Naida Balafkan

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Economic Context

  The Story of Us is a charity- based application, which would be free of charge for its members. The initial business plan is to contact local funeral homes to fund our idea in exchange of free advertisement on the app. The plan is to expand to regional funeral homes after the app has taken …

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Anonymity

  Our social network application provides four main features: Contacting a local counsellor Information on mental health topics Instant messaging Forum chats The Story of Us is an application that supports its users’ during the bereavement process. Therefore, it is crucial to have a robust system that protects the anonymity of its users at all …

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Use of Technologies

After market research has been conducted the implementation of The Story Of Us application will start. In the following post we will discuss the technologies and tools that will be implemented on the app.  The Story of Us make use of Web- and mobile-based technologies for an enriched experience. The use of technologies may vary …

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UML Diagram

The class diagram of The Story of Us social network illustrates the basic structure of this application. The main class User contains all the users of the app. Users have the option of selecting their location. If users choose to do so users can link up to other users in the same area. Users struggling …

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Flow Diagram

    The image below illustrates the flowchart of The Story of Us application. The application is only accessible for registered users.  There is only one app version so all users have access to all the features such as messaging other users, contacting a counsellor, writing in the forum or write to their supoort group. …

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