Week 5: FAT Consult with Johannes
- Julia
- Jun 5, 2019
- 2 min read
Today we had our FAT Consult with Johannes de Boer and Remco Mikkers. Remco was very interested in our progress regarding the pedestal, the letters, the hardware and also the team dynamics - lucky for us, we went to an Escape Room after the FAT Consult for some team building and it was a lot of fun! What I was especially interested in today was Johannes's ideas for the database.
Feedback from Remco
Remco asked about our pedestal and Dzhulia explained him how we are going to build it. Then, he also wanted to know more about the blog. I sent him the link to the blog and showed him some of the categories. Remco was a bit worried that we would forget about a few things that will be important for the justification and advised me to write down the evaluation of the previous sprint. So I think I'm going to do that here on the blog. He also asked me to show him our social media channels and explain a bit about the social media strategy, which I did. I also explained to him that we are currently negotiating with De Broodbode for the sponsoring.
Feedback from Johannes
Johannes told me that his idea consists of geo-tracking. For some of the letters, the user could not only scan the QR code but also calculate a route to a location of interest. By this, we can track if the user actually went to that location and if the website provided value to him/her. I like this idea because it is useful for the City of Enschede, but I also have a few concerns. My biggest concern is that I will not be able to program it. Johannes said that I could use the Google Maps API "easily" but I doubt that it will be that easy. From my experience, web programming is very challenging, the Google API documentation is... let's say, worth improving - especially for beginners - and I have to create a new user for each person searching the location. I am also a bit worried that having to scan a second QR code or having to sign up will discourage many users from continuing and make the user experience less nice. Furthermore, there are some privacy issues related to the tracking. The user would have to give his/her consent to the tracking before it could be done, which would again discourage many users from continuing.
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