Honours Project: - Napier University

Gregory Huet
Honours Project
99034735 Dr. William Buchanan
colour code. In the commercial version, this notion of importance will be improved with the
use of colours and icons.
•The possibility to add, edit or remove events for each day:
Like in all calendars, users can create an event in the selected date. They could change the
content of the description of this event or delete it. All these events are recorded in the
database.
•A collaborative calendar to share information with a group/community of users:
During the creation of a new event, users are allowed to let other users see it if they belong to
the same group or community. This is the main feature of this project.
•Notion of level of importance of the events (normal/important/very important):
As a personal event or a shared event, users can define its level of importance, which will be
characterised in the calendar with the use of a colour code. For instance, a normal event will
be blue (cold colour in visual psychology) , an important one is black and a very important is
red (warm colour which attracts the attention of users).
•The possibility to have an automatic and customised alarm reminder:
An automatic reminder is important if users access this application for a professional purpose.
This reminder is represented as an email sent to the users’ mailbox (PC, WAP phone or PDA)
or a SMS (short messaging service) message sent to their mobile phones or PDA.
•Customisation of the interface:
It is very important to give to users the possibility to customise the interface of the application
and its menu. The first version of this application only allows the modification of the interface
by selecting its shape and its colours. The customisation of the menu is very important as
well, because users will use their menu to add their personal links. This feature allows users to
redefine a part of the application and gives them the freedom to feel the ownership of the
software.
1.2.2 The commercial version
The commercial version will be developed after signing contract with a French corporation.
The needs are similar, but the application has to present more features:
•Electronic address book:
This functionality attracts users because the main application will regroup a lot of features
usually found in several software/web sites. In fact, another goal of this application is to
centralise a lot of components to simplify the users’ accessibity.
•Portal of information directly linked to the users’ calendar to display the events in
relation with their interests:
A vortal (vertical industry portal) will be added to give more information to the users via their
electronic calendar. For instance, if a group of users are interested in computing, it will be
informed of new releases, events and meeting. So the users table needs to be improved to add
more fields to record the users’ interests.
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