Development of a mobile based birth and funeral event planning application in Bahrain

In decades, the demand for event planning and management fields with specialty niches has extremely increased. Event planning is an important process towards the successful execution of an event as clients struggle to get suitable event managers and service providers for their events. Classification of events is a wide subject at which managerial expertise differs for different event types. Thus, understanding the event type is crucial for efficient collection of client's requirements aiming for client's satisfaction. This research is aimed at developing a mobile application “Emotive Events”, acting as an event planner that maintains time and budget for a private event including funeral considering multiple religions and birth parties and addresses many features such as checklists creation, guest list, religion-based services, online payments, a collaboration of service providers/services that most existing applications typically lack all in one place. The theoretical framework is based on a systematic literature review (SLR) and web content analysis (CA) techniques. For the mobile application development, an Agile system development life cycle (SDLC) methodology was employed at which two questionnaires were conducted, one for collecting user and application requirements, while the other for the mobile application's evaluation. The research outcomes recognized the shortcomings of the currently used event planning applications, informed the requirements of the “Emotive event” mobile application which revealed 86.23% of acceptance in terms of application's usability.