NASA’s guidelines also stipulate that designers should use Samsung’s Gear 2 smartwatch as a hardware reference for their creations.
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In return for your efforts Nasa is offering up $1 500 (R19 180) and the prestige of knowing your design is being used in space everyday.
“We are interested in the emerging world of smartwatch technology and are looking to leverage this technology to create a smartwatch app that could be helpful to astronauts”, NASA’s contest description reads. On the site’s description of the contest, NTL said that participants are asked to build a general user interface for apps that can be installed on a smart wearable to be used by the global Space Station’s (ISS) crew members in their missions.
The competition is set to run for four weeks.
The participating freelancers will have to submit the wireframes in PNG or JPEG format that highlight app’s navigation, overall layout, look and feel and other relevant design elements. Astronauts can use the radio to strike up an idle chat at will, usually during their break hours. The app will also display caution and warnings in special color codes.
Communication Status application: Will display whether or not the vehicle is now able to communicate with the ground through either voice or video. The goal for the app is efficiency – NASA wants a single app with these features, not multiple apps, and it wants the app to “direct attention to the appropriate information for a task”. And they’re pretty bad. Nasa needs help, it is clear.
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A bunch of the projects are for tools to be used by the first humanoid robot in space, Robonaut 2. At the time, Freelancer.com CEO Matt Barrie said the move “clearly shows that crowdsourcing solutions has become an essential part of creativity and innovation and that there is a strong demand to develop ingenious and world-leading solutions online”.
