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Design 3 is an Android smartphone app. Having our software run on a phone gives the advantages of portability and a touch screen interface. Disadvantages are that fewer people have smartphones than have laptops, and we lose a lot of screen real estate and alternate input methods (like keyboard input).

Storyboard

Andrew pulls out his Android phone as he walks toward his next class and opens the VoiceComposer app. He is greeted with a large button with a picture of a microphone button.


He pushes it, and is prompted to count off a measure and then start singing.


As he counts off four beats ("one, two, three, four", or just snapping his fingers), a bar appears on the screen that starts pulsing at the tempo he specified. Measure bars Bar lines start scrolling past at every fourth beat. (If he'd counted off to some other number, they would be scrolling past with different frequency.)

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