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Spotlight would be an Android and iOS mobile phone app that students can go into to report and check on the availability of parking on campus. The home page would be a menu where you can select the parking lot you want to check. They would go by alphabetical order of the names of the parking lots (Brindle, Campus Safety, Gloucester, Hawthorne, Kennedy, Solar, Standish, Stoneridge, and Overflow). Once the parking lot is selected, there will be a sliding bar ranging from green to red that shows how many spots are available in that lot (green is a lot and red is not a lot).
The user of the app can also check the availability of any of the parking spaces on campus and then find the best lot that has an open parking spot. Also when they are driving by other lots, if they notice something different or see an empty spot, they can update the report after finding a spot and turning their car off. The user also has the ability to allow the application access to his/her current location, in order to get immediate updates as soon as he/she arrives on campus. These notifications can be through text banners, but also through audio notifications as well. With this feature the user can get audio updates without having to look down at their phone while they are driving. …show more content…

The future of crowdsourcing is in mobile apps. It is because they are much more convenient than desktop websites and can be very easy to use. Spotlight will be both of those. The home menu and navigation throughout the app will be very straightforward and user friendly to assure that everyone can use it without any issues. This app is using crowdsourcing because it depends on the accurate and often updates from the crowd to work efficiently. If there is minimal reporting, the checking will become inaccurate and therefore users will stop using the

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