As university students, there are few things we face on a daily basis that involve as much inertia as getting out of bed in the morning and heading for class. The snooze button is also, undeniably, an enemy in disguise and we are all guilty of abusing it. But what if we had no choice but to get out off bed in the morning just to switch off the dreaded alarm?

Walk Up! is an alarm app that makes use of a device's step counter as the primary mechanism for switching off alarms. When setting an alarm the night before, users will also set the distance to their bathroom in steps and this will be the number of steps required to switch off the alarm in the morning. In addition to this, users will also select the type of sleeper they are. The alarm sounds available are categorised according to light, medium, and heavy sleepers. This categorisation is based on how annoying the sounds are. Each morning, a sound in the chosen category will be selected at random so that users do not get used to the sound after hearing it everyday.