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UCMobile Money Transfer Background: Increasingly, young people do not carry cash on their persons. They use a credit card to pay for everything they need as they are accepted in any establishment any student would go. It might seem ridiculous to an older generation but young people today often only carry enough cash to leave a tip and they often have no way of exchanging money with each other. If a single bill comes at a restaurant and one person agrees to pay with their credit card, the others often do not have the cash to pay the person. All businesses take a credit card but no individual can. Young people do, however, carry their cell phones almost everywhere and because cell phones are now ubiquitous, they could conceivably function in place of cash. Problem Statement: A simple and inexpensive (or free) way of exchanging relatively small amounts of money is needed. Cell phones are used universally and can be used as an interface for exchanging money not just between individuals and commercial entities but between pairs of individuals. The Bearcat Campus Card system is an ideal source and destination of funds as the infrastructure is already widely used by students and owned by the university. Team Members: Jonathan Warren warrenj0@email.uc.edu Faculty Advisor: Dr. Fred Annexstein Goal: The goal of this project is to develop the interface and server software to allow for the transfer of money between Bearcat Campus Card accounts using UCMobile cell phones as a simple and secure interface. Subgoals:
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