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Proposer: Pito Salas
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Product name: Campus GPS
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Tweet length summary of project: Human readable, non-GPS, directions between locations on a campus
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Product Summary: For any particular ‘campus’ there are buildings, floors, landmarks, parking lots, offices. Visitors to the campus need directions as simple as how do I get from the parking lot to the CEOs office. Or how do I get from T-Lot to Pito’s office. This system will generate such directions initially in English and display or text them to a recipient.
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As an example:
“…After you park, look for a big circular building that looks like a top hat. Walk towards it, passing it on the right. When you get to the corner (with the stop sign) you will see a big lawn with a glass and green building behind it. Walk towards that building and pass it on the right. You will get to a smaller green lawn. Right ahead you will see a low slung concrete building with a set of concrete stairs going into it. Walk there and up those stairs and you have arrived at Feldberg.”
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Implementation note: A possible technique is to organize a set of landmarks by name, with arcs connecting the ones that can be reached combined with a sentnece that would represent that part of the directions.
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Elevator pitch: Don’t you always get lost finding an office, a conference room or a building on a new large campus? This product will generate fully readable, customizable directions that can be texted or emailed to a visitor.
- Describe the customer(s):
- A new visitor to a campus of any kind, but especially a largish one. It does not have to be a college, it could be a corporate or governmental.
- Someone who is trying to be helpful to a new visitor coming to such a campus
- The ‘management’ of such a campus who wants to provide a generally useful resource on their web site to supplement the generally useless maps that are incomplete and not detailed enough.
- Describe what “jobs” the product will do for the customer:
- Generate reliable directions for the visitor to use to find where they are going
- Generate reliable directions for the occupant trying to direct someone
- Produce a really useful feature for the web site of the ‘management’
- Customer Pains/Gains: [describe what problems the product will eliminate for the customer]
- I get lost finding a location
- I have to struggle to generate useful directions to give a visitor