Aplicativo crowdsourcing para localização de serviços especializados em bem-estar animal: guiapet

Abstract

The mobile computing has brought a great technological progress and because of that its considered the forth computing evolution. In this context, mobile devices, along with the available applications, have transformed the communication and execution of daily tasks. There are several areas that applications work, one of them it's the human-animal relationship. There are many animal protection groups which organized their work through facebook pages. On several occasions, people requesting location of specialized services, especially veterinary clinics and pet stores However, these pages work chronologically and because of that information is often lost over time. As a result, it has developed application for location of these services. By placing the information in another format gives it greater visibility , ease of access and better management of information. It was developed client-server system where the client-side application is to locate specialized services and server-side data storage. Data analysis demonstrated the feasibility of the application and its meeting the demand needs in the area.