Digital Villages Discoverable: Conceptualizing, Designing, and Implementing the User-Interface of a Crowd-Sourced, Media-Upload,IOS application

School Name

Governor's School for Science & Mathematics

Grade Level

12th Grade

Presentation Topic

Computer Science

Presentation Type

Mentored

Mentor

Mentor: Simon Scherr, Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering

Abstract

A continuous migration trend, especially by the younger generation, to urban areas because of ease access to services and resources is becoming an increasing problem for the rural areas of Germany in terms of both attractiveness and infrastructural demand. The motivation of the “Digital Villages: Discoverable” project was to provide a supplemental, crowd-sourced application to an already existing project, “Digital Villages” aims to reverse the aforementioned trend and provide assistance for those affected by ways of “digitization.” In an effort to promote inter-community relationships and historical importance of some of these rural areas, the ideas of “Digital Villages: Discoverable” was created. In the span of five and a half weeks, a prototype of an iOS user-interface for an app was conceptualized, designed, and the initial steps of programming were implemented in XCode. The user-interface prototype provided the basic functionality of taking/selecting, resizing, and uploading photos through a network transfer connected to the back-end and a complete view-controller framework storyboard. Future work includes completing the interface and fully connecting it to the back-end services. Following this, necessary testing of the finished app with a real user-base to identify and improve any run-time problems and collect improvement feedback should be executed.

Location

Wall 119

Start Date

3-25-2017 9:30 AM

Presentation Format

Oral and Written

Group Project

No

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Mar 25th, 9:30 AM

Digital Villages Discoverable: Conceptualizing, Designing, and Implementing the User-Interface of a Crowd-Sourced, Media-Upload,IOS application

Wall 119

A continuous migration trend, especially by the younger generation, to urban areas because of ease access to services and resources is becoming an increasing problem for the rural areas of Germany in terms of both attractiveness and infrastructural demand. The motivation of the “Digital Villages: Discoverable” project was to provide a supplemental, crowd-sourced application to an already existing project, “Digital Villages” aims to reverse the aforementioned trend and provide assistance for those affected by ways of “digitization.” In an effort to promote inter-community relationships and historical importance of some of these rural areas, the ideas of “Digital Villages: Discoverable” was created. In the span of five and a half weeks, a prototype of an iOS user-interface for an app was conceptualized, designed, and the initial steps of programming were implemented in XCode. The user-interface prototype provided the basic functionality of taking/selecting, resizing, and uploading photos through a network transfer connected to the back-end and a complete view-controller framework storyboard. Future work includes completing the interface and fully connecting it to the back-end services. Following this, necessary testing of the finished app with a real user-base to identify and improve any run-time problems and collect improvement feedback should be executed.