This will be our temporary home to showcase the development of our Android 2.0 application. This application is being developed for Intel’s Developer Forum this Fall at which a select group of schools will be presenting forward thinking projects. At Georgia Tech there are two teams of three students with each team developing an independent project over the summer semester. At the end of the semester, the “best” project will continue to be developed during August and the first half of September in preparation for presentation.

My team has chosen to develop a neighborhood relationship application to be used to form relationships between neighbors. More often than not neighbors know very little about each other and we feel it shouldn’t be this way. Rather than be a collection of houses, we feel a neighborhood should be a collection of people. Sure, you aren’t going to want to spend every free moment with your neighbors, but when you are looking for a group activity or help, we hope that our application would be able to help speed things up.

To introduce the design prompt, Professor Michael Nitsche of Georgia Tech provided a short video clip explaining the design focus and target audience.

Next up, John and Chris give a short presentation showcasing their design idea, a short walk-through of the preliminary UI concepts, and elaborate on the target audience and goals.