USP Campus Map App for New Students and Visitors
USP Campus Map App for New Students and Visitors
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Date
2019-09
Authors
Singh, Vineet
Sharma, Bibhya
Prasad, Ajendra
Raza, Salman
Chand, Sanjeet
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Publisher
Commonwealth of Learning (COL)
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Abstract
New
students or freshmen joining universities and large campuses face huge difficulties and problems in locating
and navigating to their lecture/tutorial rooms and labs. While they already face challenges in securing courses,
textbooks and accommodation, they
also have to adopt their new learning environment and know their way around.
The University of the South Pacific is
a
premier institute of high education for the Pacific region and has membership
of 12 island countries. Therefore, there are students comin
g to the main campus
-
Laucala Campus in Fiji from a
diverse background
in the Pacific and beyond
. The First Year Experience
s
urveys
have revealed that students miss
some of their classes in the first few weeks as they are unable to locate their lecture an
d tutorial rooms given the spread
of the rooms on campus.
Consequently
, many freshmen also
miss
mandatory
formative
assessments. This is one of
the main reasons for developing the USP Campus Map app. Then
,
there
is
also documentation on the discomfort to
v
isitors and guests of the University due to the difficulty in finding places in a timely manner. The USP Campus Map
App is an intuitive tool designed to assist students and the visitors to find their desired places in the campus such as
Library, Book Cent
re, Lecture rooms, Cafeterias, ITS labs, Conference rooms, Student Academic Service building
and many more. It also marks the
w
ashrooms
,
c
afeteria
,
s
ecurity
booth and other common places. The Campus Map
app contains the navigation system that will allow th
e students and visitors to reach their selected destination easily.
The routes that the app provide movement on foot as well as by car. The building information contains the building
number, images and description about that building. The app operates offl
ine after the first download. This paper
discusses the design, development and deployment of the app and feedback from the users. // Paper ID 249
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Subject
Mobile Learning (mLearning),
Technology and Innovation,
Outreach
Country
Fiji
Region
Pacific