Occupancy of CMU Sports Facilities
Made by Rikky Roy Koganti
Made by Rikky Roy Koganti
On campus, we have many different sports facilities available to us. We have basketball, squash, tennis, soccer, swimming, weight-lifting areas, and football fields to use. People use them everyday, but many times, find that these facilities are overcrowded, or in some cases, there are not enough people there to play pickup games with. For example, when some friends go to play basketball in the UC, they find that there are too little people there to start a pickup game. Or it could be the reverse and there are too many people, so they have to wait for an hour before they can play. If they knew beforehand about this information, they might have decided to pick another time or day to play, and could have saved themselves time and effort.
Created: September 14th, 2014
On campus, we have many different sports facilities available to us. We have basketball, squash, tennis, soccer, swimming, weight-lifting areas, and football fields to use. People use them everyday, but many times, find that these facilities are overcrowded, or in some cases, there are not enough people there to play pickup games with. For example, when some friends go to play basketball in the UC, they find that there are too little people there to start a pickup game. Or it could be the reverse and there are too many people, so they have to wait for an hour before they can play. If they knew beforehand about this information, they might have decided to pick another time or day to play, and could have saved themselves time and effort.
I really like how your visualization is both useful and simple with representations that make your data easy to understand. One thing I would suggest for your app is that sometimes I would like to see the capacity to decide where I want to go. Instead of going three layers deep to see the capacity of each facility, I would love for there to be an option to see the current capacity of all 6 facilities at once.
I really like this idea, especially because it makes it easier to make decisions about where to play or work out without having to actually go there. However, I have one concern. Do the rooms in the facilities, like workout rooms, have more than one kind of exercise equipment? If the counter above the door is there to see how many people enter and leave a room, how would the software know what that person is doing? If they are entering a training room with both weights and treadmills, how would the software know or decide which icon to fill, especially if someone wants to run on a treadmill only to find they are all full.
@Anna
That would be a pretty good feature, it could be done by featuring 6 icons on screen together, similar to the starting screen for the app.
@Amanda
Yea, i wondered about that concern as well. For the UC gym, the cardio machines are used a lot more than the free weights and the other machines. Well, i could split the gym up into two icons, one for the cardio machines and one for the other muscle training stuff. There are other people counters that can be placed on the ceiling above the cardio machines as well. This counter just checks for people in a certain radius, so it is possible to edit that radius to just the cardio machines.
Thanks for the feedback!
Interesting way to represent the data. It has come a long way from the idea you had in lab. Also, thanks for reviewing the feedback and commenting back. This is how ideas get refined. And, thanks for commenting on other projects, this is helping your peers refine their ideas as well.
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