Prototype Description

I plan on designing a facebook application that can monitor several appliances, letting the user know how much power they are using, their average power use and money save while using the application.  The user can also compare power savings between their facebook friends, encouraging the user to try and save power as well as use the application more. The user can also get “achievements” for completing certain tasks, like saving a certain amount of power or being ranked highly among friends. These achievements should serve as a reward for saving power. The user can also see detailed data about their power use under a tab called “stats”. The reason why I wish to use facebook as the platform for my app is because facebook is the most used social networking site in the world, meaning that my application can be widely used. My user group will be young adults that wish to save power and money. Not only will my app make monitoring energy use easy but also fun and competitive with the use of leader boards and achievements. I will make a simple interface that is easy to understand and look appealing. Social media is a powerful tool and I wish to utilise it to make saving power easy, accessible, simple and fun