Pick Me Up - a real time carpooling App

Pick Me UpTEAM 16:- Nitin Jain- Sameera Bandhakavi- Vimarsh Karbhari

Why …?

Why Pick Me Up ?

Almost every day, every hour, thousands of vehicles cross hundreds of miles from various locations without realizing the

fact that many of them follow the same route at the same time and can accompany people and earn some money,

reducing their cost of travel…

Why…?

Wouldn’t it be great, if there was an App such that when people have 1-2 or more seats vacant they could use it for

real-time car-pooling and earn some money…

Less traffic, less pollution, save expenses…

Why…?

What if you could see that person (whom you choose to Pick Up) even before you actually meet him…?

Wouldn’t it help you decide whether you should go ahead with the choice or choose another person…?

Why not use the power of Social Media…?

Project Objective

What is Pick Me Up ?An Android based Mobile Application that can be used for real time carpooling…

Objective:To serve all those users who are going on short journeys, have some seats vacant and are willing to Pick and Drop people for some money.

To use the power of social media and geo-location and make an application in the car-pooling domain, more usable and trustworthy.

System Design and Development

Type of Users:

Driver• Start Location• Start Time of Journey• Destination Location• Pickup within (range in miles) :Driver specifies the distance around him in which to find the Passengers.• Search by(distance or money):Give me best results based on how far the passengers are from me within specified radius

ORbased on money the passengers are willing to pay in the specified radius.• Contact Number

Passenger• Start Location• Start Time• Destination Location• Number of PeopleNumber of people to be Picked up by the driver.• Amount willing to pay per person• Contact Number

Initial Prototype:

Final User Interface:(Passenger)

(Driver)

System Functionality and

Features

1. Start to end Social Media Integration• Log – In with Facebook

• Extract the Facebook Profile Picture , Facebook name and Id of User (Driver or Passenger)

• Driver can see the Facebook Picture of Passenger in the query results

2. Auto-Complete using Google Places API

• Helps the user to enter the Start and End location without incurring the short term Memory Load to remember or completely type it.• Prevents Errors.• Server-side validation for incorrect source and destination addresses.

3. Validation to prevent Errors

4. Quick summary of the Passenger• Helps the Driver to stay on the

Map and get a brief overview about an available choice of Passenger.• Driver can check all the available

options staying on the same screen.

5. Notification to the Passenger• When the Driver selects a Passenger to Pick Up, the Passenger gets a

text message.• This text message has a unique code, which is used for proper validation

among Driver and the Passenger.

Passenger Driver

Result and User Evaluation:

J. Nielsen has shown that tests achieved with 5 users

allow to raise at least 80% of the usability problems…

Things they Liked…

• Log-in with Facebook – no need to add another username and password to an already existing long list.

• Social Media Integration – “it feels like the App is talking to us”

• Autocomplete: Recognition better than Recall

• Trust: can see the Passenger’s picture before sending an invitation

• Quick Summary and overview of Passenger results on click on a single screen.

• Error prevention and input validation.

• Aesthetic Appeal and color contrast of the UI.

Things that could be improved and Future Work…• Provide alternative ways of viewing the Passenger results eg. List

view

• Allow change of search criteria easily on the Map without going back.

• We wish to implement Google push notifications for exchange of notifications between Driver and Passenger as it is a better method of communication.

• Integrate with online money transfer services like Paypal for payment.

DEMO

Q & A

Thank You for listening…