Active Gloucestershire
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 with guides, data, stats and case studies to enlighten the user. It provides a charity organization training and courses as well as information for people who want to produce sports activities. it funds sports projects and supports a range of events and campaigns. It is a full detailed directory with good filtering functionality according to sports type and special needs availability. the website aims to help people in Gloucestershire specifically. It is an informational website with one-way communication virtually. It does not develop any social network or connect people together online ...
Analysis of Game On
Link:Ā Ā Ā http://letsgameon.co.uk/gameon/index.html Game On is very similar with our application, but the event page only provides the phone number, website and how many people allowed in an event, it's not enough. Also, I'm not sure about the security of the payment function. Chatting function is considerable, will it be noisy? The Notifications are good, it can remind user don't miss the activity. The Calendar function of Game On is very attractive, which can select date in calendar, also users can organise their activities in a calenfar like page ...
Analysis of GetActive
This is a Web application which provides a platform for sports lovers to host or participate sport activities online, and then to attend these activities offline. Searching function runs well. Every sport has introduction, benefits, and the preparation that participants should make. Locating function does not run well. Filtering function is not easy to use. There is no interaction between online users. Only in Ā London - limited location. Some pages go 404 ...
Analysis of Go sweat
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 time, location and price wise. The user can book and pay through the app securely. Results are shown as a list of boxes and show clubs or activity providers available, the cost, Ā the location and how far is it from the user. There is a review function which allows users to give feedback to other users about their experience. The comparison between sports organizations is beneficial. Payment through the application is for the userās convenience. Low availability of activities in a certain location, as the providers are official organizations. The application does not work as a social network that gathers people around sports, it is a personal service ...
Analysis of HulaHub
https://www.hulahub.com/ HulaHub is an online social website which aims at providing a platform for sports lovers to join any sports activity hosted by other users or host activities by users themselves. When users search for the sports they are interested in, they can either choose any from the list or type in key word in the search bar. Users choose activities online and attend activities offline. This website provides a a chance for sports lovers to make new friends. Location-based website attracts more users from different cities. The filter function runs well and is easy to use. Users can add new contacts on this application. Hosts can choose the type of activities - private or public. As a Web application it is not as flexible as the mobile app. Some pages go 404. Most activities are not free. Locating function does not run very well ...
Analysis of Meetup
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 when, where, and a box to tick if you want to join or not. Group members are authenticated with google Id. There is a discussion board and can add comments on events. The user should join different groups for different sports activities. The creator of the group is the only member to add meetups. The user has to pay to start a new group ...
Analysis of āGet Active Londonā
This application is good and useful, it focuses on Sports activities and the main location of activities is London. It has a good layout, which makes people use it easily. In the main page, there are some different tags to divide different kinds of sports, like āAthleticsā, āBadmintonā, āFootballā...... that makes people can choose quickly and clearly which sports they want to join. It also has location search, you can search your area to make sure if there has an activity in your location. At the same time, when people click a tag, the information page contains a selection box, you can choose Day&Time, Gender and Age, which meet different demand. On the other hand, it has shortcomings. There are not a Map to show different locations, although people can search in the search box, it not intuitive. Just London is the main area of activities, which makes the application is very limited. It also does not have common blackboard that users can not do communication with others, and no place to make people create accounts ...
Analysis of āIMINā
At first, this application is different from our team application, it looks like a mediation point, if someone want to build some activity applications, āIMINā can help you to promote your application. It has some good functions, at first, open the website, people can see a area about Team Introduction, which shows the photos and personal information of team members, people can know who they are, that increases credibility. It also has a News column, shows latest news, people can see more useful information. But the pages are not simple, which makes people hard to read, so many content in the one page, it is not convient for users ...