Campus assistant application on an Android platform

Author

Cardei, Mihaela ; Zankina, Iana ; Cardei, I. ; Raviv, Dan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Florida Atlantic Univ., Boca Raton, FL, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

4-7 April 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

College campuses can be large, confusing, and intimidating for new students and visitors. Finding the campus may be easy using a GPS unit or Google Maps directions, but this changes when you are actually on the campus. There is no service that provides directional assistance within the campus itself. This paper presents the architecture and design specifications for a campus assistant application on an Android platform. Scenarios are illustrated for the Florida Atlantic University - Boca Raton campus.

Keywords

Linux; cartography; educational administrative data processing; educational institutions; human computer interaction; mobile computing; search engines; touch sensitive screens; user interfaces; Android platform; Boca Raton campus; Florida Atlantic University; GPS unit; Google Maps directions; Linux-based operating system; campus assistant; campus assistant application; campus map editor; touchscreen mobile devices; ubiquitous computing; Buildings; Educational institutions; Google; Navigation; Servers; Smart phones; XML; Android platform; Google map; campus assistant; campus map editor; ubiquitous computing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Southeastcon, 2013 Proceedings of IEEE

Conference_Location

Jacksonville, FL

ISSN

1091-0050

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0052-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SECON.2013.6567518

Filename

6567518