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DESIGN PROPOSAL

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MAIN CONCEPTS A GPS/Internet based social mobile

application Main function – location tracking Encourage people to MEET UP!!!

(instead of chatting in Facebook/MSN!!)


RELATED WORKS

GPS ME Send of information and check in Google Map


Voila Similar to GPS

ME Wi-Fi and cell

tower location technology


Social GPS Share friends’

locations Single map

interface J2ME, Perl and

MySql


Ipoki Share photos within the map


Mii


BACKGROUND RESEARCH Face-to-face communication has been

lessened due to the rapid growth of technology and the adopted busy lifestyle

Online communication would lose some of the meanings within the message since only 7% of the communication is its linguistic content, and the other part are verbal and visual


CONCEPT IDEA Pixie Dust


TARGET GROUPS For people using mobile phones Six out of ten people around the world

have mobile phone subscriptions HIGH popularity


MAIN FUNCTION Browsing friends’ locations Send my own location Display of current status Group messaging/Private messaging


FEATURES Cartoon virtual world Customized map which u can move the location of the

favourite based icon Set the favourite locations by circling a specific area on

an actual map Showing the location in an area aspect instead of

showing the actual street/point A location = A room contains all characters who are

now in that loctaions Each user is cartoon character represented Status is represented by the expression or actions of

the character (Happy, sad, angry with Emma, eating with Emma, having Steve’s class with Emma.. etc)

With group function (show specific group only, show all friends, show friends of friends, show hot girls)


MESSAGING FUNCTION A location based messaging function

available Send message according to location Basic functions (private message, group

message..)


DESIGN RESOLUTION Very brief concept Unknown technologies used for the

application (WI-FI/cell phone tower/GPS?)

Unknown ethical issues (Over-sharing?) Unknown amount of human labour Unknown…

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