Tom Van Riper of Fobes.com views the New York Jets Touchscreen Command Center in action.

During the Jets’ opening Monday night loss to the Baltimore Ravens, executives from Roundarch, a Chicago-based builder of web and mobile applications, showed off the new revenue-tracking device they built for Johnson and Jets brass in the company’s Meadowlands Stadium suite. It’s a 42-inch touchscreen that spits out up-to-the minute sales figures for concessions, tickets, parking, and merchandise. Call it the Woody Johnson command center.

Read the full blog post on Forbes.com.

The Jets are also independently working with technology providers FanVision and Roundarch. The former offers handheld devices to fans that show video of the game from different angles. The latter provides real-time stadium data to the Jets in an effort to enhance the fan experience.

“Technology is key to the operation of this building,” Jets owner Woody Johnson said.

Read the full article on NJ.com.

For the last few months my team and I at Roundarch have been working with Bloomberg Sports on Decision Maker for iPad.  We’re happy to announce it’s now live and available for purchase from Apple’s App Store.

Decision Maker is an application that uses custom algorithms to deliver quantified head-to-head analysis of your favorite NFL players to help you manage your lineups each week. The Bloomberg Score, or B-Score, is based on factors that include the player’s Performance, Opponent Matchup, Team Support and Game Conditions for that week.  The player with the higher B-Score is the better bet that week.

We tackled the project holistically, from concept and user experience flow to the user interface design, iconography and  branding, down to development within the iOS environment.  One of the goals throughout the project was balancing simplicity and complexity.  It had to be simple enough for novice fantasy players but also provide the complexity and details advanced fantasy players demand.

We encounter this simplicity as soon as the application loads – select one player from column 1 and one player from column 2 (or use the auto-complete fields in the middle) and click “Run The Numbers.”  Alternatively, you can refine your search from the entire NFL to a specific position or team through the settings button at the top of each table.

Once we “Run The Numbers,” we’re taken to a head-to-head view of the results of our player comparison.  Once again, we start out in the top half of the interface with the most essential information – do I sit this player or do I start this player?

As we move down to the lower half of the screen, we can view the details that make up the scores.  Even for those who might not initially want to see or understand the data presented below, the interface is designed to encourage users to drill down and explore the various factors. Everything is tap-friendly and provides more context and information – from the risk/reward chart overlay to the info tool tips, to the radar chart tips.

A big thank you to everyone at Roundarch and Bloomberg Sports who made this application a reality.

iTunes App Store: Decision Maker – Football 2010 for iPad

Recently, the Chicago Flex users group raffled off two tickets to the 360|Flex conference.  I was lucky enough to be one of the winners! The conference will be held in Washington DC this year, from September 19^th – 22^nd.

This year Roundarch will be one of the sponsors alongside Adobe, O’Reilly and APress to name a few. As well as sponsoring the event, Roundarch will have a booth set up for the many social events in between the scheduled seminars and workshops. Roundarch rock stars Adam Flater and Jesse Freeman are also scheduled to speak.

I am very excited to have the opportunity to attend this unique community event and there will be a lot to gain from it. This conference provides an exceptional opportunity for Flex novices, and ninjas alike, to learn from community experts and industry leading engineers. With the tremendous line up, attendees will also have the rare opportunity to meet the authors of the great blogs and articles that we as developers come to rely upon.

Some of my top level goals:

- Be a sponge and absorb as much knowledge as possible.

- Heckle Adam and Jesse during their presentations (just kidding)

- Meet Doug McCune, because he is hilarious.

- Represent Roundarch!!!

Stay tuned for my detailed re-cap after the event. For more info on the conference see the links below.

About 360|Flex

Schedule

Speakers

Chicago Flex

Chicago Flex(LinkedIn)

“360|Flex is the first and still the best Adobe Flex developer conference in the world.’”

The Jets also are trying out new technology in the skybox this season. Team owner Woody Johnson will be testing a touchscreen device to keep track of various game-day operations, such as which concessions and merchandise are selling fast, ticketing information and if there’s a jam in the Meadowlands parking lot.

The touchscreen “command center” — built by design agency Roundarch — is a first for an NFL team.

“Woody loves technology and wanted access to the entire stadium’s data flow in real time to oversee everything that’s happening,” Sheely said. “If each game is three hours and there’s only ten games, that gives us only 30 hours of action to get it right for our fans. We don’t want to have any lost opportunities, so having the device at our fingertips is key.”

Johnson said the new technology has the potential to revolutionize how NFL teams manage in-game operations in the future.

“The application that Roundarch is developing for us will help us to understand, analyze and then improve the experience each and every time fans come to the stadium and interact with our team,” he told TechNewsDaily.

Read the full article on TechNewsDaily.

Roundarch has partnered with the  New York Jets to produce a touchscreen command center that provides real-time stadium and game data, allowing the New York Jets owner, Woody Johnson, to monitor fan experience and make important operational decisions during game time.

For more information read the article by Austin Carr on FastCompany.com.

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