Description
Learning while doing
PoGu - master your digital tools over night!
PoGu helps you to use your digital tools, apps and devices in no time and without weekend courses. Just ask what you need, and get personalized help. Try it out:
PoGu pitch at Harvard Business School
Live demo and introduction
This presentation was part of Harvards Field X Demo day, Nov. 2023
Here is how you master your digital tools with PoGu
Let PoGu show you what to do in seconds
I. Configure your apps
Choose from a list of available modules which tools you are using on your PC. This way PoGu answers your technical questions tailored to you and your applications - just like an expert looking over your shoulder.
II. Ask PoGu
Use the searchbar or microphone icon to ask PoGu about a specific functionality of your digital tools and get instant step-by-step answers.
III. Get visual answers
PoGu's unique explanation tiles give quickly applicable instructions with straightforward screenshots and short text-guides.
A smart Wiki mixed with cutting edge artifical intelligence
PoGu is designed to be your friend and help you like an expert in your pocket
Use your camera for personal guidance
Still unsure what to do? Choose your desired instruction, point your smartphone at your laptop screen and PoGu will tell you what to do and where to click.
Thanks to state-of-the-art image recognition, PoGu analyses your screen in real time and recognizes what you need to do. From there, the app guides you by instructions to the desired result.
And your privacy? Don't worry, all processing happens locally on your phone, your data is safe and will at no point be shared with anyone.
Why is the PoGu concept special?
A vision for a new learning culture
We concentrate on direct support of informal learning processes
In order to transform theoretical knowledge into practical skills, it is necessary to apply what was learned directly (Hense/Mandl 2011). Through PoGu's direct support of learning transfer, the learning success can be maximized. Therefore, PoGu's approach is based on providing knowledge quickly accessible and tailored in order to integrate informal learning seamlessly into your everyday work.
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Lifelong and lifewide learning
The significant part of our lives we learn in informal learning environments - yet traditional training programs focus on formal learning. (based on Hense/Mandl 2011)
Just Ask
Type your question or just ask PoGu
"PoGu, how do I share my screen in a videochat?"
P "We got this, look:"
PoGu Live Experience
Try PoGu's step-by-step explanation for yourself. And now imagine there is such an explanation for everything in your life.
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Who I am and what I do
Since my teenage years, I have been working on innovative projects to solve tangible problems in (my) life
So over the years I have acquired various programming languages, hardware skills and problem solving abilities, taken responsibility as a project leader for my teams, and gained versatile experience on stages when pitching my projects.
During my high school graduation with a major in business, I started my .smerds business to professionalize my work.
Since then I have brought a variety of projects to life and pushed technology-driven innovations as the project manager:
- uniQ.works - a web framework to add additional functionality to closed systems as a browser-plugin
- 𝗕𝗮𝗴𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸 - a smart bag which checks itself if it is completely packed and gives suggestion for optimized packing
- 4Point Insoles - a globally unique concept for online ordering of custom orthopedic insoles using scanning technology and a 3D printing approach
- 2Cups Solutions - optimized processes for a DAX company which now require less effort per year than drinking 2 cups of coffee
- 𝘀𝗽𝗔𝗥𝗸𝗹𝗲 - a smart parking management appliance with artificial intelligence which I eventually presented and published as a scientific paper at the WI-Conference 2021 in Germany.
Case study with teachers
This project was originally created to help teachers in the pandemic.
As the son of a teacher I first hand experienced much uncertainty and unsureness about the use of digital tools in classrooms and especially online classes. At all ends it was missing guidelines for sending privacy-compliant emails, organize lessons as a video chat, writing online exams, and many many more ...
Therefore, I designed a solution within the Design Thinking approach to relieve teachers of this uncertainty - and more importantly - to give them back the freedom to focus on their lessons. Instead of self-studying a multitude of tools and memorizing thousands of small features, PoGu brings back focus to teaching by supporting in the use of technical tools and devices.
For this first attempt, PoGu provides quick explanations to precise questions about the use of technical tools for online teaching. In a first case study, it was therefore primarily tested whether the explanation format is comprehensible and effective for the target group. Since becoming a teacher does not include any preparation for digital tools, most of them are very inexperienced in using them and are afraid of doing something wrong. Because PoGu is an approach to explain technology with technology, the biggest challenge is to reduce barriers and create an intuitive user experience. This is a repeating cycle that will accompany PoGu forever, to offer access to answers and new worlds to as many people as possible.
Therefore, PoGu was further developed in cooperation with a group of teachers to make the user interface as simple and accessible as possible. The final goal was and is to make quick and easy answers accessible fast. Users should tell PoGu what they want to do - and get personalized and understandable step-by-step instructions in seconds.
Over the long term, PoGu will be available and appear for many different use cases and life situations in a variety of guises, ranging from a quick reference book, to a voice assistant, to AR glasses. However, by focusing on a real problem from the beginning and targeting a non-digital audience, PoGu is always centered on applicable solutions to be used by everyone. This solution actively combats worry lines.
This project was originally created to help teachers in the pandemic.
As the son of a teacher I first hand experienced much uncertainty and unsureness about the use of digital tools in classrooms and especially online classes. At all ends it was missing guidelines for sending privacy-compliant emails, organize lessons as a video chat, writing online exams, and many many more ...
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Therefore, I designed a solution within the Design Thinking approach to relieve teachers of this uncertainty - and more importantly - to give them back the freedom to focus on their lessons. Instead of self-studying a multitude of tools and memorizing thousands of small features, PoGu brings back focus to teaching by supporting in the use of technical tools and devices.
For this first attempt, PoGu provides quick explanations to precise questions about the use of technical tools for online teaching. In a first case study, it was therefore primarily tested whether the explanation format is comprehensible and effective for the target group. Since becoming a teacher does not include any preparation for digital tools, most of them are very inexperienced in using them and are afraid of doing something wrong. Because PoGu is an approach to explain technology with technology, the biggest challenge is to reduce barriers and create an intuitive user experience. This is a repeating cycle that will accompany PoGu forever, to offer access to answers and new worlds to as many people as possible.
Therefore, PoGu was further developed in cooperation with a group of teachers to make the user interface as simple and accessible as possible. The final goal was and is to make quick and easy answers accessible fast. Users should tell PoGu what they want to do - and get personalized and understandable step-by-step instructions in seconds.
Over the long term, PoGu will be available and appear for many different use cases and life situations in a variety of guises, ranging from a quick reference book, to a voice assistant, to AR glasses. However, by focusing on a real problem from the beginning and targeting a non-digital audience, PoGu is always centered on applicable solutions to be used by everyone. This solution actively combats worry lines.
Always there when you need it
This App is designed to be used quicker than your weather app. Get your answers fast and understand them even faster.
All answers in one app.
PoGu will be your go-to for all questions regarding a speicific tool. From "how do I share my screen" to "how do I send an E-Mail"
Personalized answers
PoGu knows your Tools and Systems and customizes the answers so they fit your specific needs. Configure once, enjoy forever.
Concept modules
Everything in PoGu is organized in Modules. Every Tool is a module which contains all available features. PoGu searches this feature lists for your answer automatically.
Fast understanding
To give you precise and fast to apply answers, PoGu uses standerdized explanations. They are composed of a couple of tiles containing a image and one instructional sentence.
Results in realtime
Use PoGus searchbar or built in voice recognition to find a solution to your question in realtime.