Fun + Meaning2 = 2030 finals

Personalized Activities Recommender

Our solution works in reality! Indeed! If you don’t believe, ask the participants and instructor of the Smoothie workshop we organised! A participant said that the workshop was literally bombastic: it was a bomb of fun and we ended with a bomb of healthy vitamins in our stomachs! Beside this event, we made a survey on our future target group and took the first steps of implementation (developing software in Eclipse and Android SDK). Also, we prepared a financial plan and did marketing research in order to get investors. In addition, we talked with experts in data mining and advertising. However, we don’t have an intention to stop the improvements at this point. Hopefully, by 2030 the Earth will be a much better place to live where poverty is a word from the past and everyone in the world will have equal access to technology. Therefore, more and more people will contribute through our solution in making the Earth the most beautiful planet in the Solar System!

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Fun + Meaning2 = 2030 semi finals

Semi - Personalized Activities Recommender

Perhaps the personalized activities recommender (from now on PAR) is not as fast as Superman in saving the planet, but it offers a long-term solution in which superpowers are not required. As we are studying electrical engineering, we have clear vision of PAR as website supported by a user friendly mobile application where all you need is account on the website and will to have fun (yes, our goal is the site and the app to be free)! In other words, PAR is fun detector which will be beyond the state of the art in this field. The aim of our solution is to recommend meaningful, fun and environment friendly activities. By activity we mean everything that can be regarded as one: from workshops, DIY projects to doing sports and volunteering. The recommendations are based on previous calculations that include the interests and abilities of the user. For every user, the crucial step to precisely calculated recommendations is giving feedback after each activity done. But, not only recommends, the PAR also calculates how the activity will affect on your personal development and on the planet, if you make it. Therefore, beside saving the planet, the user can make self-evaluation and improve his/her quality of life. However, these are not the only functions that the fun detector has to offer. As an addition, it connects people with same interests locally and globally. Currently, this kind of people is connected with on-line forums. But forums’ disadvantage is that they cannot be global and local at the same time. With PAR, we overcome that problem. Frankly, we would not have this clear vision about PAR if we did not make an interview with Derek Sivers, by transforming his answers into advices. One of them was the advice that we should present a single idea, one at a time, and let others (the users of our fun detector) build upon it. In our opinion, PAR is capable of reaching Facebook’s popularity, because every day more and more people realise that saving the planet is more important than self-promotion and Farmville. Imagine how wonderful world it will be if people spend their energy in fun and eco activities instead of trying to make the perfect duck face in front of the mirror!

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