Glossary

Glossary

Roles and Basic Functions

Item	Definition
App	Refer to this application product, a user can view, create, edit moods events using it. See mood event.
User	A person who would like to use the app, each user name is unique, also known as participant.
Current user	The user name is remembered by the app in the login activity. Current user can edit mood event posted by himself/herself, can view detail information of other user’s mood event, without ability to edit it.
Participant	See user.
Post	Refer to the action that the user click the post button on the edit page, after this action a mood will be added to the database, if the device is online it will be added to the online database. Other wise it will be stored locally and wait to be uploaded.
Posting	Refer to posted Mood Event.
Mood event	An collection of information which contains a date, an user name, a mood state created by an user. The user can also optionally add trigger,social situation or a location to the mood event.
Date	A date of user option.
Mood state	User’s emotional state, can be anger, confusion, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, shame, and surprise. Eight in total. Each mood have its unique corresponding color and emoticon.
Color	Each mood correspond to a unique color, the color is going to be the color of the pin in map, theme color of the list view.
Trigger	The reason of user’s mood, this is optional to an mood event, may contain text (no more than 20 characters or 3 words) or picture (user can upload a picture of any size but the app will compress the picture to be smaller than 65536 bytes to cope with requirements established by system administrator).
System administrator	An person who have the right to manage the user name information, mood event information. He/she is also allowed to change all other application’s function.
Location	Optional to an mood event, user can chose his/her current location or other location.
Edit	The action of user changing attributes of a mood event, all the attributes are changeable. User can chose to post or discard an edit to an mood event.
Delete	User can delete an mood event in the edit function, deleted mood event will be deleted from local database and online when internet connection is available.
Developer	A person who is participating or has participated the creation and maintenance of this app.

Technical terms

Item	Definition
Use Case	Description of a task that an user performs with the product to achieve a certain goal.
User Story	A short, structured description of a product requirement that outlines who wants the requirement, what the requirement is, and why the requirement has value.
Device / Emulator	A place where this app runs, an device refers to an actual phone. Emulator refers to virtual phone environment created by Android Studio.
Android Studio	An software platform which developer writes and test code on.
Card	An rectangle area show in main page. Each card refer to on mood event. The layout of a card would be : User name on top Edit button on top right corner Picture in middle Reason text underneath picture Date underneath reason text
Text edit box/ Input box	A box user can enter text in.
Button	A small area user can click on to achieve different functions.
Click	Touch on the specified area.
Tab	An small area contains a short text or an small icon which describes function of a subpage. Tabs on the same page refer to subpages with similar but different functions.
Drop down	When clicked, a list of different options will show allow which user to choose from.
Pin	A button with a mood color which user can click on. Detailed mood event information will show after the click. Current user’s pin is in circle shape, other user’s pin is in reverse water drop shape.
Check Box	When user clicks, the empty box will fill up and the corresponding function will be enabled.
Dialogue	A small area contains information or questions that appears on a User Interface
Go to	A selected page will show.