Idea Synthesis

Following the first night of whiteboard ideas we did as the whole team, we rated the initial ideas on what we felt of them and considered what we’d like to do as a team project. We didn’t intend especially to have a certain amount of creative contribution each in it, but we unanimously decided that a combination of Dushyant’s Freshers App idea, Ben’s 3D Map App idea and my U+WE teacher interaction idea were good matches to be the building blocks for the team’s app.

As an aside, both me and Ben felt my Augmented Campus idea actually was more interesting, but the U+WE teacher-based idea fitted better into an amalgamation of other ideas.

Team Initial Idea: u+we freshers

So the idea we decided to start working on takes the essential idea of a Fresher’s application that will support them in the early weeks before and after term starts in the autumn (primarily) and in the beginning of the calendar year (secondarily). It would not have any function over the summer, and would still have some functionality in the term times if there are new students or there are features of the app students want to use despite the lack of a Fresher’s period.

The app would include information of course/module cohorts and neighbours in university accomodations, an easy to use 3D map of campus that can lead you to where you need to go and a number of pieces of useful information such as course schedule, lecturer availability and of course Students’ Union parties and activities!

The main focus on the app is to be a service of reliable support, a digital reassurance of life on campus.

Further work

This is of course only where the group work starts, and we’re not excluding pulling in more original ideas, adding new ideas or removing them.

More research will be done with Freshers as well as technical viability of current ideas as well as peer review of story board and other analyses that we have yet to decide. This is work in progress!

App Planning Guide Notes

Who for:

  • New students (mainly)

Where:

  • With welcome letters etc

How are you trying to make them feel? What is the intended user experience?

  • Reassurance, quite en-compassing, a little bit parenting (positive relevance)

What will make the app play?

  • GSM and GPS locations, vicinity to areas
  • Direct user interactions with some areas
  • Direct user interaction with social interface

What sort of content will you make?

  • It will use pictures, maps and text
  • Sound alerts (can be muted)

How long will it last?

  • Around the clock
  • Meant to last primarily for Fresher’s periods around September and January.
    • May have limited support rest of year as well
    • Mainly not working during summertimes

 

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