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Vincent wants his research group to interact with each other by sharing ideas and receiving feedback. He wants to see how frequently his group members are meeting with each other, and with other research groups. Vincent sometimes comes across interesting research presentations and articles, so he wants to be able to easily forward this information to his students. He also wants his students' daily schedules to be easily accessible to his administrator, so that she can schedule meetings for his research group. Vincent often meets with people from visiting universities and companies, so he also wants the tool to help him find and locate people outside of MIT. Of course, Vincent wants the tool to be efficient, so that his group can still concentrate on finishing research work. He also expressed usefulness in being able to view how the sub-teams are spread out across the office space, perhaps to facilitate people in the same group being located close to one another.
Lessons learned from the Professor
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Goal: Show strength of connections between employees based on their interactions and/or teams.
Use Case:
- Select a group, such as your project team, friends, or department.
- View the strength of connections between members in the selected group.
- View the people (outside the group) who have strong connections with members inside the selected group.
- Select a person and view their profile and major connections.
- View associations between people based on their teams.
Alternative Use CaseCases:
- Search for a person and be introduced to that person via a mutual connection.
- Maximize office layout based on teams or any other profile information.
Preconditions:
- Users approve sharing of their activity with their colleagues.
- Users team information filled in.
Frequency of use: Daily or several times weekly.