——————————- CLICK ME TO SEE THE DEMO! ——————————- this is our SoSporty interactive Demo of some of the main functions and was designed using portio above is the link of the demo and below is the screening of the demo
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Interactive prototype of SoSporty
SoSporty Scenario
Scenario: John the professional tennis player who is visiting his parents in Southampton feels responsible to encourage people to exercise and practice sports, he has lots of digital connections, he login to SoSporty and created a tennis event for 4
Read moreDifferent types of users and personas:
Different types of users and personas: In this post, we will introduce users’ persona’s that we will use in our scenario. We have considered that our users will be adults with multicultural and have also chosen users who fit different
Read moreThe database used in SoSporty
The database used in SoSporty There are many database systems to be used such as LevelDB and Couchbase Lite but they are compatible with android systems only. Since we are using both platforms and operating systems (android-IOS) for developing our
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Data storage Our approach to data storage differs according to the operating system used with our SoSporty application. Android provides several options to save application data. Android provides 2 storage options for files – Internal and External. Internal is private
Read moreHow SoSporty has dealt with Privacy issues:
How SoSporty has dealt with Privacy issues: Referring to the previous post about different privacy issues associated with LBS. here what our application aims to do. Controlling how much and what activities can the user sees cooperate with his convenience
Read moreLocation-based technology services (LBS) and issues around them
Location-based technology services: This is a very popular service based on different navigation technologies. LBS is a wireless service that determines the location information of the information device user by using Geographical Information System (GIS) and other satellite navigation platform.
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All users in SoSporty are made aware and acknowledged on how their data is used and what they are used for. We are being transparent about our privacy policies, so when a user signs up to SoSporty they have to
Read moreSoSporty Connecting Online With offline social roles
Connecting Online With offline social roles We consider in our design of the application to try to provide what can help to socially spread quickly and engage people more into the network The first point is from the
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Users Our potential users are as mentioned above: Browsers who would like to know what is going around them, searchers for activities, types, location, and dates Casual Users who may join sports activities occasionally and need motivation to exercise by
Read moreGetting the Ethical Approve for The Survey
Getting the Ethical Approve for The Survey Conducting a survey means that we need to have an ethical approve since we are sampling people, so we need to apply for ERGO. ERGO is the University of Southampton system that
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Designing The survey: Our aim Our project aims to design a location-based sportive online social network. So it aims is to explore people’s use of sports activities related social networks, their opinions, requirements, and preferences about what our “SoSporty” network
Read moreConducting a Qualitative method to meet our potential users preferences and expectations
Preparing Our Survey In order to see what elements of social networking application are most important and will satisfy our users, we decided to use a qualitative method to investigate. For our application to be successful it has to fulfill
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Meeting 6 On Friday 16/03 Present: Shahini Rana, Cheng Yixuan, Meng Xianglin, Hao Mengzi. Our first meeting with our mentor was held from 12 to 1 pm. she listened to our proposal and gave us really useful hints and suggestions. as it was the last
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https://www.meetup.com/ Meet up is a mobile application that shows different groups available according to your preferences, interests and near to your location to join. Then the upcoming activities and meetups within this group will appear to you, with information about
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It is a charity website of a national network of county sport and physical activity partnerships. It is a directory of sports clubs and activities that can be filtered by sports type and special needs categories. It provides informational services
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https://www.gosweat.com/ It is a mobile application that helps the user to choose the right club to exercise or to practice a certain sports activity that suits his/her budget and location. It is a sports facilitator brings different options to compare
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Meeting 1 On Friday 23/02 Present: Shahini Rana, Cheng Yixuan, Meng Xianglin, Hao Mengzi. Our first official meeting was held for a brainstorming to come up with one agreed idea, as we previously agreed for each one to come with
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