A visual calendar for kids for the Bing Fund Hackathon for Autism [http://www.bingfund.com/autism][]
- You want to help introduce your child to a calendar and help them stay on task
- But you don't want to have to use a new tool to manage your child's calendar
- Use existing calendars with their ** Rich scheduling tools ** Deep integration on mobile phones like the iPhone ** Rich desktop calendar apps like iCal, Exchange ** Great features like repeating events ** Tools familiar to parents so they don't have to learn a new calendar app
- Build an app that shows the calendar visually
- Create a separate calendar for your child using your favorite service/app like Exchange/Google Calendar or iCloud.
- Make sure the calendar is accessible on the phone by adding it in the Settings app under 'Mail, Contacts, Calendars'
- Launch the app, allow access to your calendars and the app will prompt you to choose your child's calendar
- The app looks at the title of each event and if it finds keywords like breakfast, bus, lunch and recess, it converts the event to a card with an image.
- The app only shows 3 events at a time. The current event is front and center while the previous and next event are smaller.
- The end result is that the child gets to quickly see what they just did what they're doing now and what's coming up next.
