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 __UTM Smarties __ Hinal Pithia Angelo Macatangay Andrew Dmytrasz Olufeyijimi Tayo-Tiwo (Jimi)     <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">Submitted to Professor Rob Harvie <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">CCT 380 H5-F – Computer Interaction and Communication <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">Thursday, May 19th, 2011. ** __<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">Primary and Secondary Roles __ ** <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">The majority of the primary and secondary roles were allocated based on each group member’s strengths. This allows us to utilize each individual’s skills to a high level of productivity which we propose will ensure effectiveness as well as efficiency. ** // <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">Hinal // ** <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">Hinal is a Digital Enterprise Management specialist student and through this program she has been able to develop skills in design, technology, management, marketing and communications. On the side, Hinal has develop management skills through her experience has President of UTM’s business club, DECA. Having to work with and manage 5 executives, 4 associates and 98 members she has mature the skills of time management, teamwork and effective communication. Using these skill, she will be able to assist the team in project management, organization of the final product, editing as well as presenting. ** // <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">Angelo // ** <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">Angelo is a Digital Enterprise Management specialist and Professional Writing and Communication student. He is interested in the marketing, management and communications aspect of his studies where he has gained experience with various marketing, e-business and promotion strategies. He can contribute by business-savvy thinking to the group to ensure that a product that meets consumer needs while ensuring profitability is created. He also can use his design skills through various design courses at Sheridan. He is able to use Adobe Illustrator program to help us with the prototype of our future product. He also has work experience as a current sales manager at Sears. He is able to contribute his time management and teamwork skills when working with the group for this task. ** // <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">Andrew // ** <span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif;">Andrew is currently pursuing a major in History with a minor in Professional Writing and Communication. With this he has a different view on most topics than the rest of the group. With his history background he is able to look at how past events have helped shape the world we have now, and the ways in which it is continually changing. With Andrew’s different areas of studies, he has been able to develop very different but equally important strengths of writing, web design and research. For the purposes of this project Andrew will be using his strengths to be looking into primary and secondary data for information regarding our application. In addition he will contribute to designing a webpage if required for our final presentation. <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;"> ** // <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">Jimi // ** <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">Jimi is pursuing a Political Science and CCIT double major. He is interested in the integration of culture and technology. He is also interested in politics and how the law operates with the government. My contribution to this group effort would involve looking at the cultural impact of our concept. Our concept is intended to make things easier for the user, but Jimi will also be looking at what other functions or effects that our concept generates. He will be looking at what kind of potential legal concerns that may arise with our product. Modern technology is often criticized for its handling of the privacy of its users and we would try to address this issue in regards to our product. His familiarity with these issues will allow us to create a product that does not infringe on the privacy of its users and does not violate any of their rights. ** __<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">Project Charter __ ** <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">Since our class meets twice a week and the pace of submission of assignments is fairly rapid, we have to utilize our time to the best of our capabilities. Many of our group members have other courses they are enrolled in for the current semester, have part time jobs as well as participate in extra-curricular activities. This makes it extremely difficult to continuously meet face-to-face for daily meetings or whenever group collaboration is required. Thus, we have collectively decided to utilize the Internet to its fullest capabilities. We have done this by already having created a Wikispace for our group. All group members are able to post content, edit content and interact on this page using real time. We also plan on using e-mail as a back up and Skype to conduct simultaneous meetings. In addition, we will utilize the lab time as the timing proves to be very convenient for all of our group members. <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">Our collective expectation is that we provide an insightful deliverable by the end of this course. All group members have a desire to receive a good final mark and we will work towards this by ensuring that all our work is submitted on time; this includes meeting internal group deadlines to ensure we leave time to edit the final document, and assure to deliver a satisfying output. Also, we expect to gain further knowledge about the field while completing our project. As a team, everyone is expected to co-operate and use his or her specific skills and talents for this task. Everyone needs to support each other to ensure that our objective for this task is met. Most importantly, we will challenge ourselves to produce the best possible outcome we can. ** __<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">Member contribution __ ** <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;"> For this assignment, as a group we first brainstormed the different needs in our society and what the types of systems that required a re-design. From that we narrowed our potential system down to one: a parking application for UTM. After we had the concept in mind, we decided to allocate the different portions of this assignment to each member. Based on what each member was interested in and held a significant knowledge base in, we were able to assign certain parts. One member offered to take the initiative to put the final document together after receiving every member’s parts and edit the final draft. ** __<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">Purpose of our system __ ** <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">The system we have chosen to create is an application that can be used on all smartphone and android platforms which allows one to quickly and easily locate a vacant parking spot at UTM. We have noticed through monitoring and self experience that to find a parking spot that is not in use at UTM’s parking lots is a difficult task and wastes a significant amount of time. Our application will utilize a GPS tracking system for all students, faculty, staff and visitors to easily indicate through the system where they are and which parking spot is either taken or vacant. In addition, this application will provide a useful feature for those who constantly cannot recall where they have parked. By using the GPS tracking system to indicate they have parked, the application will then store that information in its system and will provide walking directions back to the car from any location on the UTM campus. Another feature provided is a payment system through the application. ** __<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">The types of users and description of some of their goals __ ** <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">The type of users for this application will be students and faculty members, as well as any visitors who drive to the campus. This includes current students and faculty throughout the years who drive as well as occasional drivers. The main goal of the application will be to save time in locating an empty spot at any parking lot on campus. Some of the secondary goals of the application will be to help people be able to locate their vehicle again when they are returning. As well as a mobile payment option for people so they do not have to walk over to a ticket booth and back to their car again. Overall, every user’s goal is to ensure that minimal steps are taken to receive their outcome which is exactly what the system is in place to do. ** __<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">A similar system in place __ ** <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">There are current technologies that are active and are available with similar objective of creating a parking management system. However, none of them specifically target the University of Toronto at Mississauga community. Busy areas such as the Yorkdale mall currently utilize a parking system promoting convenience for its customers for parking. <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">A current parking management system is available at the Yorkdale shopping centre (also available in other busy parking centres such as York University). This parking management system is available through Yorkdale’s official website and on the actual parking centre at Yorkdale. Yorkdale mall also provides a parking management system within its parking centre. Customers are able to see which parking spots are vacant within the mall’s parking lots. These indicators are located in the entrance of each parking lot and levels at the parking centre. With this on-site information, they distribute this information every 15 minutes through the official and mobile website. The official Yorkdale mall website uses a map to show its consumers parking availability in their parking centre. The website lists which areas of the parking centre have an available parking spot. It also lists where a customer will have difficulties finding a place to park. <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">One of the changes that we propose to make is to create a more convenient parking management system that will target the students at University of Toronto at Mississauga. Yorkdale’s parking management system responds slowly because of its 15 minute delay. There is no instantaneous retrieval of parking information offered with both its official and mobile websites. Retrieval of parking information needs instantaneous response since many consumers are constantly thinking where to park when coming in to a parking lot. A new parking management system would allow drivers to retrieve information faster to find out where to park rather than guessing if the information is accurate. We would need to create a mobile application that would allow consumers to retrieve instantaneous parking information ensuring that they receive accurate information about the parking spaces available within the campus of University of Toronto at Mississauga. <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;"> ** __<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">Works Cited __ ** <span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif;">Yorkdale Shopping Centre. "Parking ‹ Yorkdale Shopping Centre – Fashion, Services, & More › Toronto, Ontario." //<span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif;">Shopping in Toronto at Yorkdale Shopping Centre, Fashion and Much More ‹ Yorkdale Shopping Centre – Fashion, Services, & More › Toronto, Ontario //<span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria,serif;">. Web. 16 May 2011. <http://www.yorkdale.com/plan-your-visit/parking>. <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">
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 * __Group member information__ **
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">Hinal Pithia – h.pithia@gmail.com
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">Angelo Macatangay – angelomacatangay@hotmail.com
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">Andrew Dmytrasz – andrew.dmytrasz@utoronto.ca
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif;">Olufeyijimi Tayo-Tiwo (Jimi)– tayotiwojay06@yahoo.ca