Mobile Community Events
The Mobile Community Events software examines how to make community activities more engaging. Designed as a cross-platform website oriented to mobile devices, the site includes an easy to navigate daily list of events where users can click through to more details about each event and get directions to the event. Users can search events by category, date & time, and physical distance from the user - returning both list and map-based views of the events. Users can post comments and photos.
Iterative trials of the software were done at the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts and First Night State College.
Collaborators:
John M. Carroll, Honglu Du, Blaine Hoffman, Michael Horning, Harold Robinson, Mary Beth Rosson, Xiaoyan Xie
References:
Ganoe, C.H., Robinson, H.R., Horning, M.A., Xie, X. and Carroll, J.M. (2010) Mobile Awareness and Participation in Community-Oriented Activities, 1st Annual Conference on Computing for Geospatial Research and Application (COM.Geo 2010) (Washington D.C., 21-23 June 2010).
Carroll, J.M. and Ganoe, C.H. (2008) Supporting Community With Location-Sensitive Mobile Applications. chapter in Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, IGI Global.
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