mobile date: a dating application for mobile phones
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Mobile Date: A Dating Application For Mobile Phones. Mark Mucha and Juan Carcheri EEL-6788 Advanced Topics in Wireless Networks Spring 2010. Outline. Introduction Related Works Goals/Objectives System Architecture Demo Future Work Conclusion. Introduction. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Mobile Date: A Dating Application For Mobile Phones
Mark Mucha and Juan CarcheriEEL-6788 Advanced Topics in Wireless Networks
Spring 2010
Outline
• Introduction• Related Works• Goals/Objectives• System Architecture• Demo• Future Work• Conclusion
Introduction
• Mobile Date provides a mobile system that can be used to track a user’s position in support of dating based on location proximity.
• UCF campus specialization
MatchMobile
• A mobile service rolled out by Match.com• Allows users to create profiles to be
viewed by other users.• Free to register ( create and view profiles
only ) • In order to communicate with others
members, you must become a paying subscriber• Anywhere from $17.99 to $34.99 per
month
MeetMoi
• Location based mobile dating application.• Updates your location on real-time.• User can log in to view pictures and profiles
of nearby matches.• When a match is nearby, you get an alert on
your phone.• Contacting others does cost money.
ZOGO
• Members are connected with anonymous text and phones calls on their mobile phones.
• Provides instant connection between members.• Includes a “prowling” feature.
• Lets other know what neighborhood they’re in and that they’re seeking to meet up with other like-minded individuals
• Completely free mobile dating service.
Goals/Objectives
• Aims to build on certain features from the related systems previously mentioned• Create profiles, view other user information, etc.
• Use both user’s GPS location to derive a convenient location to meet up for a date.
• Supply a numerical rating system for dating locations.• Current target audience is UCF students, providing
campus specialization
Platform Selection
• Built on the iPhone OS• Written in Objective-C• Development Environment – Xcode 3.14• iPhone Simulator.
Server Side Processing
• PostgreSQL• Database software, used for dating information storage
• PHP• General purpose scripting language to provide
interaction with server applications
• Apache web server• XML
• ASCII format of data exported from the PostgreSQL database
System Requirements
• Localized to the UCF campus and nearby areas.• Incorporate user feedback with dating location
ratings and reviews.• Utilize GPS information to derive and display
nearby profiles. • Server compiles and stores user profile data.
User Activities
GUI
Create Profile
Contribute Information
Request Data
Top Level Design
Tab Control
Mobile Date App Delegate
Browse Users Control
ProfileControl
Browse Locations Control
Location Manager
HTTP (Apache)
PHP(Apache)
Postgresql
Functionality
• Enables users to create profiles• Name• Picture • Height in inches• Sex• Hair Color• Eye Color• Location• E-Mail
• Search others user’s profiles – Browsing• Suggest dating locations to both users meeting up.
Data Flow
Apache Web Server PHP
Mobile Date Client App
Request
PostgreSQL
Database
Contribution
GUI
GUI
Database Layout
Challenges
• Learning curve on Objective-C• Getting familiar with iPhone development tools
such as Xcode.
Demo
Anonymous Flirting
• Allow users to click a flirt button, saving the current location to the database with a timestamp
• Users can browse from their location history to see if someone flirted/had a crush with them (by reading a description of the person described by the user that started the flirt)
• If users are around each other frequently, the possible matches can be narrowed down• Identity hidden until the initiating user allows identity to be
known
Future Work
• Provide a built in instant messaging system with the client application.
• Possibly look into providing real time geo-location processing.• Will entail implementing a map-matching scheme for
providing accurate location processing.
• Proximity dating using Bluetooth technology• Instantly flirt with and find a date within a short range.
Conclusion
• Implementation of a functioning mobile date application specialized for UCF students.
• More users can provide ratings with greater validity and more options for dates.
• Future work can make this a marketable product.