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Tech Demo<\/h1>\n
<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A preliminary demo of the app which has been developed and deployed using the Google App Engine and can be found here:\u00a0https:\/\/hobby-link.appspot.com. <\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n The app was developed using Angular 4 (an MVC javascript framework). This can easily be developed into an iOS and Android\u00a0app using NativeScript <\/a>which also uses\u00a0 Angular4.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n It contains a simple login form that verifies that the user has a valid university\u00a0email ( all that would remain would be a confirmation email for verification) using the Hipo\u00a0Dataset.<\/a> This dataset contains a list of\u00a0list of universities and their domain names.<\/p>\n I created a script that takes the supplied email and verifies that it is a valid university domain. This way we are able to automatically generate a user’s country and university by looking at their emails.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Once a user has been authenticated, they are taken to the ‘hobby selection’ page where they must select hobbies they are interested in. They must then go through the fine-tuning process of swiping left or right on suggested hobbies so the algorithm can get a better understanding of the user’s interests and thus make accurate matches.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/pops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/265\/2018\/05\/welcome-171x300.png\")
University email verification<\/h2>\n
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Hobby selection<\/h2>\n