Pulp - Proposal

Meet the Team

● Max Lu - Junior in CS, mrlu2@illinois.edu

● Jatin Pandey - Senior in CS, pandey5@illinois.edu

● James Spotanski - Senior in CS, spotans1@illinois.edu

● Anant Singh - Junior in CS, aksingh4@illinois.edu

● Rishi Chitkara - Senior in CS, chitkar1@illinois.edu

● Siddharth Seth - Junior in CS, sseth2@illinois.edu

BrainStorming the ProblemFood Location Friends Work/Education SocialRestaurant Location sharing Meet-ups Assignments EventsCuisine Check-Ins Group Productivity PartiesDiners Maps Circles Organization HackathonsHygiene Distance Party Hopping Books ChatCooking Workplace Study Groups Learning ProfileDiet Travel Collaboration Teachers StatusFood Review GPS Drinks Tutoring NetworkingNutrition Live Tracking Security Grades DatingRecipes Geo-fence Relationships Projects CirclesOnline Order Party Calendars Library Facebook

Interest based Dating App

Dating

Chat

Meet-ups

Restaurant

Profile

Relationships

Buddy Travel

Travel

Live Tracking

Distance

Networking

Meet-ups

Location Sharing

Maps

Collabrative Cooking

Cuisine

Location Sharing

Diet

Cooking

Recipes

Networking

Events

Location based Activity

Sharing

Location Sharing

Check-ins

Restaurant

Events

Maps

Chat

Profile

Networking

Collaboration

Study Groups

Circles

The Problem

The Problem

Why is this problem important?

● People are decreasing real-world interaction due to ease of access to social media on the internet

● Apps that have location sharing are obtrusive - Eg: Find My Friends and Foursquare show your locations openly

● Our app allows for creation of clusters of friends based on common activities

● Often, people spend lots of time coordinating meeting locations before events

● Many people in vicinity might be open to interaction but actually initiating contact is awkward

Who are the target users?

Adolescents13-19

Young Adults18-25

Middle Adults20-40

Problem Illustration

Current Location Sharing Services =

Obtrusive

● Constant location monitoring results in privacy concerns

● Not all friends are equal

● Battery life

What do users have?

● Applications that constantly monitor location

● Match users based on location and previously indicated preferences

What do users want?

● Share location and activity with people that they are comfortable providing the information to

● Discover new activities and people around the area

Solutions

Encourage people to meet face-to-face

Enable parents to monitor their children unobtrusively

Solutions

● List available freinds

● Displays their status

and distance

● Ping a friend

● Organise a meetup

Solutions

● Create Events

● Categorise them

using graphical aids

● Lookup/RSVP for a

public event

● Invite Friends to the

event as well

Solutions

● Fine grained control

over location sharing

● Option of completely

disappearing off the

grid

● Also to share

selectively with friends.

Alternative apps

● Heyo is an app which deals with location sharing among friends. It is more professionally focused and requires users to pay for using it

Alternative apps

●Another app providing similar features is Find my Friends. Doesn’t give users the option to Geo-fence their location

Why is this solution novel?

● Our app protects the privacy of the users by providing the Geo-Fencing facility and is free of cost to use. Users can easily sign in using their Facebook profile

Timetable

Low Fidelity Prototype and Presentation

Late October

Evaluation and Revision of Prototype

Mid November

Present Revised Prototype Late November

Final Presentation - Demo Early-Mid December