MobileFun

Mac-Anthony ManuEmmanuel Antwi Nkansah

Adeyemi AdetuwoEllis Dzakpasu

Our Project

• investigate how young people in our region engage in social leisure activities and to design a mobile application that supports a fun social leisure activity

Current Social Leisure Applications

• Buzzmob• Foursquare

Requirements

• Functional Requirements• User Experience Requirements

Research and Analysis

• Interviewed 20 individuals to find out how they engage in social leisure activities

• Grouped results from interview interviews by function into three groups: sports, events and games

Interview Question

Questions asked:• What is your favorite social leisure activity?• How long does this social activity usually last?• What are some of the things you do at this activity?• Does your phone or technology play in this activity?• If yes, what role does it play?• ……

Analysis

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What is your favourite social leisure activity?

SportsEvents/Going outGames

• What do you do at this social activity?• Responses:

Sports• Talk about previous, on going and future matches• Make calls to inform absent friends of progress of match• Publicize happenings on social network• Take pictures of memorable happenings and upload on social networks• Browse for up-to-date information on league or league standings• Grab a drink with friends if at sports bar

Events/Going Out• Talk about performances• Discuss music• Publicize happenings on social network• Taking pictures • Uploading pictures

Games• Discuss game releases • Chat via VOIP (Voice over IP)• Discuss graphics• Update state of game on social network

Personas

Edem

• Edem is a 20 year old 2nd year medical student in the university who spends his week days in the library studying and preparing for upcoming quizzes. His “work hard, play hard” attitude means he spends his Friday evenings out with friends clubbing and Saturday mornings playing football to keep fit and improve on his dribbling skills. After the morning game Edem grabs a drink with his friends; a chance for them to discuss the game into detail and talk about upcoming matches. His Saturday afternoons however are dedicated to catching up on missed premier league games and logs in on his phone to publish his comments, scores and ideas concerning the coaching tactics of his favorite team Arsenal. Edem wishes he had a way to interact with football lovers around the country and stay up-to-date on upcoming premier league matches at the same time.

“I socialize through sports”

Scenarios• Edem makes phone calls to friends not with him as the game is being played. They

mostly talk about things that are not going on well with the team they support. Edem and his friends suggest what they think the players or coach should do to improve the teams performance. They also try to establish if their team will lose or win the game

• Edem logs onto a social network site at the end of the game to view what others who watched the match have to say. He goes to the comments section of the site and posts his comments on some of these opinions. He also chats with friends that are also online while responding to text messages from some other friends.

• Edem likes to get statistics on the matches he’s watched and those played elsewhere. He goes to one of his favorite sites for football information. He analyzes the information and makes predictions about upcoming matches.

Owusuwaa• Owusuwaa is a 22 year old 3rd year Vodafone Telecommunications intern.

She spends a great deal of her day working and still makes time to chill and stay ‘on top’ of upcoming social events. On Friday nights, she makes a couple of phone calls to rally her friends to go partying or to events with her and makes more phone calls when she arrives to inform them that she has arrived. After each epic night Owusuwaa and friends share their views on the attended events or parties online by logging into their respective social networks and posting comments. Owusuwaa dislikes the fact she has to make so many phone calls every time they attend an event and also dislikes the fact that she has to switch between social networks in order to get all her friends to see her comments concerning the events.

“I socialize through events”

Scenarios• Owusuwaa arrives home on a Friday night. Then she starts her weekly ritual of

calling friends only that this time she is too tired to call one friend after the other, too tired to talk on the phone for that long. She ends up going to the club with fewer friends than usual.

• Owusuwaa arrives at a movie premier a bit later than usual on another Friday night. The cinema is unusually full and she cant find a place to get in. It’s quite noisy outside too and she cannot make a phone call in that environment.

• Owusuwaa wakes up on a Saturday morning, she is tired but excited. She had an amazing night and was really looking forward to sharing her experiences with her friends. She wished they were right there in front of her.

Yaw• Yaw is a 18 year old 1st year computer science student in the university.

His hobbies are reading tech reviews or forums and solving tough programming questions. He spends most of his free time coding and distresses by playing games on his new i7 computer. Yaw spends his Friday evenings playing first person network games that last approximately 5 hours with his friends. The games usually involve 10 to 20 people on a created ad-hoc network and gives them a chance to chat with each other using the stereo headsets they possess whiles having fun. After the game, Yaw logs in online to blog the results of the game. He also posts updates on upcoming competitions he and his friends organize monthly. Yaw wishes he had an “all in one” application that will allow him to send these updates to his friends’ phones as most of them hardly ever go online to read the updates from his blog.

“I socialize through games”

Scenarios• Yaw loves playing video games with his friends over a network. He gets a router

and sends a mail to his friends. He sets the router up and distributes a wireless network connection. Yaw and his friends connect and play. During the game, he chats with his friends.

• Yaw loves reading about tech and as such he is always on forums commenting and posting his views about tech. He goes online and enters a forum where he meets different people and discusses the latest tech and games news available.

• Yaw is a game fanatic and so blogs about his games and experiences. After every Friday’s gaming session, he blogs about outcome. His friends comment and this lead to a discussion.

Concept

Brainstorming• A cross-platform communication tool• Shows upcoming events, games or sports games• Shouting as a one to many action• Whispering as a one to one function• Shout on arrival feature to inform friends or group of your arrival at event or place• Most matches are watched in bars making it a fun social experience• Sports groups are called bars• Online status • Grab a drink – to refresh screen whiles in bar mode• Get some air – to refresh screen whiles in event mode• Place a bet in bar mode to make a public announcement of your stance• Score-board with all past, current and future statistics of team

Scenario

• Shout on arrival• Whisper• Create a Bar • Grab a drink – refresh• Leave Bar