1. The Campus Assistance Tool
CampusTracker
The Campus Assistance Tool

2. Modern Universities Campus is alive
Many learning opportunities for students to engage in
Exposure to a diverse number of campus interests

3. Main Concepts
Application focused on delivering relevant data to student’s fingertips
Create campus awareness among students
Promote exploration and growth of many learning disciplines

4. Who Wants It? Campus students of all ages and skill levels
Freshmen could use it to navigate the campus
Seniors could use it to track down career fairs

5. Specific Feature Set
Deliver desired data to user in real time and on the fly
Make use of location awareness to visually present data (i.e. informing the user what is going around him/her)
Allow users to customize received data based on profile
Provide an API for service providers

6. Implementation Models
A central server will hold a vast database
Clients running on mobile devices will communicate with the server to gather data
Relevant data will be grouped as “services” a user can “subscribe” to
Location tracking through wireless trilateration (802.11b protocol)

7. Who Will Support It?
Service should be offered and maintained by the University.
A group needs to ensure that the server is up to date and running properly
Client software should be offered free to student body

8. Stakeholders, Risks, and Payoffs
Main stakeholder is the university; they spend the time and money to implement the service.
Worst thing is that no one uses the service, or students find it redundant; university loses time and money
Payoff is improved university image, since students have a richer learning experience

9. Feasibility Are we nuts?
From the developer’s perspective, the implementation is feasible. Similar things have been done (UCSD’s ActiveCampus)
Hardware constraints: WiFi sucks up a lot of power, how long can the user be connected without their device dying?
Realistically, we will need widespread deployment for the application to grow
Will all students be able to have a mobile device? (time to start asking MS for more donations…)
Service providers will have to evaluate whether it’s worth providing the service or not

10. In Case You’re Still Wondering…
A few use cases:
Bob passes by the Allen Center, and sees that there is a talk on compilers that is being given on the 6th floor
Sarah wants to know when her next bus will arrive
James is eating lunch at the hub, when his mobile device alerts him of a career fair going on upstairs
Jenny happens to pass by Schmitz on her way to the bookstore, and her mobile device reminds her tuition is due in three days
Mike has a question for his data structures class, and he quickly checks if his professor is holding office hours