NASA has been known for its collaborative works in various fields, it also openly welcomes ideas from the public. This time NASA Tournament Lab (NTL) is asking asked public with programing skills to help design a smartwatch app. As per the agency the smartwatch app will be used by astronauts in space.

The challenge is to design the general user interface for smart watch applications for use on the International Space Station (ISS). NTL has asked people participating in the contest to use the Samsung Gear 2 as a 'hardware reference' for the design.

It has also asked designer that the app should have the ability to perform a variety of functions, streamlining an astronaut's daily life. Presently, astronauts aboard ISS use laptops and iPads to look at their tasks each day, but the smartwatch app should be built to display a timeline of current, past and future tasks, NTL said.

"The smartwatch app should also have a caution/warning application, a timer and a communication status application that "will display whether or not the vehicle is currently able to communicate with the ground through either voice/video", said NTL.

NTL stated that it requires designer to put all these functions in a single app. The designs should direct attention to the appropriate information for a task and increase efficiency, provide appropriate feedback to actions, be legible on the smaller Samsung Gear screen.

The winner of the competition will get prize money of $1500, but the agency said the perks of designing an app for NASA probably will probably outweigh the cash in the eyes of many app designers.