Juliana Chan

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• Juliana Chan
• Thesis Spring 07

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Background

• Text messaging
• Cell phones are ubiquitous
• Portable
• Economical
• Entertaining

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Concept

• Tamagotchis idea but implementing it on a cell
  phone
• An ideal game for cell phone users who are busy
  but want the experience of owning a pet
• Method of communication will be SMS

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How to start?
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How to play?

• MobileDog will require a certain kind of
  attention from you
• You will receive a SMS alert
• Communicate using the query language

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Query Language
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Wireframe
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Interactivity

• Weather
• Connects to other mobiledogs
• Games
• Location
• Time

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How to engage users

• Competition among mobile dogs?
• Make it real, it will get sick, hungry, unhappy,
  sad
• Image of the mobiledog
• Personalize their own commands

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Mobiledog Community

• Dogster.com and catster.com
• Allow users to take care of one anothers dogs?
• Allow mobiledogs to go to school and earn degree?
• Allow mobiledogs to learn from one another

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Future

• Connect to real dogs
• Babysitting community

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Questions?

• Comments?
• Suggestions?