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Jitney Drivers + DIY

 

We chose to build a mobile interface for a DIY application for Jitney drivers since it logically seemed like the most useful space out of the choices provided. Below is the table we used to compare all our choices.

 

  Elderly Mall Walker Baby Sitter Jitney Driver
Community Meeting
x
x
x
DIY
x
x
v
Cooking
x
x
x

 

We felt that Elderly Mall Walkers using a mobile application would not be very common and hence may not have a market. Also baby sitters would be at a residence which probably will have access to a computer, therefore information retrival from a mobile device did not seem strictly necessary. In the case of 'cooking', we again reasoned that the user would be close to a computer and may most likely want to take a look at a cooking website and not want to use a mobile device to look up information.

Since a DIY to repair his vehicle in case it broke down seemed like something that would be very useful to a jitney driver we decided to work on this mobile application.

 

BID 2009 . Human-Computer Interaction Institute . Carnegie Mellon University