An Android app called Pick Me Up allows drivers and passengers going on short journeys to connect for carpooling. The app uses social media integration and geolocation to make carpooling more usable and trustworthy. Drivers can search for passengers going in their direction within a specified radius based on distance or money. Passengers get notified when selected by a driver. User testing found people liked features like social login, quick profiles, and location autocomplete while suggestions included alternative views, easier search changes, and payment integration.

1. Pick Me Up
TEAM 16:
- Nitin Jain
- Sameera Bandhakavi
- Vimarsh Karbhari

2. Why …?

3. Why Pick Me Up ?
Almost every day, every hour, thousands of vehicles cross
hundreds of miles from various locations without realizing
the fact that many of them follow the same route at the
same time and can accompany people and earn some money,
reducing their cost of travel…

4. Why…?
Wouldn’t it be great, if there was an App such that when
people have 1-2 or more seats vacant they could use it for
real-time car-pooling and earn some money…
Less traffic, less pollution, save expenses…

5. Why…?
What if you could see that person (whom you choose to Pick
Up) even before you actually meet him…?
Wouldn’t it help you decide whether you should go ahead
with the choice or choose another person…?
Why not use the power of Social Media…?

6. Project Objective

7. What is Pick Me Up ?
An Android based Mobile Application that can be used for real time
carpooling…
Objective:
To serve all those users who are going on short journeys, have some seats
vacant and are willing to Pick and Drop people for some money.
To use the power of social media and geo-location and make an
application in the car-pooling domain, more usable and trustworthy.

10. System Design and
Development

11. Type of Users:

12. Driver Passenger
• Start Location • Start Location
• Start Time of Journey • Start Time
• Destination Location • Destination Location
• Pickup within (range in miles) : • Number of People
Driver specifies the distance around Number of people to be Picked up by
him in which to find the Passengers. the driver.
• Amount willing to pay per person
• Search by(distance or money):
• Contact Number
Give me best results based on how far
the passengers are from me within
specified radius
OR
based on money the passengers are
willing to pay in the specified radius.
• Contact Number

13. Initial Prototype:

15. Final User Interface:
(Passenger)

16. (Driver)

17. System Functionality
and Features

18. 1. Start to end Social Media
Integration
• Log – In with Facebook
• Extract the Facebook Profile
Picture , Facebook name and Id of
User (Driver or Passenger)
• Driver can see the Facebook
Picture of Passenger in the query
results

20. 2. Auto-Complete using Google Places
API
• Helps the user to enter the Start and End location without incurring the
short term Memory Load to remember or completely type it.
• Prevents Errors.
• Server-side validation for incorrect source and destination addresses.

21. 3. Validation to prevent Errors

22. 4. Quick summary of the Passenger
• Helps the Driver to stay on the
Map and get a brief overview
about an available choice of
Passenger.
• Driver can check all the available
options staying on the same
screen.

23. 5. Notification to the Passenger
• When the Driver selects a Passenger to Pick Up, the Passenger gets a
text message.
• This text message has a unique code, which is used for proper validation
among Driver and the Passenger.

24. Passenger Driver

25. Result and User
Evaluation:

26. J. Nielsen has shown that tests
achieved with 5 users allow to
raise at least 80% of the usability
problems…

27. Things they Liked…
• Log-in with Facebook – no need to add another username and password to
an already existing long list.
• Social Media Integration – “it feels like the App is talking to us”
• Autocomplete: Recognition better than Recall
• Trust: can see the Passenger’s picture before sending an invitation
• Quick Summary and overview of Passenger results on click on a single
screen.
• Error prevention and input validation.
• Aesthetic Appeal and color contrast of the UI.

28. Things that could be improved and Future
Work…
• Provide alternative ways of viewing the Passenger results eg. List
view
• Allow change of search criteria easily on the Map without going back.
• We wish to implement Google push notifications for exchange of
notifications between Driver and Passenger as it is a better method
of communication.
• Integrate with online money transfer services like Paypal for
payment.

29. DEMO

30. Q&A

31. Thank You for listening…