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Real-time visualization of nearby friends

Goal:

Enable the ability to locate pre-approved friend(s) on a map view

Use Case:

1. You wish to know about the availability of the person based on whether he/she is present in his office
2. You wish to know about locality of colleagues in order to organize impromptu meetings 
3. For finer grained information, the system would display the user's location in text as well.

Preconditions:

• You and your colleagues would have pre-approved the sharing of location information.
• You and your colleagues would have turned on location-sharing

Frequency of use:

Daily

View connections between colleagues

Goal: Show strength of connections between employees based on their interactions and/or teams.

Use Case:

1. Select a group, such as your project team, friends, or department.
2. View the strength of connections between members in the selected group.
3. View the people (outside the group) who have strong connections with members inside the selected group.
4. Select a person and view their profile and major connections.
5. View associations between people based on their teams.

Alternative Use Cases: 

1. Search for a person and be introduced to that person via a mutual connection.
2. Maximize office layout based on teams or any other profile information.

Preconditions:

1. Users approve sharing of their activity with their colleagues.
2. Users team information filled in.

Frequency of use:

Daily or several times weekly.