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iLife Tamkang

Date 2012-11-27 5706 Clicks

LIAO SHIH-CHI

Tamkang University recently released a new application called iLife. In the two weeks since its release, it has already had over 5,000 downloads and been used over 140,000 times. The app is Tailor-made for Tamkang students, consisting of nine separate functions aimed at making TKU life just that little bit more convenient. The application allows students to view the latest TKU news, registration systems, the real-time position of nearby buses, the number of vacant seats at TKU intern labs, provides a live video stream of several sites around the Tamsui Campus, a campus map, a class time graph, a personalized student class schedule, and a list of buildings (and their code numbers) on the Tamsui Campus.

Creating the new app involved close collaboration between the TKU Chief Information Officer, Dr. Ming-dar Huang, as well as two graduate students from the TKU Department of Information Management: Hong Wei-Ze and Li Tsong-Wei. Dr. Huang explained that the application’s live video stream will display the Red 27 bus station, the running track, the volleyball courts, basketball courts, and others. To enable this function, the Office of Information Services installed six cameras around the campus. Ming-dar Huang said that the live stream was set up with personal privacy considerations in mind. Therefore, users of the app will be able to see a general picture of sites around the campus but images of individual people will be unclear.

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