Drive Focus

A video-based learning app for drivers

Drive Focus helps drivers to enhance or restore their driving skills.

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Industry:

Mobile Apps

Type:

Driving training app

Time:

6 months

Platform:

Android

For people with medical issues

The app assists people with brain injuries in driving rehabilitation

Adjusting to civilian life

It helps war veterans to adjust to “normal” driving moder

Good for newbies

Drive Focus enables novice drivers to learn critical road items

Skill development

Improves visual search skills and makes reaction faster.

About

Project Idea

The idea to create the Drive Focus app has appeared after the meetings with US veterans. When veterans return after duty tours in dangerous places, many face difficulties adjusting to the “normal” driving mode.

The Сlient Had

  • A business model
  • Initial design
  • A desired list of features
  • Approximate deadlines

We did

  • The apps’ architecture
  • Design for Android
  • Data structure
  • Display of video features

Team

UX/UI designer

Project manager

Android engineer

Front-end engineer

Back-end engineer

Wireframes

The app is simple and intuitive. It facilitates users’ interaction with the app, regardless of the device that is used.

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Product Description

  • Interactive videos of actual drives (1.5-3 minutes) filmed in North America and other world regions are arranged into “Tours”.

  • Users have to recognize and respond to critical items, like traffic lights or pedestrians, by tapping on them in the correct priority order.

  • Users’ score depends on multiple factors, including driving speed, reaction time, and the amount of indicated critical items.

  • Users can list the emails of people they would like to share their results with or share their results via messengers.

Target Audience

The app has been designed for driving schools, hospitals, and rehabilitation centers that focus on improving the driving reaction of students or patients. The app will suit both novice and experienced drivers suffering from medical conditions or life experiences that have impaired their driving skills.

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Technology Stack

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Development Challenges

How our team coped with a range of development challenges

UX/UI design

We paid special attention to creating an adaptive and understandable interface for people with impaired vision so that the interface won’t deteriorate if a user increases the text’s font.

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Data structure

We selected the “Interval Tree” data structure to arrange huge amounts of multiple data about each critical item simultaneously appearing at a particular second during the drive.

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Critical items

Users have to recognize and respond to various critical items, such as traffic lights or pedestrians by tapping on them in the correct priority order.

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Video display

Critical items displayed at the same time have to be synchronized together with the displaying video as well as with the user’s tapping frame. To resolve this challenge, we used linear interpolation.

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Results

A ready tablet app for Android. For further use by driving schools, hospitals, and rehabs. The app’s statistics will be used by US universities and research centers