GroupBrainstorm-Group:Boom Tho

From CS 160 Fall 2010

Contents 1 Boom Tho Members 2 Brainstorm Ideas (58 Ideas) 3 Idea Selection 4 Description 4.1 Target User Group 4.2 Problem Description & Context 4.3 Why Mobile? 5 Sketches

Boom Tho Members

• Richard Laroue
• James Yu
• Robert Connick
• Jonathan Look

Boom Tho Page

Brainstorm Ideas (58 Ideas)

Weight trainers

1. List/graph bodyweight, diet
2. workout log; choose types of workout, reps, weight, etc.
3. BMI calculator
4. progress tracker; tracks weight and number of reps for each workout
5. food finder for a restaurant given current diet
6. nutrition scheduler
7. nutritional facts bar-code scanner
8. exercises adviser
9. exercise planner
10. nutrition logger
11. ingredients to meal planner for groceries
12. sleep tracker
13. workout play-lists

Other athletes/sports

1. basketball player network app for finding places to play based on where friends are
2. Runners, track events and performance
3. Swimmers, Runners, accelerometer automatically starts/stops timer
4. "How Drunk Will I Get?" (BAC estimator, based on age, body mass, etc.)

Elderly/Disabled

1. remote controlled wheel chair app
2. prescription medicine application
3. medicine logger/reminder
4. medicine/food compatibility adviser
5. workout app for disabled people, prosthetic
6. speed tracker for wheel chairs

Gamers

1. price comparator for games
2. game news and reviews app
3. game release date reminder
4. seller app with locator

Environmentalist

1. compost app
2. local pollution meter
3. package material decomposition information
4. product comparator - find similar but more ecofriendly products

Bus Driver/Riders

1. Bus driver "running-late passenger" notice
2. Location-based transportation schedule
3. Bus driver disabled passenger notification

Businessmen

1. Sound locator for lost phones on silent (send a text message to re-enable sound)
2. Location-based ring changer
3. Location based reminder system
4. Streaming peer-to-peer video

Musicians/Dancers

1. Musicians, track practice
2. Musicians, listen and continue to display notes when the right note is played
3. Musicians, track mistakes and time
4. Autotune app (talk, app adjusts voice pitch to music)
5. Learn how to dance app; uses acceleration to ID steps, show steps on screen like DDR

Pet owners

1. Lost pet tracker
2. GPS shock collar to train pets to stay close

People who get lost a lot even though they go there every day

1. GPS req. internet connection; instead download whole map
2. Or don't download whole map, just places you often visit

Outdoorsmen

1. Bird call identifier
2. animal call identifier, factors in location, weather, time to identify animal
3. Thermometer App that uses cricket calls per second
4. Storm lightning/thunder distance app
5. Poisonous animal bite identifier
6. wild animal/creature tourist app; informs user of local wildlife in area
7. location/weather based solar power estimator
8. allergy conditions app based on locale
9. local UV exposure app
10. surf conditions app
11. car accelerometer

Idea Selection

The idea we chose was a pickup basketball networking app. The app comprises a peer-to-peer network to which users can upload pickup basketball game times and locations. Other potential players can see a timetable of scheduled games with the names of their locations. We first went through our list and eliminated ideas for which the Archos 5 lacked hardware support. We also cut out ideas that had been done with very similar apps. We arrived at this idea through independently selecting our top five ideas and seeing which overlapped. A reason why this app was chosen is because the target group of this app (pickup basketball players) is well-defined and we could conceivably find users in this target group. Another reason is that we could easily think of extensions to this app, for example forming basketball teams, lists of basketball courts, scorekeeping, etc.

Description

Target User Group

The target user group is people who often play pick-up games of basketball. This probably means (but is not limited to) young males between the ages of 15 to 25. This application will service anyone who has ever wanted to play quality games of pick up basketball, but struggled to find a good place to play or people to play with. Also, this app is for basketball players who would rather not have to send out a lot of text messages or call all of their friends in order to put together a good pick-up run. This app does not include a map or GPS locator: the target user group is already familiar with all potential game locations and only needs to know which has a game at a given time.

Problem Description & Context

To play a game of basketball, players must be in the same place at the same time. They are often spread across one or several cities. Normally, coordination is done with traditional phone calls and text messages. This takes time on the part of the caller, and only people whom he specifically invites will know about the game. Also, someone who’s interested in playing quality pick-up basketball might show up to a park that he thinks will have people playing only to find that all his friends are at another park. This application gives users the ability to amass a network of friends or people they’ve met that also play basketball and know where and when they are playing basketball. Users will be able check the application and find out where all the basketball players in their network are playing basketball.

Why Mobile?

A typical mobile device is always carried by the user. Even roaming around a city, anyone carrying a mobile device can be in contact with anyone else. For people who often play basketball in one of several locations, a mobile device is the only way to contact them reliably, or for them to stay in contact with others.

Sketches