Revolutionizing the alarm experience, T and F Timer acknowledges that setting alarms goes beyond mere reminders, encompassing a spectrum of emotional contexts. Unlike conventional alarms, our product transforms this experience by allowing users to choose from five emotions, each paired with custom-designed sounds and matching colors. This not only aligns with anticipated activities but also creates a personalized, sensory-rich encounter, thereby elevating overall user engagement.

Jung Joo Sohn is an assistant professor of industrial and interaction design at Purdue University. Prior to joining Purdue, Sohn spent more than eight years as a UX (user experience) designer in the Corporate Design Center at Samsung Electronics and was a visiting scholar with the Aware Home Research Initiative (AHRI) at Georgia Institute of Technology. As a multidisciplinary designer, he contributed emerging devices, new mobile services (e.g., artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, and health care), and related user interfaces with cutting-edge technologies in growth markets. Sohn’s research interests lie in the fields of industrial design, interaction design, and user experience. In the fusion of these fields, he focuses on developing technology in harmony with human sensibility and emotions.

Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. Purdue University—West Lafayette is a public institution that was founded in 1869. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 33,646, its setting is city, and the campus size is 2,468 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Purdue University—West Lafayette's ranking in the 2021 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, #53.