In planning how we would implement a LeapIn.it prototype, we agree that we should use similar development environments to prevent any mistakes or unforeseen incompatibilities. We agreed that we would use the following tools: Git – allows us to collaborate and manage versions of code GitHub – a website where Git repositories can be stored centrally. This ensures our code is… Read more →
The purpose of this post is to explain the privacy issues that are considered in designing LeapIn.it system. The following sections demonstrate the privacy related issues from five perspectives which are the personal information, information security, visibility of profile pages, privacy policy and cookie policy. Personal information In LeapIn.it, no personally identifiable information is collected from the users except their… Read more →
LeapIn.it will allow people to “leap in” to rooms based around niche interests simply by scanning barcodes (or QR-codes) that may be found on relevant material (such as books and posters). However, it is reasonable to expect that one subject may have multiple barcodes. For example, the DVD and Bluray releases of the film Inception may have different barcodes. In this case,… Read more →
