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 our potential users. That’s why We decided to take their opinion on our design and the main functions that we would like to implement in the application and have their feedback to support the construction of this social network application. We have to choose between two qualitative methods: interviews and surveys. To decide that we weigh the advantages and disadvantages ...

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 application might produce. Our location-based social network unions people online and offline to share the love of a certain sports activity. The design We designed our survey using Google Forms because we are familiar with this tool, it is free, results go directly into a shareable spreadsheet, it supports a wide range of question types, mobile friendly and can get ...

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 positions of Rogers adoption curve (as in lecture on Social Enterprise and are different ‘types of users. Persona1: Ouh 23 years old young man from Thailand, who recently came as a postgraduate student to Southampton. He is a fan of tennis and soccer, likes to watch and practice sports Type of user: sports lover who is willing to meet other people ...

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 checks your Ethics and Research Governance complies with University policy. We haven’t had any experience in that and never used the system before. We discovered that we needed to complete many documents and forms, – and with the help of  the FPSE instructions and guidelines, we figured that we need to produce 4 documents,  templates for each document is found ...

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 and availability around him/her. But it is also an option according to if the user enables the positioning function or not. Gaining the trust is by adding the user another person as a friend, then it will allow him/her to see if he/she has joined a certain sports activity or not. For tracking others, that is not possible in our ...

------------------------------- 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 hope you enjoy it protoio-sosporty-html (2) ...

This are two main interfaces in our applications. Other details can be found in 'Mockups'      ...

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. Location Based Services (LBS) is now used in all kinds of activities to offer positioning service for different applications. For example, if you are in an unknown place and want to know anything about the nearest specific service when you inform your application by your mobile then the app compares your location and the desired place stored in the database ...

For SoSporty, designed three logos to choose, these logos have different color and different styles. These are all of choices. This one was used blue color, and a skiing man in the top to show the idea of “sporty”. This one was used orange color, orange expresses passion, doing sports can give people passion and energy. In the left, four rectangles look like energy column in science fiction film. This one was chose as logo for our application. The color is green, green expresses sustainable development and give people a fresh feeling. A cheering man shows positive attitude. Because of ...

Mockups This is the “Welcome” page, users can log in and create personal accounts in here. Users also can also log in with Facebook or Google account. This page is main page of App, the top left corner is the personal menu button, beside it is searching box, users can search different information in here. On the right of the searching box is the filter function, there are many tags are selected by users themselves.  In the middle, a map is showed, all of activities are showed in map as “red pins”, when users tap these red pins, they can see brief ...