SMDP app
Possible names for app are "Clean Sidewalks", or "Happy Walk" or "Safe Walk". Not very catchy, maybe something else will come up. The app will be used to report and alert the Morgantown cleaning crew, to dog droppings, trash, vomit and other items that need attention, using photographs with GPS positioning that will show the locations of the items on maps. When the situation is remedied, the reporting individual will receive a point, in addition to the point they received when reporting the item. After a certain number of points and "Good Citizen Awards", the reporter will receive a coupon for a free coffee or ice cream or other item from a variety of downtown shop owners. People can also report an unsafe or unlawful condition by taking a picture which will go to a suitable city authority. This will not take the place of a 911 call, but will augment it.
The persona of users may be:
JOHN - a student who lives in South Park and walks to class every day across the Walnut St Bridge. He uses lots of apps and other social networking. He is somewhat social minded, but is frankly just tired of walking around piles of dog droppings and food refuse on the narrow bridge that he is forced to use. He also has a part time job at night which he takes a bus to but has to walk back over the bridge to get home, and is tired of trying to avoid the droppings in the dark, as the bridge is ill lit. He wants to have a clear pathway to walk on and finds the droppings distasteful to say the least, and will find it a plus to get a free coffee or ice cream or chips or some other reward for his efforts.
MARY - a student who lives on campus, but goes downtown because it is there. She can sometimes find a new item of clothing or some jewelry in one of the High Street stores. Where here home is, the streets do not have vomit and dog droppings on them, and she finds that they detract from her experience when she just wants a pleasant break from classes. She might go downtown more often if it were cleaner, and if there were more stores that she could go to.
MS. WASHINGTON - a store owner on High Street who struggles to keep the area in front of her store clean. She is happy that the city has started power washing the sidewalks regularly, and has hired extra sidewalk cleaners that help keep High Street clean. There is no reason that she should be cleaning up vomit from a bar four doors down, when she does not serve alcohol herself. She can consult the maps to see what the rest of High Street looks like cleanliness-wise. She is delighted to give an occasional coffee to the reporting residents who have earned it. They are making her life more pleasant, and they buy other things when they come in, too.
GRACE - a woman in her 60's who does not drive and walks into town over the Walnut St Bridge to shop at Dollar General and the Mountain People Co-Op. She is somewhat handicapped and uses a two wheeled shopping cart. While she could take the Pleasant St Bridge, the Walnut St Bridge is more convenient from the Greenmont Neighborhood she lives in. She hates walking through and pulling her cart through the dog droppings. She is a very civic minded person also and does not understand how people can be so ignorant and thoughtless as to let their pets go in a public spot that so many people have to walk through daily. Nothing would give her more pleasure than to have the offending pet owners caught and fined, and if she can take a picture of them and send it to the Safety alert without endangering herself, she will. Otherwise, she is happy to report the droppings themselves knowing that at least she won't have to wait until the next rainy period for the droppings to go away, or until so many shoes have gathered them up that they are no longer there.
RALPH - a city worker who likes to walk to work. He does not want to be seen as a complainer and has long wanted to say something about the dog droppings and trash. Now he can use the app to make an anonymous report, and people in the office won't think he is being a wuss about the cleanliness issues and he won't be seen as a troublemaker.
Possible names for app are "Clean Sidewalks", or "Happy Walk" or "Safe Walk". Not very catchy, maybe something else will come up. The app will be used to report and alert the Morgantown cleaning crew, to dog droppings, trash, vomit and other items that need attention, using photographs with GPS positioning that will show the locations of the items on maps. When the situation is remedied, the reporting individual will receive a point, in addition to the point they received when reporting the item. After a certain number of points and "Good Citizen Awards", the reporter will receive a coupon for a free coffee or ice cream or other item from a variety of downtown shop owners. People can also report an unsafe or unlawful condition by taking a picture which will go to a suitable city authority. This will not take the place of a 911 call, but will augment it.
The persona of users may be:
JOHN - a student who lives in South Park and walks to class every day across the Walnut St Bridge. He uses lots of apps and other social networking. He is somewhat social minded, but is frankly just tired of walking around piles of dog droppings and food refuse on the narrow bridge that he is forced to use. He also has a part time job at night which he takes a bus to but has to walk back over the bridge to get home, and is tired of trying to avoid the droppings in the dark, as the bridge is ill lit. He wants to have a clear pathway to walk on and finds the droppings distasteful to say the least, and will find it a plus to get a free coffee or ice cream or chips or some other reward for his efforts.
MARY - a student who lives on campus, but goes downtown because it is there. She can sometimes find a new item of clothing or some jewelry in one of the High Street stores. Where here home is, the streets do not have vomit and dog droppings on them, and she finds that they detract from her experience when she just wants a pleasant break from classes. She might go downtown more often if it were cleaner, and if there were more stores that she could go to.
MS. WASHINGTON - a store owner on High Street who struggles to keep the area in front of her store clean. She is happy that the city has started power washing the sidewalks regularly, and has hired extra sidewalk cleaners that help keep High Street clean. There is no reason that she should be cleaning up vomit from a bar four doors down, when she does not serve alcohol herself. She can consult the maps to see what the rest of High Street looks like cleanliness-wise. She is delighted to give an occasional coffee to the reporting residents who have earned it. They are making her life more pleasant, and they buy other things when they come in, too.
GRACE - a woman in her 60's who does not drive and walks into town over the Walnut St Bridge to shop at Dollar General and the Mountain People Co-Op. She is somewhat handicapped and uses a two wheeled shopping cart. While she could take the Pleasant St Bridge, the Walnut St Bridge is more convenient from the Greenmont Neighborhood she lives in. She hates walking through and pulling her cart through the dog droppings. She is a very civic minded person also and does not understand how people can be so ignorant and thoughtless as to let their pets go in a public spot that so many people have to walk through daily. Nothing would give her more pleasure than to have the offending pet owners caught and fined, and if she can take a picture of them and send it to the Safety alert without endangering herself, she will. Otherwise, she is happy to report the droppings themselves knowing that at least she won't have to wait until the next rainy period for the droppings to go away, or until so many shoes have gathered them up that they are no longer there.
RALPH - a city worker who likes to walk to work. He does not want to be seen as a complainer and has long wanted to say something about the dog droppings and trash. Now he can use the app to make an anonymous report, and people in the office won't think he is being a wuss about the cleanliness issues and he won't be seen as a troublemaker.
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