Dimuth KulasingheMentor: Nirav Merchant

Affiliated with: Stealth Health

Worked in U of A project Stealth Health

Goal is to educate youth about physical activity and nutrition by using pervasive geospatial technologies

Use of smart phone with GPS capability and data, text messaging plan. Primary pervasive and ubiquitous device provided to youth in the study.

SMS text messaging often limited to one-to-one correspondences

No standard system for group text messaging

Dearth of flexible and simple to use SMS broadcasting systems

Create smart phone application that allows users to broadcast messages using traditional LISTSERV functions

Application simply has to be installed, and system is ready to go

Application cost based only on the administrator’s text messaging plan

User costs depend on subscribers’ respective data plans

Users register with application Users then subscribe to desired topics Application allows user to broadcast messages

to all subscribers in the topic Specific members can be met and messaged

directly New topics can be suggested Topics represented as traditional twitter hash-

tags (#)

User 1

Subscribe to #veggies

User 2Message about #veggies

User 3

User 4

Message about #veggies

Message about #veggies

Tested at Model United Nations Conference Facilitated communication between speakers

at conference Major improvement over traditional walkie

talkies

Many other potential use cases

Classroom environment

Farmer’s market

Neighborhood Watch

AspirationsAspirations

Nirav Merchant for introducing me to Stealth Health

Dave Parizek for assistance with programming logic

James Vancel and Stealth Health team for useful feedback

NASA for the opportunity