Since I created my project model I kept thinking how I can connect all the elements and create a mobile phone application. It wasn’t an easy task as there has been a lot of amazing applications already invented that have similar elements incorporated in them and I want mine to be different. Here are my 2 new ideas:

1. A mobile learning application that would teach users about birds in the area that they are currently in. It would display a list of birds that are known to live in the area that the user is currently in after the location is identified by GPS. When the user clicks on 1 of the birds on the list, information like images and facts will be displayed. There would also be a “play the song” button available to let the user heard what the birds sounds like. There would be a ” Seen it” button, which the use will have to click on when they saw this bird.

Each time the user clicks on that button it creates a record in the database that will save information such as: what bird at what time and date was seen where. This data then will be shown on an online map and can be used as statistics for things like: science experiments, find out how many people and where in the world use advanced mobile phones, bird tracking, people can go to places where birds that they are interested in were seen, to determine whether migration of birds has changed due to global warming etc.

2.This was a similar type of idea but nothing to do with birds or animals. This would be an application that would collect data for location areas by people using it. A person would have a profile with their details such as age, gender, interests, hobbies but to avoid privacy issues there would not be any real names or credit card details involved. A user can create their user name and it can be anything they want as long as its not already taken.

Whenever a user enters a different area, the app will record the time and date. It will also add user’s interests and details to the area’s data. When the user exits that area, it will calculate how much time the user spent in that area. By collecting all this data from different people who use this application an online map would be generated like in idea 1.

A list of user interests, age ranges and genders will be used as keywords to show different maps with relevant information. For example, if a user clicks on “swimming” it will show all areas that are most frequently visited for a sufficient period of time by users of the app with swimming interest in their profile settings. This information then can be used to how many people use advanced mobile phones i what areas, what areas might be of interest to the user with the same interest as the users that have helped create the map with their data, to show areas of the world with more male population (or males who love gadgets!).

So the general idea of both of these ideas is automatic collection of data from application use, which can then be used for another applicatiopn or purpose. I decided that I like the second idea better and it will appeal to a higher number of people and not just bird lovers. I will now need to do some more research and decide what exactly my application will be, what data it will collect and how the data then will be used. I was thinking of may be creating a mobile social network (but not a dating service) that would collect data as described in idea 2 and then it could create an online travel guide of some sort by using the data of people’s interests taking in account they country of origin and country’s economical possitions.