LifeAtHere

Project Description

There is a clear need for a Campus Life assistant that would provide context-based (via geolocation, time, ongoing events, etc.) notifications and information. Sample use case: Commencement Day, with the solution providing information for both students and visitors, indicating appropriate nearby parking lots, next events and contact information for the assigned Assistant.

Goals

Provide a tool that will help the institution’s community to keep in touch with ongoing events and required tasks.

Constraints

The solution may be able to operate in temporary offline mode, due to mobile connectivity constraints.

Resources

University-backed APIs able to provide the required information as well as authentication. The Enterprise Systems department may be able to work together with the students to provide those.

Group Summary

Events happen on Bucknell’s campus every day! From multicultural events, to Greek events, to athletic events, there is no single resource for students and visitors alike to find all the information they need for any given event. A project that could bring together these events and present information in a user friendly way could would be useful to all people on campus.

Identified Pains

Too much going on and not enough ways to find out what is happening
People use different mediums to advertise and schedule their events
Information on events can be hard to find (parking, time, other conflicting events)

Proposed Problem Description

So many events happen at Bucknell and there is no single resource to find out what is going on. Additionally, these events can conflict and create issues on campus that include parking difficulties, poor event attendance, and lost visitors. We need to build an application that can solve this problem.

Proposed Goals

Mobile app

Contributors

Lucas Nicolois, Sienna Mosher, Allan La, Lukas Munoz, Matthew Rogge

Brainstorming

Bobby Cao, Thomas Ficcadenti, Lucas Gregory, Jingya Wu, Stefano Cobelli

Our takeaways included event recommendation to users, daily events page, chatting tool to connect with attendees, and event filtering based on user interests.

BrainStorming sheet