Vanderbilt Mobile Apps Team

An Overview & How to Work with VMAT

Mon, Oct 4, 2010

zach.mccormick@vanderbilt.edu

Who We Are

Working together to learn about cutting edge technology

Mobile App Development

Smartphone Research

Reaching out to Vanderbilt

Accomplishments

Dining App, Events App, Campus Maps App, Commencement App

Over 4k downloads Smartphone research

Goals for This Year

Develop apps and begin to reach out to Vanderbilt

Develop ourselves as an organization with a good leaders and a strong sense of teamwork

Develop a system to find funds and create a budget

Begin to create our VMAT 'brand'

Future Goals

Maintain relationships with various groups at Vanderbilt

Develop cutting-edge applications

Establish Vanderbilt University as a player on the vanguard of cutting edge smartphone, tablet, and consumer apps

Maintain resources for smartphone programming education online

Maintain a large bank of reusable code so we can quickly develop professional apps for Vanderbilt groups

VMAT Since June

Hamilton Turner trained me to lead VMAT Spring 2010

Met with representatives and leaders of many groups at Vanderbilt

Spoken to several entrepreneurs and start-up companies to get an idea of smartphones in the business world

Smartphone research at ISIS

How We Work - Briefly

Heads of platforms Directors Team Leaders Research Group

(future!)

Our Resources

AT&T University Developer program

Partnerships and agreements with Microsoft, Apple, Google

VUSE and ITS support

Several development phones

Some literature and textbooks

Online resources

Development Cycles

Generally make Android first, iPhone second

Working to include BlackBerry and Windows Mobile

Build cycles - 1 per semester

Agile/open-source

Groups Contacted

Vanderbilt Brain Institute

Vanderbilt Neuroscience

Vanderbilt Career Center

Eskind Biomed Library

VUPD

Vanderbilt Web Communications

Vanderbilt Student Government

Pearescope** Nemonics Media** Goba** Aloompa**

How to Reach Out to Us

mobileapps@list.vanderbilt.edu Work with our platform leaders to develop app

ideas (possibilities) Can generally get working in one semester's time