Tourism - Team 5 - SafeBook

Plan your event safely.

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Overview

The COVID-19 global pandemic has caused Hoosiers to be cautious of large public gatherings due to safety concerns. Event coordinators must track and manage changes to their events, including mask requirements, group size limitations and venue locations, as circumstances shift frequently due to the spread of the virus. SafeBook: Plan Events Safely is a platform for event coordinators to post and view event listings with public safety details, that can be updated as state and local guidelines change.

Team Members

Christian Hirstein - Business major at Ivy Tech Community College Columbus. Worked as project manager, created the business model canvas, environmental analysis, audio for the Go Squad section of the video presentation, named the product, and wrote the abstract.

Chidinma Offor – Computer Science major at University of Indianapolis. Worked on front-end HTML and CSS in designing responsive cloud-based platform.

Roopali Sanka - Energy Engineering major at IUPUI. Worked on user feedback and ideas formation by contacting multiple business professionals via email and LinkedIn, created customer persona(s) and value proposition canvas.

Cindy Shi – Computer Science major at Purdue University. Worked on front-end development pertaining to the look and feel of content.

Timothy Stegall – Computer Science major at Indiana State University, Terre Haute. Worked on programming server side code and database development, security and web hosting.

How did you decide on this customer segment, problem, and solution?

As a team, we met several times via Zoom and Google Meet to brainstorm potential solutions and a prospective product idea. We decided to home in on one specific geographic location (Indianapolis, IN). Once the geographic location was decided, we developed a PESTLE-based environmental analysis and determined that our prospective target audience for the product would be event coordinators for convention centers and hotels. From there, we collaborated ideas based around the perceived emotional responses from attendees of conventions and conferences. We based our analysis on our own individual experiences in attending live events. We also discussed our notes with family members and friends. We determined that a product based around making the user feel safe through direct knowledge was the best approach for our product. The key features we chose for our platform allow the user (event coordinators) to easily post and update event listings based on changing local and state guidelines for public safety in relation to events at convention centers and hotels. We had a “customer first” approach to our product wherein we wanted to create something easy to navigate with a search feature that allowed the public to easily search based on their individual comfort level in attending events during a global pandemic. Our customer segment was event coordinators and event attendees, the problem was perception/implementation of public safety, and the solution was an easy-to-use, knowledge-based responsive platform.

How did your team build and iterate on the solution?

We built a prototype using multiple software applications and met weekly via Zoom and Google Meet to discuss features, layout, and our evolving business model. A member of the go squad reached out to several business professionals via email and LinkedIn to create dialog about our ideas and possible implementation of said ideas.

Technical Architecture

Code hosted here on GitHub, and hosted live here.

Key Tools, Libraries, and Frameworks

PHP for the server-side scripting language HTML and CSS for page styling & layout JavaScript for front-end functionality GitHub for the version control system Heroku for web hosting

If you had another 5 weeks to work on this, what would you do next?

If we had another five weeks to work on the project, we would revisit our cultivated premium features list as we were unable to implement every feature due to time restraints. Specifically, we would further develop real-time alerts to event coordinators based on changing local and state safety guidelines. We would also develop functionality for gathering registrant information from attended events for potential contact tracing. The icons feature would be further enhanced to become a part of the robust search feature. We would also work out the rest of the details in relation to a premium subscription-based interface for the financial aspect of the deliverable.

Citations

Product research was conducted through feedback from team members, coaches, friends and family.

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