FreeSpeech is an app that provides a more enriching experience when walking around Sproul Plaza. If the user isn't within 50 meters from Sproul Plaza, the user will be unable to paint anything; the point is we want the user to actually be present at Sproul Plaza before experiencing what we have to offer. Working with the Qualcomm Toq watch, the app will notify you when you're within 50 meters of Sproul Plaza, prompting the user to click on a specific card on their Toq app. Upon clicking the card and only this card (all other cards won't open the smartphone app), the user will see an image of a famous Free Speech Movement person and a request to draw. The watch will open up the FreeSpeech drawing app on your smartphone, allowing the user to paint, erase, paint with different sizes of brushes, paint with shapes, clear, save, load, and submit to Flickr with the tag #cs160fsm. Upon uploading your image to Flickr, the smartphone will pull down a random image tagged #cs160fsm and push it onto the Toq watch, which the user can view by clicking on the "Image from Flickr" card.
The app has been designed to provide as much feedback to make using the app very simple to use.
I recommend viewing the video first to get a better feel about how the app works. The slides go into slightly more depth about the features I included.
About the video: My cousin and his friend were playing in the background, so try to ignore the yelling and screaming for the first minute. Also the first part of the video is me running through the app like a user, but I've set the distance and target location to somewhere. The behavior is the same. In the second part, I'm actually running the app at Sproul Plaza. Also, it's a couple seconds longer than 90 seconds, but I've included extra credit.
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