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- - Tim the 1st Year Grad Student (Age 26)
- - Paula Abigail 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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Abigail the Professor
Paula Abigail 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.
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