ziga-vaupotic/tivoli-v-oblaku

In this project we were exploring the possibility of creating an application that is a useful asset to the learning process at GJP. The goal of the application was to create a tool that could help students and other users learn about our indigenous and other interesting species of trees in Tivoli park and stimulate their love of trees. The core of our application are photographs and descriptions of the plants. Besides the map of trees the application contains interesting and educational quizzes. During the process of building the project we learned about the workflow of creating a product of this scale. The research "Tivoli in the Cloud" represents and implements the basic steps in the design and development of mobile applications intended for a wide range of users with special emphasis on learning about physical space and its givens. It offers significantly more than scrolling the screen and wasting valuable time on fruitless tasks in the sense of “just to pass the time”. It invites us out there, where we meet the real space and its phenomena, where we become active participants in this space. During the research faced the real challenges of ICT, where the selection of appropriate tools, learning about algorithms and programming knowledge are only part of the solution. An important part of our research effort was devoted to the methodology of data collection and maintenance. For all levels of data collection, editing and maintenance, we have determined the most appropriate procedures that significantly contribute to work efficiency. The result of the research project is, on the one hand, a smartphone application and, on the other hand, an application database in which tree data is stored. While not visible at first glance, just by replacing the database of our application, it may be used in many different ways, rather than just this specific task it was made for. We consider that an important achievement of our research work