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- In GR3, users complained that the notion of LocaShare is not clear, thus, in the last design, we tried to match users mental model by incorporating a list of LocaShares and classify them into different levels.
- The Overview page has tabs for three levels of sharing, this gives user more freedom to browse only the share they are interested in.
Implementation:
LocaShare is a web-based mobile application Wiki Markup Wiki Markup application that can be used across a wide-range of mobile browsers. The server-side code is written in PHP, while the client-side code is written in Javascript/AJAX/jQuery mobile. We used Google Maps API and a jQuery plugin called addresspicker \[1\] to incorporate maps in the application. The application uses a Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework that was taught in the 6.831 course. Finally, we used a MySQL database to store data. We used real data from mobile experiments performed by a research group at CSAIL in our system. This helped us build realistic and meaningful scenarios for the user studies.
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