SMak
Group members
- Danica Chang
- Andrew Farrell
- Chris Fletcher
Problem statement
When people have errands to run or vacations to plan, they typically care about what they want to do but not what order they want to do it in. A hypothetical example is when someone has a day of errands to run before the kids need to be picked up from school. Errands may include buying groceries at a supermarket, taking clothes to the dry cleaner and getting the car repaired.
Our interface, SMak for Schedule MAKer, would help this user plan his/her trip by creating a step-by-step plan that the user could follow. For the errand example, SMak will solve a traveling salesmen problem for the supermarket, dry cleaners, and car repair shop. In addition SMak will accommodate different restrictions such as
- the kids needing to get picked up at a certain time in the day
- the car repair stop taking a set amount of time, that the repair shop has told the user about ahead of time
- the groceries needing to get home quickly to avoid dairy product spoilage