LiveSmart-CAMPUS is a mobile application envisioned for SUPSI campus community (students and collaborators) and visitors which allows users to obtain location based, calendar and time based, and users interests’ based information. The application allows people to enhance their experience when living the campus, and allows them to efficiently and smoothly get involved in the Campus life from both a social and a logistic point of view. The application allows users to receive information about Campus life (e.g., courses calendar and contents, campus facilities and events etc.) efficiently, without the need to search or ask for it. The information received is customized, based on users' interests.
Profile interface. The login interface allows each user to login on the university web environment. The login is compulsory, allowing the app usage also to external visitors. Each logged user is associated with a role, according to their position within the university, and she/he is accordingly provided with a different set of permissions. Additionally, each logged user is associated to some specific targets (i.e., the belonging class or group target, the courses she/is registered to), allowing a persistent association of interests which the user will be able to edit successively, through the application itself.
Topics of interest. The user might specify his/her topics of interest (ToI), in order to receive related messages. The ToIs have a hierarchical structure and the corpus of topics has a dynamical evolution, in accordance to the actual interests and necessity of the campus population. The topics are divided in three main categories:
Courses: this includes enrollment information of each student (e.g., enrollment faculty, present attended semester, present enrolled courses, belonging class) and activities of each lecturer (e.g., the courses held, the associated classes). All the topics included in this category are related to the academic curricula, offers and schedules.
Campus: this includes all the topics related to the life within the campus (e.g., restaurants, gym, kindergarten, library, transportation). Notification examples are: the menu of the day at the campus restaurant, or the new course available at the Campus - gym, or the notification about the imminent bus arrival at the Campus bus stop.
Events: this includes temporary events, competitions, talks and brainstorming meetings organized from the campus users. Exploiting the topics of this category, users can get informed and get involved with the social life of the campus.
The ToIs are accessible both in a hierarchical representation and in a direct search interface. The evolution dynamism of the topic population is constantly managed: new topics are included and not interesting ones are removed from the hierarchy, ensuring responsiveness to user's requests and necessity with time.
Feeds. When a user specifies a ToI, she/he will receive notifications related to that topic. The complete list of notification contents is visible on the My Feeds interface, allowing the user to disable the notification mechanism and to still be able to access the personal list of potential interesting information. Feeds are ordered by notification arrival time and related time schedule, and are associated with an expiration time and with an urgency ranking value, in order to always visualize urgent feeds first (i.e., information about a lesson which is about to start).
Notification. The app integrates a smart information delivery strategy: each user receives asynchronous notification messages about services related to the specified ToIs. Notifications are delivered according to the position of the user (i.e., users receive the daily menu when moving in the proximity of the restaurant), according to a time schedule (i.e., approaching an event start time) or when the user reaches the Campus.
Profile interface. The login interface allows each user to login on the university web environment. The login is compulsory, allowing the app usage also to external visitors. Each logged user is associated with a role, according to their position within the university, and she/he is accordingly provided with a different set of permissions. Additionally, each logged user is associated to some specific targets (i.e., the belonging class or group target, the courses she/is registered to), allowing a persistent association of interests which the user will be able to edit successively, through the application itself.
Topics of interest. The user might specify his/her topics of interest (ToI), in order to receive related messages. The ToIs have a hierarchical structure and the corpus of topics has a dynamical evolution, in accordance to the actual interests and necessity of the campus population. The topics are divided in three main categories:
Courses: this includes enrollment information of each student (e.g., enrollment faculty, present attended semester, present enrolled courses, belonging class) and activities of each lecturer (e.g., the courses held, the associated classes). All the topics included in this category are related to the academic curricula, offers and schedules.
Campus: this includes all the topics related to the life within the campus (e.g., restaurants, gym, kindergarten, library, transportation). Notification examples are: the menu of the day at the campus restaurant, or the new course available at the Campus - gym, or the notification about the imminent bus arrival at the Campus bus stop.
Events: this includes temporary events, competitions, talks and brainstorming meetings organized from the campus users. Exploiting the topics of this category, users can get informed and get involved with the social life of the campus.
The ToIs are accessible both in a hierarchical representation and in a direct search interface. The evolution dynamism of the topic population is constantly managed: new topics are included and not interesting ones are removed from the hierarchy, ensuring responsiveness to user's requests and necessity with time.
Feeds. When a user specifies a ToI, she/he will receive notifications related to that topic. The complete list of notification contents is visible on the My Feeds interface, allowing the user to disable the notification mechanism and to still be able to access the personal list of potential interesting information. Feeds are ordered by notification arrival time and related time schedule, and are associated with an expiration time and with an urgency ranking value, in order to always visualize urgent feeds first (i.e., information about a lesson which is about to start).
Notification. The app integrates a smart information delivery strategy: each user receives asynchronous notification messages about services related to the specified ToIs. Notifications are delivered according to the position of the user (i.e., users receive the daily menu when moving in the proximity of the restaurant), according to a time schedule (i.e., approaching an event start time) or when the user reaches the Campus.
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