Students and professors can now inform you by Mobile App

Shortly after the initial offering of the new app the Mittweida application for mobile phones(JIAYU G3 buy) and tablet PC has already been about 500 times downloaded from the Internet to the devices down. Even visitors from the U.S., Thailand and China have the free program now on your smartphone and can be as mobile call including the timetables or contact details and office hours of professors and have the Get Directions to the auditorium on the campus map.

There's another specialty in comparison to other application providers: In Mittweida students have even developed this mobile(JIAYU G2) Internet application. "We want to showcase the strengths of his own training at the site Mittweida" said Jana Mockingly by the leading marketing department of the university. Have developed the app students from various courses of computer science and communication studies. They worked it since the beginning, led by Professor Wilfried Schubert, the marketing department of the university and the data center staff. "In particular, the students of the 2011 newly introduced computer science program in Media & Interactive Entertainment were able to collaborate in a productive project," said Schubert.

The main target group for the application are the students themselves, you get similar to the website of the institution answers to the questions of university life, such as: What is there today in the cafeteria to eat? Where can I get my contacts from the university administration? What's on the schedule? Where can I go shopping in town? Such neudeutsch "Point of Interest" above points on the map now shows the phone(JIAYU G1) to as much as other interesting destinations for students in the city and calculated the same route from the campus right away. Transferred to the phone via the Internet in addition to the news in text and image and the program of the university radio.

But the professors are available to the project to be open. "This is after all, a desire to return to the Chancellor," said Jana Mockingly. And like Schubert confirmed the app will also believed in his colleagues in the run but were also students were asked whether they wish for such a mobile application. Demand was high, according to Jana Mockingly, and they even include proposals for further development, such as a kind of electronic cheat sheet. The course, so although it may not be met. But the functionality of the app is to be extended with modules, for example the so-called e-learning (electronic based learning). Imagine, according to Professor Schubert is also an extension to self-developed games functions. The creativity of the students Mittweidaer seems no limit.