Scenarios

Poster Creator: Create a Poster

Alice is an administrative assistant in the EECS department at MIT.  Alice is in charge of running department events, including the distinguished lecture series.  Alice is currently designing a poster for a talk by noted UI researcher, Bob, in 2 weeks.  Alice wants people to see the poster and attend the event.  In addition, Alice would like to know know how many people are planning to attend, in order to order food for the event.  Currently estimating is an inexact science because Alice does not know how popular the event will be.

Alice is designing the poster for the event in the program she always uses for designing posters, Adobe Publisher.  Alice just heard about a new service, RScanVP.  RScanVP allows Alice to put a QR code on her posters to make it easy for people to add the event to her calendar and give Alice statistics on how many people added the event to their calendars.  Alice goes to RScanVP.com.  She then clicks on "Create a QR code."  She enters the title of the event, the location, as well as the start and end times of the event.  Alice then hits save, and a QR code is generated.  Alice can change the color of the QR code to match the design of her poster.  Alice then downloads the QR code as a PNG file and imports it into Adobe Publisher.  Alice also receives an email with a link to edit the QR code in the future, as well as a website where she or a colleague can see how many people RSVPed to the event.  Alice then prints 100 copies of the poster and posts it around MIT.

Poster Viewer: Add event to calendar

Charlie is a student in EECS at MIT.  He is walking down the hall when a poster catches his eye.  It's an advertisement for a talk given by a UI Researcher named Bob next week.  Charlie is intrigued; he is interested in Bob's work.  Charlie whips out his Android to add the event to his calendar.  Charlie notices the QR code on the poster has the label "Add this event to your calendar."  Charlie was going to enter all the details manually, but he thinks the QR code might be faster.  Charlie launches his Barcode Scanner app and takes a picture of the QR code.  Charlie is then brought to a mobile page on RScanVP.com.  He clicks a button to add the event to his calendar.  The link opens up his phone's Calendar app and adds the event to his calendar.

View RSPVs

A day before the event, Alice needs to place an order for food. She goes back in her email and finds the link from RScanVP.com. She opens the link and sees that 50 people have added the event to her calendar. She knows that not everyone used RScanVP and that some people who added the event to their calendars might not attend, so Alice decides to order food for 75 people.  Alice is happy because she previously had no clue how popular the event would be.