Some feedbacks from our friends

Most feedbacks were like the problem we already talked about in class or office hour. One useful comment was to register the user with phone number. Then, the user will have an option to press 0 and directly access the information of the parking lot status that the user pre-set via web page. We actually thout about including this feature and we can easily identify and store the callerID using Voxeo Designer. However, in order to test this option, we are probably going to have to have a data base. We will decide later this week to whether include this option or not.

Updated Voxeo Designer project for Demo

We've finally created a demo using Voxeo Designer.

Try to cal l 202-683-9117 and follow the prompt message.

We have not completed menu yet. However, if keep pressing 1 to look at the parking lot in revelle college, you will finally hear the message "Available parking space for p 100 is some. If you want to go back to main menu say main or press 1, otherwise you can press 2 to hang up thank you." We still need to finish up other sub-menu and re-prompts message and so on.

Also, we are still not sure how to access the parking lot data. One of the step in this designer has the option to access data by specifying the URL. At this point, we probably need to set up a web page containing a sample data. We are not very familiar with web-page or web-server. Next week, we are going to move on to create a admin page and work on accessing the data.

Voxeo Designer

We just found out that Voxeo website has the icon based visual design tool. This tool has many powerful feature built-in such as making a choice by pressing diffrent touch pad or accessing the webserver. We are still learing more about this tool and this tool will help a lot creating out demo system.

Two problems

1. When the nearest parking lot is full

The solution we came up with this problem is to direct the user
to next nearest parking lot (e.g. if parking lot for Calit2(P502) is full, direct it to warren lecture hall parking lot(P401))
If this parking lot is also full, direct user to the previous menu of choosing other college,
or building.



2. Refreshing parking lot status

We did some research on refreshing xml files and direct xml file to specified website.
In case of directing xml file to specified website, users can choose a menu from the
website (e.g. nba.com, they can hear results of different games via phone)
Needs to use php and/or java script along with xml.
Still need to come up with how to refresh the data received from Catherine's black box.

State Chart Diagram

This is the rough State Chart Diagram drawn using starUML(Free UML tool).

This week, we learned about the basics of UML specifications and UML tools to visualize our menu. At this point, we are not very clear how to deal with the parking lots that are full.