{"id":8476,"date":"2018-05-21T08:30:02","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T12:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=8476"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:55","slug":"ross-students-productivity-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/05\/21\/ross-students-productivity-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Ross students create productivity app"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12994\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<div id=\"attachment_8501\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8501\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8501\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Iris-App-Team-Photo-e1527173358745.jpg\" alt=\"&quot; &quot;\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8501\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Robert Pasick (l) with Ross students (l to r) Tristan Neeb, Aklavya Kashyap, Shayan Shafii, and Sean Dew. (Randy Maschaka\/Michigan Ross)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recent graduates\u00a0<strong>Shayan Shafii<\/strong>, <strong>Reid Ovis<\/strong>, <strong>Aklavya Kashyap<\/strong>, <strong>Tristan Neeb<\/strong>, and <strong>Sean Dew\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/poetsandquantsforundergrads.com\/2018\/05\/17\/michigan-ross-students-create-productivity-app\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">developed a productivity app<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that pairs with Amazon\u2019s Alexa\u00a0to help people set and achieve their goals.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These goals could be daily, weekly, or monthly in the context of physical, mental, or social capabilities. Named \u201cIris,\u201d the app aggregates statistical insights regarding productive activity versus counterproductive behaviors. The ultimate goal of the app is to help people become more self aware of their habits and change them to be more productive. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One targeted audience of this app is college students, who must learn to balance their academic, personal, and work lives. The group of developers is currently conversing with partners at the university with hopes of pairing the app with select courses and initiatives. The hope of these developers is that the app will encourage others to create a more productive future.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent graduates\u00a0Shayan Shafii, Reid Ovis, Aklavya Kashyap, Tristan Neeb, and Sean Dew\u00a0developed a productivity app that pairs with Amazon\u2019s Alexa\u00a0to help people set and achieve their goals.\u00a0These goals could be daily, weekly, or monthly in the context of physical, mental, or social capabilities. Named \u201cIris,\u201d the app aggregates statistical insights regarding productive activity versus counterproductive behaviors. The ultimate\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/05\/21\/ross-students-productivity-app\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":8501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"1527206400","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"https:\/\/poetsandquantsforundergrads.com\/2018\/05\/17\/michigan-ross-students-create-productivity-app\/","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"100","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[69,21,454,96],"class_list":["post-8476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-apps","tag-innovation","tag-ross","tag-students"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Iris-App-Team-Photo-e1527173358745.jpg",600,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Iris-App-Team-Photo-125x83.jpg",125,83,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Iris-App-Team-Photo-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Iris-App-Team-Photo-e1527173358745.jpg",600,400,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Iris-App-Team-Photo-e1527173358745.jpg",600,400,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Iris-App-Team-Photo-e1527173358745.jpg",600,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Iris-App-Team-Photo-e1527173358745.jpg",600,400,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Iris-App-Team-Photo-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Iris-App-Team-Photo-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Iris-App-Team-Photo-658x300.jpg",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Iris-App-Team-Photo-e1527173358745.jpg",600,400,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Iris-App-Team-Photo-e1527173358745.jpg",375,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Samantha DeRosia, ITS Communications","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/srderosi\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Recent graduates\u00a0Shayan Shafii, Reid Ovis, Aklavya Kashyap, Tristan Neeb, and Sean Dew\u00a0developed a productivity app that pairs with Amazon\u2019s Alexa\u00a0to help people set and achieve their goals.\u00a0These goals could be daily, weekly, or monthly in the context of physical, mental, or social capabilities. 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