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SMS Messaging Applications. Dimuth Kulasinghe Mentor: Nirav Merchant Affiliated with: Stealth Health. Introduction. Worked in U of A project Stealth Health Goal is to educate youth about physical activity and nutrition by using pervasive geospatial technologies - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Worked in U of A project Stealth Health
Goal is to educate youth about physical activity and nutrition by using pervasive geospatial technologies
Use of smart phone with GPS capability and data, text messaging plan. Primary pervasive and ubiquitous device provided to youth in the study.
SMS text messaging often limited to one-to-one correspondences
No standard system for group text messaging
Dearth of flexible and simple to use SMS broadcasting systems
Create smart phone application that allows users to broadcast messages using traditional LISTSERV functions
Application simply has to be installed, and system is ready to go
Application cost based only on the administrator’s text messaging plan
User costs depend on subscribers’ respective data plans
Users register with application Users then subscribe to desired topics Application allows user to broadcast messages
to all subscribers in the topic Specific members can be met and messaged
directly New topics can be suggested Topics represented as traditional twitter hash-
tags (#)
User 1
Subscribe to #veggies
User 2Message about #veggies
User 3
User 4
Message about #veggies
Message about #veggies
Tested at Model United Nations Conference Facilitated communication between speakers
at conference Major improvement over traditional walkie
talkies
Many other potential use cases
Classroom environment
Farmer’s market
Neighborhood Watch
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