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- - Tim the 1st Year Grad Student (Age 26)
- - Donald Paula the Professor (Age Around 50-55)
- - 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 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 .
- There is no clear way to find people with similar interests.
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Paula the Professor
Vincent wants his research Paula is a Professor and has a research group of 15 students with sub-groups for various projects. She wants her research sub-group to interact with each other by having discussions and sharing ideas. She would like to see which students are working together on a project and who they are collaborating with across the departments or research groups. She also finds it useful to have a summary of seating plan to see how the sub-teams are spread out across the office space. This will be particularly helpful while planning relocation so that people working in the same group can be located in proximity.
She 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 articlesseminars on last minute, so he She wants to be able to easily forward this information to his students. He also wants his invite her students to these events. She also wants her students' daily schedules to be easily accessible to his administratorher administrative secretary, 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 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.her research group.
Lessons learned
- 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.
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