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- Visit: Google's location-based search engine and try out a few searches that you would find useful - for example, shop for something you purchased recently at a local store and see if you find a better place to have made the purchases, or a place you would not have though of. Relate your experience.
- Do you like the interface to the Google system? What would you change about it?
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- Develop a list of at least three location-aware applications you'd like to see made available in our building. Provide a short description of the usage scenario including the type of people would use the application and the platform they would most likely use.
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- Pick your favorite of the applications you thought about in week 2 and post a detailed description of it on the discussion board (see the top of the schedule page. Make sure to include: the principal users of the applications, an example scenario of the application in use, how the information needed will be collected prior to deployment and for dynamic data in real-time, what are the privacy concerns, how will it scale, etc.
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- Talk to potential users of your application in our department. Create a basic description and questionnaire to gather some impressions/reactions to the features of your app. Share your questions with others by posting them to the app discussion b-board. What did you learn?
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- How would you evaluate your app? Given the results of your informal user survey, what would you want as an evaluation section if you were to write a paper about your app.
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