The hot phase in developing the initial version of Sendinel has started some weeks ago. We, the seven bachelor students from the HPI in Potsdam/Germany, work full-time on Sendinel now until the end of June. This means that we can focus fully on shipping a good and meaningful end product. If you want to follow the development in code feel free to watch our open Github repository. And watching the network graph is hopefully going to give you a good understanding of the speed with which we are progressing currently.
Our aim for the first big milestone is to implement a feature set which enables us to do user testing. That is going to happen on a research trip to South Africa from March 23rd to March 28th 2010, where our whole team will try to get first-hand feedback from the users. We will also do user studies on the working environment there. This will hopefully give us a good understanding of the conditions and needs of the users.
The research trip will take us to the Living Lab of SAP in Mpumalanga near the Kruger National Park in the east of South Africa.
This video by SAP provides a good inside view of the Living Lab.
This map shows the location of one of the clinics:
Bigger Map
In the next weeks we will post more information on the trip preparation and the project progress.
What is Sendinel?
Sendinel is a computer system, which aims at supporting clinics when they want to contact their patients. Via Sendinel the clinic staff can send SMS, a Voice Call or calendar entries to the patients’ mobile phones. For example, the messages can be reminders for follow–up consultations or notifications about arrived medicine. The development of Sendinel focused on clinics in rural South Africa.
Tuesday, 2 March 2010
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