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Characteristics
- Age varies from 18 to 6555, for both male and female users
- English-speaking
- computer Computer literate
Needs
- Have busy schedules.
- Are interested in socializing and sharing ideas and interests.
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There are several types of users who will use our product. To detail each persona, we interviewed people from each user group:
- - Tim the 1st Year Grad Student (Age 26)
- - Donald the Professor (Age Around 4550-5055)
- - Jeff the 3rd Year Undergrad Student (Age 20?)
- - Jermie the 2nd Year Grad Student (Age 25)
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- To locate a stranger within the same institution, students have to resort to a multitude of resources in order to do so. (Google or MIT directory for to find a person’s office; whereis.mit to locate the physical location of the office. There is a need for a unified directory.)
- There is no clear way to find out a person’s availability based on his/her current location currently .
- There is no clear way to find people with similar interests currently.
2: Vincent the Professor
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 thinks the app can be more useful if it enables him 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.
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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, googleGoogle+, 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.
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Jermie is a 2nd year Graduate student in Chemistry Department. He is done with his Qualification Exam, but he still takes some classes and attends lectures and recitations. He is also TA for a Grad Course. He has a huge research group with multiple sub groups in it. In his research group they have a weekly meeting for the entire group and also many small ones where sub groups meets meet the adviser to give status reports. Because his adviser is a busy person therefore , she has shared her number with all the group members and they give her a call in case urgent discussion is required while she is not around.
Apart from his work, he is interested in working out in gym and has a very social life. Also he happens to be a religious person and goes to church every weekend. He uses Gtalk and phone calls to arrange spontaneous hangouts. He bumps into people sharing his interests at church or other social gatherings that he likes to attend for this very reason. And for discovering new people in his organization MIT he uses MIT People Directory very often, and is very comfortable with it despite the difficult-to-use menus.
Lessons learned
- People who are have been part of this organization MIT for a long enough have come up with different work around for situations such as; arranging a meeting or discovering new people, and use "work-arounds" to arrange meetings or to discover new people. They have grown to accept them. these "work-arounds."
- By offering a If we offer them a more convenient solution packaged in one easy-to-use UI only then they will realize what , people will find new features they wish they had or thought they were missing.
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- - Search for a colleague
- - Edit Online Profile or add further information into it
- - Have spontaneous meeting
- - View Real Visualize nearby friends in real-time visual representation of location of friends
- - View connections between colleagues
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Depending on the Mobility of user, once or several times a day.
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Visualize nearby friends in real-time
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Goal
Enable the ability to locate pre-approved friend(s) on a map view.
Sub Tasks
- Search for a user
- Send friend request using "Add as friend" button.
- When the friend approves or disapproves a request, user will be notified and friend list will be updated accordingly.
- If anyone who belong is added as friend enters a radius of 5 meters near the user, the user will be notified.
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