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• Overseeing students' research activities can be time-consuming. The app can help facilitate communication with his research group and between members in the research group.
• The app will be even more useful if it includes people from outside MIT.

Jeff the Undergrad

Jeff is a 3rd year undergrad student in the EECS department.  He attends classes, lectures, recitations and often needs to meet with Professors, friends, and other groups for various meetings.  His primary method for getting contact information is through Facebook or faculty members personal pages.  His primary method of contacting others is through online messaging (e-mail, Facebook, google+, etc.) or text messaging.  He doesn't like the current MIT directory page as it doesn't allow for filtering.  Unfortunately, these electronic methods of communication are not always sufficiently fast and it may be difficult to find contact information through personal pages and directories.  

Lessons learned from the Undergrad

• There are many indirect methods of contacting people, which can be time consuming.  This is problematic in urgent situations.
• Current directories give no information on personal interests, this option with a filter would promote interest/hobby based communications.

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