USC CSCI 577A Course Project Renge App Team #1 USC CSCI 577A Course Project

01 02 03 04 INTRO TABLE OF CONTENTS COMMUNICA TION HAS CHANGED MORE EFFICIENT SOCIAL -THE NEW NORM USERS NEED A BETTER WAY RENGE BORN Online message is low-efficiency Better communication with body language Wasting lots of time to join useless meeting Face to face talking Target people want to be social with Use geographical advantages Well-in-formed locations and event details Without join tons of useless meeting to find only one useful Without social through lots of people to know the “only” one Without obsessed by message convey limitation Create account Complete profile and “tags” Share and know about others locations Remind of in- coming events and target people’s Chat and meet with others The renge app is a social network application. But it’s not a traditional one. Firstly it’s total free and also it’s more like a template to support people find jobs or cooperator. As well as, our app would provide more efficient social way, the app will recommend some person and events users more interested in. Users firstly create acount and complete profile. Users could choose to share their interest. System could recommend them some other users. After users became friends in our app, they could start to meet with each other. Our app also would help them locate their position and track route. User could

Core Capacity It’s time for a new medium— a medium that retains Social software’s ability to make new friends and increase the probability to find target without wasting time. 1.Real-time Location Tracking(fundamental), database is graph database provided by clients. 2.User Log-in based on third-party social application such as Facebook, Google. 3.User friend request and approve. 4.Recommendation Algorithm based on interest( friends, events). 5.Message send and receive. Slidedocs™ is a trademark of Duarte Press LLC. All rights reserved.

The Personas for Renge App Job Seeker - Steve Aoki Employer – Calvin Harris

Job seeker – Steve Aoki Basic information: Age: 25 Gender: Male Occupation: Student Location: Torrance, CA Description: Aoki is a master’s student of USC major in computer science. He has solid knowledge of computer science and programming skill. Attributes: -Student -Busy Goals & Aspirations -Find a job before graduate -Meet employer face-to-face User Scenario: It is the last year for Aoki to stay at school and he wants to work immediately after he graduate, so he is looking for job now. He uses LinkedIn and goes to several career fairs, but he can’t get an interview chance. He wants an oppor-tunity to meet employer face-to-face.

Employer– Calvin Harris Basic information: Age: 32 Gender: Male Occupation: CTO Location: Pasadena, CA Description: Harris is a CTO in a startup company. He is seeking for Software Engineers who has great programming skills to form a technical team in a sort time. Attributes: -Employer -Busy -Practitioner Goals & Aspirations -Find several developers within short time -Meet job seekers face-to-face User Scenario: Harris developed a Trading Bot for Crypto Currencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc. His friends and him decided to start a company to make it a product and sell it in a short time period. Harris needs more Software Engineers to help him with developing. He uses LinkedIn to find employees, but it’s hard for a startup to attract attention from job seekers. He wants to be able to talk to job seekers face-to-face in order to let them know how promising is the product and assess their coding ability.

“ ” Introduce the prototype and risk mitigation strategies. Photo: Copyright Source: http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130701022638-22330283-a-simple-rule-to-eliminate-useless-meetings

Map View: Why prototype it? Dependent on COTS: Google Maps SDK and API Need to evaluate the cost Proof of concept: Search nearby venues Use iPhone GPS location

Risk mitigation COTS functionality confirmed Google Maps providing a map view for iOS Google Maps API providing search for venues functionality Google Maps enabling showing user’s current location on map Further risks API cost API stability

Risk mitigation (continued) Team members familiarity with iOS development Self-learning, group study Setting up version control, GitHub project board Self-learning, experiments Negotiation with client

Further Improvements UI needs more polish Test integration with other views Add search by keywords functionality

Conclusion Renge App is a efficient social application with huge potential. Persona analysis shows clearly how users benefit from this app. Map View prototype mitigates some major risk of the iOS client development.