User Scenarios

Name: Olivia

Age: 19

Location: Denton, TX

Occupation: Student

Olivia is a student at UNT and she has such a busy schedule but one thing she enjoys doing is running. She runs about four times a week to stay fit. She normally goes on the universities track but she is getting tired of seeing the same thing over and over so she decided to start exploring new places to run around town. The problem is she is unfamiliar with the town and she doesnt really leave campus much because she is so busy. She is worried she might go running into the wrong neighborhood or run into some rediculous traffic. One of her friends told her about the application “Urban Runner” which allows you to map our different routes for running around town. Not only does it do that but it also provides rating systems for existing routes that others have posted showing the level of terrain, amount of traffic and overall safety. She feels much more confident and decides to try it. Once she gets on she realized that through  her contacts in her phone, many people she knows are using it as well and she connects to them. Eventually she starts running with friends who have shared their favorite routes with her. No more boring old track for her!

Name: Doug Funny

Age: 35

Location: Seattle, Washington

Occupation: Insurance Saleman

Doug is an insurance representative for a large insurance company based in Seattle. He is in avid runner and often run in some local competitions for fun when he is free. For the most part he is always on the go. He travels from city to city for his job but that doesnt stop him from going running. One thing he really needed was to learn where the locals would run. Everytime he would go out running he would run into issues, hed get lost or he would hit a dead end. He was browsing through the app store on his Iphone and he found a running app called “Urban Runner” so he thought he would give it a try. To his amazement it allowed him to map out his routes from city to city and see popular routes that had bin posted about the area based on his current location. Not only did the gps navigation of the app ease the fear of getting lost he was also able to find popular and safe routes in every city he visited. In his eyes this was awesome he could feed his two passions while on the go, adventure and running. Hurray!