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IS20110 Social Media

Reflections
26/04/2013

By: Dnal Morrissey

Home2Class

Group Thirteen

Concept
Our concept was to create an app which would enable the user to plan their journey from their own home to their assigned class room. The user could plan their journey on public transport, which would leave them at UCD and from there, using internal floor plans; our app could direct them to their classroom.

Group Formation
For our assignment we were asked form a group and to solve an information problem using either an App or a Mashup. Our group was formed by association and we quickly found common ground. The Group consisted of 6 People:
Myself Frances Haider San Eammon

We all agreed to meet every Friday after the Lab.

Method
For the first few weeks, after each lab session on Fridays, we met in a coffee shop to thrash out our ideas. We quickly decided base our assignment on an App, using the App Maker Store to create it. Next we went looking for an information problem which affected us all. As we are part-time students, we were not familiar with the UCD campus and attached buildings. So we felt this was an area which needed more investigation. Although there are plenty of campus maps around UCD we discovered that there was no way of viewing internal floor plans of the buildings unless you were in that particular building. 2

Home2Class Group Thirteen We delegated tasks to each member and set realistic targets for completion. As there were six people on the team we each took a task to focus on. I was charged with developing the multimedia portion of the assignment. This was to include a short video describing and advertising our finish product.

Issues
Unfortunately our group of 6 was reduced to 5 and then 4, and with them went the ideas and their segments of the project. I had also engaged with Google Floor Plans, which would have allowed us to use Google Maps to zoom in in relevant buildings to display their floor plans. After uploaded the floor plans of the Newman Buildings, regrettably Google took too long to approve the summited plans so we were unable to use this function.

Reflection
I found the module most informative, relaxed and enjoyable. While some of the topics were fun they most defiantly had a more serious underside. The concept of ethics, privacy and social change were fascinating. This module has genuinely opened my eye to:
The sheer amount of Social Media environments available The range of groups catered for The social dependency we are creating on the internet and constant connectivity.

Had we not been delayed by Google or an ever diminishing group, I feel we would have been in a position to deliver a unique and convenient app. We would like to have extended it to cover all buildings on the UCD campus so as to assist the student who has not found their feet yet.

Home2Class

Group Thirteen

Many thanks to Hanna for her refreshing and energetic presentations.

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