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 **Course Director:** Professor Ebrahim Ghafar-Zadeh
 **Project Adviser:** Professor Wolfgang Stuerzlinger
 **Mentor:** Mourad Amara\\
+===== Our Story =====
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 ===== Group Members and Project Roles =====
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 For the scope of this course we hope to develop a complete social network application for university students. This app manipulates the use of Bluetooth technology in order to transfer data between users within BT ranges. The purpose of this app is to link University students with similar programs and/or majors in order to promote social interaction by providing natural ice breakers through user profiles as well as perform transactions such as buying and selling of books and/or tutoring services.\\
-===== Project Overview =====
+===== Our Vision =====
+IceBreaker is not just another social app. We have started this project based on our experience at York University and developed it using the tools we have obtained from many courses.
-=====  Images ( Setup/Schematics/Results) =====
+During Frosh Week or when trying to find a group for your first school project, you would be going around trying to form as many connections as you can with people in the same program as you. IceBreaker helps you to do that by proving you with basic information that will allow you to approach the person.
-**Basic structure of main page, called MyZone**
-{{:projects:g7:myzone.png?450}}
+Furthermore, students can use all the help they need during university whether financial or educational. When going around campus, you find many posters advertising the selling of used books. Even when using a Facebook group, you have to keep scrolling down the page in order to find the book you need and by then it might already be sold but the post is so further down the page that the seller could not find it quickly enough to delete it and hence left it there. We have integrated this buying-and-selling-of-books' transaction into our app to allow for users to convieniently advertise the books they want to sell, easily delete it if already sold and for others to be notified when a book they desire is being sold by another user.
+Furthermore, using our tutoring services, a user can advertise their areas of strengths in certain courses offering to help those younger students that might be struggling with them.
-**Current screen shot of MyZone page**
+In this manner, our app is very specific in that it integrates everything a student needs in one place.
-{{:projects:g7:myzonereal.png?250}}
+===== Project Overview =====
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-**Registration Page**
+The image above shows the main page of our app. Once a user obtains, via bluetooth, a list of nearby users, their profiles will be displayed in the form of "bubbles in motion" with their profile pictures in the inner circle (that picture will be grey if the person is incognito) and the outer circle is colored to indicate the similarity between the users:
+  * Green: no similarity
+  * Pink: Common School
+  * Yellow: Common Major
+  * Blue: This user has/needs something of interest to you (a book or a tutoring service)
+If a user has more than one thing in common with you we prioritize based on the list above where common school is of least priority, followed by common major followed by common transaction which currently is of highest priority.
-{{:projects:g7:registration.png?250}}
+The image below shows how a person in incognito mode appears on other users' homepages as well as how other users appear on his homepage.
+{{:projects:g7:incognito.png|}}
+To maintain mutual respect between users, when a person chooses to appear incognito to other users, he can no longer view other users' profiles (all users appear incognito on his homepage).
+=====  Achieved Results =====
+We have successfully managed to transfer user profiles via BT, allow users to add books and tutoring services that they need or offer and successfully find out what is in common with other users in their vicinity through the colors of the "bubbles in motion" featured in their homepage.\\
-===== Funding=====
+  * Users can now set up their profile indicating the school they go to and their major\\
+{{:projects:g7:registration.png|}}
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+  * Users can offer and/or demand services such as buying and selling of books or tutoring services\\
+{{:projects:g7:books.png|}} {{:projects:g7:tutoring.png|}}
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+  * Users can now view who has school (pink) or course (yellow) in common with them or who has/needs something they need/have (blue)\\
+{{:projects:g7:myzonem.png|}}
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+===== Future Work =====
-===== Latest Presentation =====
+== Short Term Goals ==
+While our app is built on a decentralized P2P network that exchanges profile information between users via Bluetooth, (and hence the users' information are stored locally on the handheld devices) we are moving towards a centralized P2P network. In the centralized P2P network only the handheld devices' IDs will be exchanged between users via Bluetooth which are in turn used to obtain, via the Internet, the users' profiles that are stored on a server. Also, for convenience, we hope to maintain the exchange of profiles via Bluetooth in order to make our app usable in places where a user cannot access the Internet.
+Furthermore, whilst users currently are prompted to enter all their information manually via text fields, once the server is setup, certain textfields will be exchanged with scroll down menues for a more convenient user interface.
+== Long Terms Goals ==
+Whilst we are currently working on the development of a complete social network for University students, we are hoping in the future to expand our app to cater to more people.
+===== Funding=====
+Lassonde School of Engineering ( $1000)\\
+\\
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-  *** Presentation Nov. 15th, 2013 **