Gantt Chart: Opening Statement: GhostRide is going to change the way you cycle for fitness and fun. Accomplished: General: GhostRideCycling.com is the domain for the promotional website (which I have yet to upload… I will get to it… eventually) Finally talked to Velma about grant money I have been neglecting forever (fight me) Code…
GhostRide leverages mobile GPS technology like no other cycling app, putting users head to head with other rider’s recorded races and allowing them to react when it matters– in the moment. Gannt Chart: Tasks Completed: Implemented Google Login required a change in my “verification pattern” for users to work with a mobile application. Because…
Gantt Chart: Goals accomplished: -Basic functionality in terms of waypoint setting, uploading and timing. -Started design and implementation of basic promotion, account registration and account management pages for the GhostRide community/promotional website. Promotional Website demo: Demo Website – Realtime updating of stats (example in the form of the scoreboard for the IMRC Open Studios…
Opening Statement: GhostRide encourages you to go farther faster, more frequently. Gantt Chart: Summary of Gantt Chart tasks: Essentially, simple implementations base features of application. Mainly focused on the GhostRide feature and underlying data structures/storage/retrieval process. Progress: Created proof of concept prototype in xcode. Connected app to backend mysql database using post requests.…
Opening Statement: How can GhostRide encourage you to get more active? Gantt Chart: Essentially, the last couple of weeks have been spent on implementation research, look & feel, and preliminary design. According to the chart, I’m slightly ahead of where I wanted to be in terms of design and preliminary implementation research. Look & Feel:…
Approaching the “killer feature” of GhostRide from a computer free or atypical new media approach is difficult. The main premise of GhostRide is to allow actionable realtime records of people’s rides to play out while they are out riding. That means there needs to be some way in which riders mark their rides and pace…
Abstract Cycling is a popular sport for the health benefits, its competitive nature and just because cycling is fun. While there exists a variety of apps and tools to track your progress and find groups to ride in, they all fall toward the side of serious data driven cycling. Ghost Ride intends to challenge the…
Get A Website Part of the plan for GhostRide is to have a promotional and community website wrapped into one. The final name of the application is not yet finalized so the domain name has not yet been purchased. Promotion is planned to being in January, so the basis of the promotional portion of the…
Abstract Cycling is a popular sport for the health benefits, its competitive nature and just because cycling is fun. While there exists a variety of apps and tools to track your progress and find groups to ride in, they all fall toward the side of serious data driven cycling. Ghost Ride intends to challenge the…
Problem: A Disappearing Language Solution B is the new media solution. Distributing technology to a large number of people and fostering collective, unexpected cooperation is what really makes this solution the “many to many” that defines a new media approach. It’s also a platform that is more open to grow beyond its originally conceived notions…