My findings include that people like community when it comes to parks and mobile apps. Other commonalities included apps such as hipstamatic and instagram, which incorporate photography and social media, such as posting to facebook. Other apps like fantasy football and MLB at bat where also brought up when it came to most used apps. When I aked people what their favorite park was here in town, most where at a loss for words and typically refered to them as “the one over by or close to…” which presents a whole other list of problems. Some commonalities occured between the functionality of an app and the things people tend to enjoy about parks. These findings included Ease of use, community, usefulness, enjoyment, proximity, ect.
After interviewing severeral of my friends and neighbors, I also started to consider the funtionallity of events and notifications. In which ways can something like a park clean up be sponsored by a bigger online community, and how does something like a burn ban be announced. When it comes to online communities for the most part your name or username is everything, but a park is different in the sense that for the most part everyone there is a stranger, and would like to remain anonomous.
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