My first group project

In our ECIP course we were given a task to design and if possible, also develop an application. The app should be a health and exercise related and targeted for people of Oulu. So it should somehow make it easier to people to get exercising. In our group we thought that it’s not necessary to actually move with our app. So we are going to make a feature that will help the user to find also all kinds of “bench sport” events.

Our main goal is to make people move more than usual. You don’t have to actually go jogging or go to the gym to get moving. Moving also consist about things like walking, doing yoga, walking your dog and so on. Even thought we want to get people moving more we want to also encourage those who still are sitting on couches. And that is why we provide a possibility to go watch other people to exercise. That is because watching sports could possibly be the spark which lights up the fire towards exercising. Feeling the victories or highlight performances can be a big motivator for those who doesn’t move yet.

So let me tell more about our application. Our main goal is to get people moving in one way or another. How can be implement this goal? We decided that our application will have two “sides”. One side provides lists of possibilities to get moving and gives the locations of these events to the user. There could be locations of traditional indoor gyms or outside gyms, paths for jogging or walking and so on. The other side will be for the bench potatoes. Our application will note the user when and where there is an ice hockey game for example. To provide more value to our users we are planning to give the links of the relevant web pages to the users. So, if you want to go to the gym you probably need a membership? No problem, our app will lead you to buy one! Want to go watching how others sweat in hockey rink? Just a second! 

After some careful considerations we decided that we can’t actually make this application alive. We are first year students, so we need a little more experience what it comes to programming. Make this kind of application would be too complicated to be actually done. That’s why things like security, software development or testing are not our main priorities on this project. So, we decided that instead of that we will focus more on the design of the app. Like what features it will consist or what the visualization could look like. So we will make a deep project plan and visualize it with Powerpoint so others can have a grasp what our app could look like.