gamification and the use of badges
Stakeholder and their benefits:
- Workplaces → boost their workers’ productivity, due to renewed motivation and higher morale
- Universities → students’ academic results and retention rates
- Mental health professionals and life coaches→in connecting with their target audience
Impact
The impact that our app wants to have on its user is to regain a healthy work-life balance, especially for working students, through a feeling of stress relieve. It is measured by the personal satisfaction of the user by the use of an evaluation scale and badges, that symbolize soft skills acquired by the completion of a task. See our PDF presentation for more detailed information!
Team work
Our team, named Space Travellers, is formed of four italian students of University of Bologna!
Giulia Allotta → I am now pursuing an Anthropology degree. I'm particularly interested in humanity's evolution and social problems. My role in the team is regularly contributing fresh perspectives and ideas based on my knowledge!
Margherita Antoni → I’m studying German and Russian literature. Naturally, I have a passion for reading! For this project, I wanted to provide my own perspective as a working student while also fostering a close-knit team environment!
Antonio Arcudi → I am currently enrolled in a bachelor's degree in Management and Marketing. I consider myself the group's pragmatic thinker: always prepared to design a backup plan!
Giorgia Degli Esposti Venturi → I am a student in Law, Economics and Governance. During our team meetings, it is my responsibility to manage time and progresses.
Innovativeness
We found that visualizer/planning platforms on the market often overwhelm their users with too much information, disorienting them with loads of data and making them feel behind schedule, or worse, judged by their own previous expectations.
In our vision, life-planning apps should help working students mantain balance between duties and priorities, providing them with a dynamic and customizable overview of their life journey that makes them feel in control of their own « spaceship » .
Transferability
The University of Bologna, as any other school or workplace interested in the the project, can present to its working students My Galactic Journey as an additional tool to improve their overall well-being. The app would like to activate a parternship with psychological platforms and mobile bank apps. A partnership with a pre-existing journaling app can also be possible; otherwise the use of AI will be implemented. See our PDF presentation for more detailed information!
Sustainability
The project aims to develop an application which is compatible with Android and IOS devices, allowing users to connect to My Galactic Journey from everywhere at any time, with an appealing and user-friendly interface design with a strong focus on gamification. Distribution on Playstore and AppleStore will be implemented.
Resources required in the short/mid - term:
- Economical resources and know-how for app development
- Partnership with a psychological platform
- Possible partnership with mobile banking apps.
- Possible partnership with a pre-existing journaling app
- University resources to be destined to provide My Galactic Journey for free to students and working-students
Main challenges in the long term:
Privacy
- Personal data collected by the app (Journaling, financial management...)
- Interoperability with University student record and data sharing policies
- Psychological support privacy policies
Benefits of our digital Badges:
- Grab users' attention and encourage exploration through the app
- Unlock new personalization features (background textures, planet icons, astronaut’s skins)
Possibility in the future of adding new planets (for example “friendship”, “sport and fitness”...)