Abstract• Mosaic is a visual relationship organizer.

• As you maintain contact with a person, the contact will remain crystal clear.

• If you neglect a relationship, well...sad faces are bound to appear!

• Maintain relationships by text, email, phone, or physical interaction.

• Mosaic will automatically track as much as possible by monitoring your contact list and your activity.

• Use the simple interface to create mosaics for home, work, family, etc.

• The frequency slider bar gives you simple setting changes that customize how often you need to interact to maintain your relationship strength with a person.

• Set frequency to 60 days for Uncle Bob, and, of course, 1 day for your mom!

• With notifications on, you can see from the home screen that someone is losing touch with you.

• Mosaic creates a beautiful, visual way for you to stay on

Creating a mosaic (contact group…tile!)

Mosaic menu options

Mosaic Text All/Email All Fancy feature!

Adding contacts in Mosaic

To allow faster search throughout many contacts,a cool “hold-scroll-bar” feature was implementedthat allows search of contacts by chronological order.

The contact frequency/detail screen

There are “sad face thumbnails” associated with the contacts. This indicates that you have to touch base with that contact based on the frequency set by you that you want the app to notify you to contact that person.

You can text or call to touch-base with the contact, or in the event where you would meet in real life…well, that’s what the manual “Real Contact” button was added for!

Push Notifications & Sweet Alerts

To enhance the app even more visually, Sweet Alerts animations were added to “spice it up”!

Fun facts

• You can click on the “i” (info) circle on a push notification to turn off notifications, though this may vary by phone.

• The tracking occurs in days; it is done this way because testing revealed that tracking the phone hourly will make it very slow as it would require intensive amount of RAM memory usage. Since we wanted to make Mosaic as pleasant to the user as possible, we decided to let it track by days instead. This way, pressure isn't placed on the memory and phone operation will remain smooth.

• The notifications are displayed by mosaic, instead of each individual contact. In a scenario where a user may have say 50 contacts whom they have not contacted within the allocated frequency setting they chose, there would literally be 50 notifications...and that's not reasonable. Hence why notifications are displayed by mosaic.

Conclusion

• The overall app required lots of effort to complete. From knowing nothing about android as a team, today, Mosaic is born into an increasingly social networking world that sees the potential to shine onward and rival its fellow social networking apps one day.

• But for now, lets just ponder upon how Mosaic creates a beautiful, visual way for us to stay on...and connected forever ~