The document describes a proposed mobile app called WUK that would provide volunteer opportunities to teens. The app would use a phone's location awareness and availability to deliver just-in-time volunteer opportunities in response to crises. It was inspired by Hurricane Sandy and the desire to help but not knowing how. The app would allow users to customize profiles, browse and select opportunities, and receive alerts. It aims to target teens and volunteers and would be better than competitors by providing location-based opportunities and alerts for crisis-related volunteering. Survey results found interest in an app that helps users know how and where to volunteer.

1. Chloe Nunez,
Martha Willey,
Gabriela Calcano,
Manene Bamba

2. WHAT IS THE APP?
 Teens responding to crises !
 An Android app
 Uses the features of a mobile phone:
 Always available
 Always on
 Location aware
 Delivers
just-in-time, location-aware
volunteer opportunities in the community

3. WHY DID WE THINK OF IT?
 Hurricane Sandy affected many of our friends
 We could have helped
 We did not know how, what, where, or when to
volunteer
Wake Up to the needs of your community !

4. WHAT ARE THE FEATURES OF THE APP?
 Customize your profile:
 volunteer type preferences, alert frequency,
contacts, etc.
 Browse volunteer opportunities
 Select opportunities
 put them in your bucket list !
 Share your selected opportunities
 View past opportunities
 Use current location, or entered location
 Use current time, or entered time

5. WHO IS OUR TARGET AUDIENCE?
 Teens
 Volunteers
 Do-Gooders
 Anyone interested in helping

6. COMPETITORS/ SIMILAR APPS?
App Name Fr Nearby Custom Jawdropping Save for Connect / Alerts
ee Opportunit Search Motivational later Share
ies Reasons to get
Involved
WUK Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
The Y N Y N Y Y N
Extraordinaries
Opp-Guide to Y Y N N N N N
Community
Service
Reward Y N N N N Y N
Volunteers
SnapImpact Y Y N N N Y N
All for Good Y Y Y N N Y N
VoluneerMatch Y Y Y N N Y N
niceSERVE Y Y Y N N Y N

7. WHY WE ARE BETTER
 Geo-location which tells users where the
organization they want to attend
 No other app specifically targets teens
 Our app is crisis related so we
will receive emergency alerts
 Our app provides alerts/notifications when new
opportunities are available

8. SURVEY RESULTS 1
 Survey results show that more people would respond to
problems in their community if they knew how and
where to get started. More people said They would be
eager to help if they knew how.

9. SURVEY RESULTS II
 We received 41 responses to our survey. 88% of
the people aid they would be interested in our app
and would even help us test it out.

10. DATA FLOW
User Preferences: • Location
• Contacts • GPS
• Volunteering type • User entered
• Alert frequency • Time
• Location • Phone time
• Bucket list • User entered
filter filter
Volunteering Opportunities

11. DATABASE (FUSION TABLES)
Phone: WUK App
Phone DB
controls
Local Organizations:
• ASPCA
• NYHUD
• Red Cross
Volunteer Opportunities
Google
Fusion
Tables

12. SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE
This is what our app needs to interact with to give off
and receive data:
 Wifi
 Calendar
 Clocks
 Network Location
 GPS location

13. ECO-SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE
Our app will also communicate with outside sources
to receive information from sites and places as to
where new opportunities are available. This makes
just-in-time opportunities. Our app will connect with
places such as these:
 Hyper-local news
 Local organizations
 churches, YMCA, etc.
 Crisis management organizations:
 NYC cares, Red Cross, etc.

14. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
We appreciate it.
Have you been WUKed today ?