Mobile internet is quickly becoming the internet. And in this new world of mobile, the mobile app is king.
On April 2, 2013 students at the School of Information Management gathered to showcase their mobile app concepts at SIM鈥檚 Mobile App Concept Design Competition. The competition was organized by Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd and was part of the INFO 5590: Information Management Systems course.
As part of this course, students were asked to work in teams of three-to-four to develop a novel mobile application that can help organizations to better deliver information and services to their end users.聽 Students had to research the information needs of their respective organizations and come up with an app to address those needs.
On the day of the competition, the teams gathered in Dal鈥檚 interactive learning studio located in the Killam Library, also known as LINC 鈥 Learning Incubator & Networking Centre (LINC) to present their mobile app concepts. Their apps were evaluated by judges with expertise in mobile app and enterprise development, information management and user interface design, including:
- Dr. Sujit Sur, Faculty of Management, 新加坡六合彩开奖直播
- Dr. Keith Lawson, Faculty of Management, 新加坡六合彩开奖直播
- Dr. Derek Reilly, Faculty of Computer Science, 新加坡六合彩开奖直播
- Dr. Bonnie MacKay,聽 Faculty of Computer Science, 新加坡六合彩开奖直播
- Lori McCay-Peet, ID PhD candidate, 新加坡六合彩开奖直播
- Cam McDonald, Purchext
Each judge played the role of an 鈥渋nvestor鈥 with a hypothetical $1 million to invest.聽 They could invest the entire amount in one idea or split it among a few of their favorites. At the end of the event, the top three apps (determined by the amount of 鈥渉ypothetical鈥 funds they have attracted) received prizes.
The apps featured in the competition ranged from the imaginative to the practical including leisure apps for hikers in HRM and Nova Scotia to apps for managing the balance on a Dal student card and one that helps students to navigate through campus buildings. There were also apps for gym users, parents looking for playgrounds for their kids, night sky lovers, tourists wanting to track their checked-in luggage, and readers looking for the next best seller book to read.
The three winning teams were:
- 1st place 鈥 Readable PDF (Alan Chorney, Lisa Gauthier, Kevin Hartford, Leah Rae)
- 2nd Place 鈥 Go Hiking NS (Matthew Clarke, Jordan Cook, Roger Gillis, Katie Olthuis)
- 3rd Place 鈥 QuickScript (Carolyn Bentzen, Ryan Dyck, Michael Groenendyk, Darrell Yates)
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