1. Gaido Presented by: Ryan Curtis and Scott Markoski Advisor: Bob Dugan Department of Computer Science Stonehill College Easton, MA 02357

2. Background: Computer Science Capstone Course  Most computer science courses are concerned with fundamental principles.  The Capstone course is concerned with real world software development and delivery.  The Capstone course is writing intensive: project management essay, requirements document, design document, user manual.  The Capstone course is based on a real world software development project with a real client.

3. Background: Prior Capstone Projects  Automated Ticketing System  Automate and streamline Stonehill College Police parking ticket process.  Merit Point Automation System  Automate and streamline Residence Life Merit Point Program for housing lottery.  NPO Net  Social networking website for Non-Profit Organizations

4. Background: Computer Science Capstone Project 2010  Stonehill Marketing and Admissions  Interested in new ways to reach prospective students.  Many prospective students are stealth tourists and don’t participate in college sponsored tours.  One possibility is a mobile touring application.  Existing mobile touring applications are lack exciting features and are expensive due to hosting costs.  Mobile Applications  A mobile application enables a user to access web data wirelessly through WiFi or cell networks.  Location based mobile application make use of on board GPS data to provide location based services.  Examples: GPS Navigation, Yelp, Google Googles, Google Maps  Working with Stonehill Marketing and Admissions, the students in the Computer Science Capstone developed Gaido.

5. What is Gaido?  Gaido is a location based mobile application that…  Allows users to take a guided tour of a location such as a school, neighborhood, park or historic location.  Allows users to view picture, video, audio and text content associated with each tour destination.  Allows users interact with specially designed content.  Downloads tour data from a web server managed by GaidoManager.  GaidoManager is a content management system that…  Allows a tour administrator to create and edit tour themes at a particular tour site.  Allows a tour administrator to create and edit tour destinations at a particular tour site.  Associate picture, video, audio and text content with tour destinations.  Allows a tour administrator to view a live map showing tour users, tour destinations and tour interactions.

6. Demo One: Gaido

7. Demo Two: GaidoManager

8. Gaido Interactions The environment outside the smartphone can also interact with the user during a tour.

9. Gaido Architecture

10. GaidoManager Architecture

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12. Gaido GPS Publisher Service

13. Gaido GPS Heading Calculator

14. GadioManager: Live User Location

15. GaidoManager: Live User Location Updating

16. Future Work  Estimated Cost: 480 hours for Gaido at $50/hr is $24,000  Porting to iPhone and other mobile platorms  Additional interactions  Additional tours

17. Thanks to Marketing and Admissions: Chris Augustine,Heather Bruntil, Anne Gallucci, Kathrin Havrilla, Shane LaPrade, Shannon McDonough, Alexis Sneff Media Relations: George Tyrell, Mike Pietrowski Information Technology: Tamara Anderson Conference and Events: Mark Sabina Vice President Mary Beth Carey Watchfire: Carl Roth Google: Ben Bayer

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