CONFERENCE TEXTNathan Gladysz

Sean AdamsJames Smith

Ryan Colosimo

Abstract

Mobile apps are all the rage these days Texting has never been a more frequent

activity There are chat room apps that allow for

public and private conversations over irc client

Existing Technologies

Colloquy is an existing chat room app

Public and private chat rooms

Emoticon support Customizable

appearance Automatic

connection timeout

Idea

iPhone peer to peer chat room application

Handles media like photos and videos Uses the existing text messaging system

for text sending and receiving Only handles private chat rooms User can create as many chat rooms with

as many members as he/she desires No client dependencies so no connection

timeouts

Design

Peer to peer/both phones need the app to use chat app

App aggregates texts marked for a specific chat room in app window for the chat

App integrates picture and video messages just like text messages