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- Problem: The problem of "Difficulties finding people to practice a sport" refers to the challenge of being unable to find individuals or groups with whom to engage in physical activity or play a particular sport. This issue may arise due to factors such as lack of awareness of available options, limited social network, or scheduling conflicts. It can be a significant barrier to engaging in regular exercise or pursuing athletic interests, potentially leading to decreased motivation and lower overall health and well-being.
- Solution: A mobile app can be a solution to address this problem by providing a platform for Uniandes students to connect with like-minded individuals, checking sports availability in a facility, offer specific tools at the sports center, and notifying them about relevant preferences. This app can help users overcome logistical and social barriers, foster a sense of community, and encourage ongoing engagement in physical activity, promoting improved physical and mental health.
| Problems | Alternatives | Solutions | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| I need a way to find a group to play a specific sport that I want, at a time that I'm available | 1. I can try messaging in sport WhatsApp groups with the hope that someone will respond to my requests. 2. I can try joining Facebook groups and trying to look for people that are available at the same time, but this is time consuming and tedious |
A mobile application that can show me who is playing which sport and at which time. Aditionally, it should help me tell those groups that I want to play with them. | Juan Andrés Romero |
| My group of friends isn't big enough to play some team sports together. There's always one spot missing so we have to restrict our playstyles. | 1. We can try asking other people around la caneca, but it seems that everyone is already occupied and no one wants to play with us. 2. We have messaged other friends but 9 out of 10 times they are in class and can't attend our training sessions. |
A centralized application where I can post my group's activities (where it includes which sport and at which time) and where others can notify us to fill in our empty spots | Juan Andrés Romero |
| I want to try a new sport, but I don't know where to start. | 1. I can look for instructional videos online or read books about the sport to learn the basics. 2. I can ask people I know who play the sport for advice on how to get started. |
Join a beginner's class for the sport to learn the basics and meet other beginners who are also learning the sport. This can be offered by volunteer students on the events section in a mobile application. Furthermore, when looking to join a event, the different public events could be filtered by the expected level of mastery in the sport players. | Juan Sebastián Alegría |
| I have physical limitations that make it difficult for me to find people who can accommodate them during a game at university. | 1. I can try to contact organizations that focus on the sport with players that have similar limitations. 2. I can ask my physical therapist or doctor for recommendations. |
Create an application where I can require help of instructors, trainers, and general sport center team for adapting some spaces, track my health status, or giving extra support while going to La Caneca | Juan Sebastián Alegría |
| I feel anxious about starting to practice a new sport, I find it really hard to meet new people to teach me and I don't know how to ask my friends | 1.I can look for people that have the same problem as me in social networks | Create an app where I can find new people without having the pressure of looking too much before I find someone. | María Camila Gómez |
| My group and I can't find a place to play the sport we want to | We could look in university reservation pages | Use an app that gathers all information in one place, so we could find a sport faster than usual | María Camila Gómez |
| I have no recognition in front of my colleagues regarding sports | Voice to voice among players about a player who is very good | An application that provides digital medals to those players with outstanding performances. | Javier Peniche |
| Sometimes more people come to the games than necessary to be able to play. | One of the players decides to give his place in the game so that those who arrived when the teams were already full can play also. | An application that allows you to see if the number of players in the matches is already complete. | Javier Peniche |
| High-performance athletes at the university want to meet students with the same abilities to play sports with someone of their level, but they do not know this information. | Ask at the university sports center who are the high performance athletes or ask each of the students | A centralized application that has updated information on the sports performance of university students by sport, such as hours practiced or achievements obtained. | Luis Castro |
| People do not have a schedule or a weekly plan to practice their sports therefore they do not have a reminder of when they are going to practice a sport. | Have a schedule on a sheet where the sports activities that are going to be done are written down, or manually add in a digital calendar when the sports activities are going to be done. | An application that allows you to choose the exercise or sport sessions at the time you want and that gives you a calendar with the activities you selected and also have reminders of when it is going to be carried out. | Luis Castro |
- Which are the local features that take the longest time to execute? Which part in the code is causing this performance impact?
- How many times has the user forgotten to attend an event they registered on? This can help us gather information to improve the UX and see what alternatives are there to improve the attendance rate.
- Which are the most searched/played sports by the user per week? This can help us recommend better information regarding exercises and food to eat during/after playing the sport.
- What are the most frequent hours in which the user attends or creates events? Recommend existing matches to the user based on their history of played matches.
- How many hours has the user practiced a specific sport during the week? This information is used for the functionalities of personal statistics, achievements and university ranking, there will be an achievement that is the star of the week by sport, and the user will also be notified if they have lost the ranking podium so that they can continue practicing the sport.
- How many times has an event creator failed to bring the number of people he signed up for the activity? The context is that to create an event, the event creator has to put the number of people who go with him, so that the application knows how many people must complete, this information is useful because when an event creator does not comply with carrying out the people who go with him, the event is incomplete, therefore a warning will be shown to the user when he fails to comply in several events that if he continues with this pattern he will be banned
- What are the most requested or desired features by users who are looking for sports partners? This will help prioritize the implementation of these functions to improve user satisfaction and retention.
- Which features are being used less than 3 times a week?
- Which is the most used feature and why is it the most used? This can help us improve said features or discover reasons to improve other features.
- What is the distribution of users per sport? We can sell this information to an advertising company so they know who to offer certain ads better
- Which are the most popular sports activities among the app users? How can we leverage this information to improve user engagement and experience, inform partnerships with third-party companies, and potentially increase profitability for the app? (Type 4 - Benefits from data and Type 2 - Direct user experience improvement)
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