Interview Summary

As a worker for ACU Athletics, students don’t show up to athletics games at ACU like other universities. Most students know about the football games because we advertise football games more so than other sports teams. So I decided to create an ‘ACU Athletics app’ that shows and notifies students and alumni when games are going on so that they can come to the games. I also want the app to be able to present rosters of the ACU athletes and the visiting team since most people don’t grab the roster sheets. Also if you quickly want to see who the person is and don’t want to scroll through the rosters you can take a picture of the person and the info of the player will come up instantly. Also if students have homework or something and can’t make it to the games, their phones can instantly notify them the score of the game right after the game ends (like the ESPN app). Also, some freshman and non ACU students don’t always know where the sports games are held at so I want to make a map at to show the location of where the game is held.

I surveyed ACU students and some alumni and found out some interesting information such as that most of them do not attend the games because they don’t know information about when the game is held . Majority of the people surveyed wrote they would want a phone application to tell them about the games or some type of text messaging to notify them when games are going on. Another question I asked was what would make students attend more athletic games and most responded knowing about the games and free stuff. What if the app presented notifications of when a game was and the first 10 students who attend the game receive free food or merchandise.