Development of the location aware platform on wobini.ch
WOD by Joël Bez

Project Goals

Develop a mobile client for Wobini.ch
Develop the sharing part of Wobini.ch
Write a report about my work

Personal Goals

Practice English / Swiss German
Company internal project
Live in a new City

About Wobini.ch

Internal playground project
Locate yourself
Display location based information

Mobile trends

2.7 billion mobile phone
vs
0.8 billion TV

80% population
has
mobile network

Mobile phone
=
2nd most spread piece
of technology

1 billion web on phone
v.s
1.2 billion standard web

“Biggest growth potencial”

3 Reasons

Better carrier offers
Phones with better technology
Raising possibilities in mobile phone
development

User centered design

Profile personas
Scenarios
Functionalities

4 Personas

web services creator Intensive tracker
web social web social
networks addict networks consumer

Name: Nathaly
Age: 22
Occupation: 3rd year
Student in Psychology

User Experience
Computer 3h a day
Has a blog
Uses her mobile
mostly for SMS

Technical
Owns an iBook
Has ADSL Wlan
Has a standard mobile
phone

Goals / needs
Tell her friends where
she is
Shut down the service
Put a widget on her
blog

Scenario
Is in a great restaurant
Wants to share this
information
Enters her location on
wobini app
Queues the location
for later sending

Wobini summary

Mobile app

Web
Queue Send
Send on
for later queued
wobini
sending locations
Enter
RMS
location
(J2ME
manually
persistent
storage)
J2ME App

Demo

Wobini website

geoRSS Semantic
KML files
feeds information
Wobini Saved
Website locations
Wobini website

Future developments

Wobini website
Web Satellite
Queue Send Send Queue for
Send on locations later
for later queued
wobini live sending
sending locations
Enter
location RMS Select
manually (J2ME GPS
persistent
storage)
Use saved
location
Choose GPS
or Manual
Save Location
location
J2ME App

Conclusion

School way vs. Practical way
Implicit goals
Personal experience

Thank you for your attention.