Abstract
Objectives: To propose a mobile application (Jam@), which means gathering in Arabic, to provide a solution to fill the gap in social and lifestyle applications for organizing events or gatherings, especially in Arabic. Methods: Jam@ (which means gatherings) was developed as an Android mobile application in Arabic. It was evaluated through different system and user acceptance tests. Findings: The results of the tests were promising, and the application has potential as a small entrepreneur project. Keywords: Gatherings; Social events; Event planning; Mobile applications
Highlights
There is an increasing awareness that social factors, such as our social relationships, shape our wellbeing[1,2]
Jam@ was evaluated through several tests, which include system testing, with its different components, and user acceptance testing (UAT)
System testing comprises tests conducted on a complete, integrated system to evaluate the compliance of the system with its specified requirements
Summary
There is an increasing awareness that social factors, such as our social relationships, shape our wellbeing[1,2]. Gatherings are a part of the culture in Saudi Arabia and in most Arabic communities, people like to gather, meet each other, and enjoy time together, as a family or as friends. This style of gatherings is usually called Jamat “ ” تاعمج the name of our application (Jam@). The results showed that 85% of the participants do join a family\friends gathering at least once a month, and 15% attend such gatherings twice a week Most of such events are usually accomplished after someone first takes the initiative to call for a gathering, and organizes it, which is not an easy task
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