Mission Statement

To encourage participation in casual sporting activities by connecting people and facilitating the organization of such activities.

Overview

As people plan casual sporting activities, one of their main tasks is to locate other people interested in participating at a mutually convenient time. At times, this becomes quite a challenge, since people generally depend on their existing social networks, which may or may not contain the people they're looking for. Additionally, coordinating such games with large groups of people is not a simple task. Our application seeks to improve upon the status quo by making it easier to find people with shared sporting interests, skill level, and compatible scheduling and location preferences.

Team

PickUp was designed at the University of Washington in Autumn 2009, as a term project for the undergraduate HCI course taught by James Fogarty, Morgan Dixon, and Michael Toomim.