Outdoor Activities Application A

Outdoor Activities Application A

1. Criteria

   • Prescribed
     • Help with the participation in outdoor activities
       • Provide associated Wifi hotspots
       • Categorise parks into groups
       • Provide parks in proximity to the user through GPS tracking
     • Give the location of outdoor activities
       • Give the address of the park
       • Provide a map of the parks
       • Provide a search function for parks
     • Combine data from two of the open datasets listed in the stimulus
       • Include only COVID-safe locations
       • Use datasets listed in the stimulus
       • Remove duplicates and redundant data from the datasets (normalisation)
       • Implement a foreign key to link the datasets
       • Use two datasets
       • Implement cardinality between the datasets
     • Design a web application
       • Design a database structure
       • Design an interface
       • Design algorithms
   • Self-determined
     • Usability principles
       • Utility
         • iPhone and desktop formats
         • Successfully and easily complete its purpose
       • Effectiveness
         • Layout from most important to least important data
         • Categorised data
       • Accessibility
         • Legible font and text size
         • Colour change on hover, colour change on click and outline on active for buttons
         • Large buttons
         • Alternate text for media
         • Screen reading
         • Sufficient text-colour contrast according to WCAG AAA standards
       • Learnability
         • Consistent style across page(s)
         • Universal icons
         • Layout similar to existing solutions
       • Safety
         • Ability of undo any action
         • Consent prompts when collecting user personal information
     • Elements and principles of visual communication
       • An aesthetically appealing interface
       • A modern, professional and clear interface
         • Uncluttered
         • Black or white
       • A neutral, universally appealing interface
         • Not potentially skewed towards or away from a demographic
     • Australian Privacy Principles
       • Privacy Policy
       • Regular update and backup of database
       • Restricted access to database
       • Access to personal information
       • Deletion of unsolicited personal information
         • Failed validation
       • Server-side validation
       • No government related identifiers
       • Notification of direct marketing
       • Anonymous interface
       • Notification of data collection
       • No cross-border disclosure of personal information
     • Ranking system
       • Allow users to ‘like’ parks
       • Display the number of ‘likes’ for a park
       • Allow user to ‘unlike’ parks
       • Order parks from most to least liked

2. Functional Requirements

   • What a solution is supposed to do
     • A specific list of actions controlled by code
       • User interface
         • Specific equipment to be used, description of user interface and specific text or data fields
       • Data interface
         • Datasets, file formats, data structure, cleaning data, filtering data, collecting new data, validating data
   • File formats
     • Standard information is encoded for storage in a computer file
       • .css, .html, .py, .png, .doc, .txt, .svg, .db, .mp4
   • Data structure
     • Relational database
       • A relational database organizes data into tables which can be linked—or related—based on data common to each.
   • Datasets
     • From the Australian Government
       • Park Locations
       • Wifi Hotspot Locations
   • The interface must...
     • Display the content of datasets in an understandable way to the user
       • Table, list or images
     • Give the location of parks
       • Address, map or directions
     • Give the location of wifi hotspots
       • Only include wifi hotspots associated with parks
         • Filter with foreign key constraints and server-side verification
     • Include data only within the Brisbane area
       • Filter the data through server-side verification

3. Available Resources

   • Software
     • Python
       • Python libraries
         • Flask
           • Web framework used to create simple applications
       • Interpreted, object-orientated, high-level programming language that connects existing components
     • Database
       • SQL
         • SQLite3
           • C Llibrary that provides a lightweight, disk-based database
         • Structured Query Language
       • Store data involved in the application
     • Interface
       • HTML
         • Tells web servers the style and structure of a document
         • Hypertext Markup Language
       • The access point for users to interact with the data
       • CSS
         • Cascading Style Sheets
         • Describes the presentation of the document written in HTML
       • Jinja2
         • Creates HTML that is returned to the user via HTTP response
       • JavaScript
         • Lightweight, interpreted programing language with first-class functions
   • Hardware
     • Laptop
       • For research, documentation and synthesis
   • Data
     • Datasets from the Australian Government
       • Parks, Events, Amenities, Activities and Plants
   • Knowledge
     • Internet
       • Existing Solutions
         • Research
       • Code examples
       • Software guides
         • W3Schools

4. Impacts

   • Personal
     • Health and wellbeing
       • Fresh air
       • Exercise
       • Improves mental health
     • Security
       • Personal information may be gained by undesirables
         • GPS tracking
           • Stalking
         • Email
           • Harrassment
         • Loss of trust in application and other similar applications
     • Access to resources, services and opportunities
       • Sport
       • Parks
       • Outdoor activities
       • Wifi hotspots
     • Meeting with friends
   • Social
     • People can meet and hang out at parks
     • Sporting, botanic, birdwatching, hiking, etc. communities can meet and increase participation
     • Meeting new people
   • Economical
     • Revenue for businesses associated and around parks
       • Cafes, trinket shops, etc.
     • Participation and revenue for sports, gardens and other activities that use park venues