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Joe starts from the home screen and clicks
 on the tab “Commercial Contacts”. He is
then taken to the screen shown here that can
be considered the “Home Screen” to handle
his commercial contacts. Here, he can view
various categories of products on a wheel.

Since Joe is at
a ski resort and wants to buy some gear,
he selects the wedge titled “Sporting Goods” and is taken to the next screen that shows
him the list of stores selling sporting goods
and having offers.

He can then click on the company providing the offers and see the details of the offers. To help Joe understand the exact information he would be sharing, LocaShare displays his
current information as an example.

Joe can choose to accept or delete the offer by pressing
the “Accept” or “Delete” buttons respectively.
 
Once he accepts an offer, he
would see a summary of the information he is about to share with Rei on the screen. He can choose to create a category in which to save Rei as a
contact. He finishes the process by pressing the “Save Contact” button or cancel
the offer by clicking “Cancel”.

Pros:
Before confirming the relationship, the design gives
feedback to the user about the
location that will be shared.


Cons:
The numbers in circles could be misleading. Are they based on the number of offers in that
category? What about offers that
can span multiple categories?

Pros:
The wheel analogy of categorization of offers
seems to be useful because users can quickly navigate to the type of
offer they are looking for The numbers do not make sense as they are not labeled or defined on the screen.


Cons:
Pros:
Have to go through four
screens to establish the commercial contact relationship.
Cons:
Having a search mechanism will be helpful since search is
quicker than trying to locate a type of offer that does not neatly fit into any
pre-defined category.

Pros:

If you over-share
information, the only way
to cancel that is by deleting
the contact relationship. Not very efficient in that respect.

Cons:

Pros:

Options and controls are clearly visible.

Cons:

Since Joe wants to modify the location permissions
for Bob, he first searches for Bob on the “Home
Screen” for social contacts. After he comes to
Bob’s profile, he clicks on Bob’s icon/photo and
comes to this screen. Here he view the amount
and type of information that Bob can view about
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allowed Bob to view his aggregated information.]
Joe can see that Bob can see his current location
as the lat/long in Cambridge, MA (his current
location). He also sees the pie chart/wheel that
describes the categorization of places that Bob
was able to view about him. He can now choose
to modify the permissions by clicking on the button
called “Modify Permissions” or can choose to
return by clicking “Cancel”. Once he clicks “Modify
Permissions”, he taken to the permissions sketch
described in task 1.

Pros:

Cons:

The task is not very easy to
learn in these two
slides, since the bulk of the editing
happens in the permissions screen.

Pros:

Cons:

May be helpful to have a
"Cancel
This Option" button beside the
specific/aggregate information
display. That way, the user
does not have to go to the permissions
screen to cancel
aggregation option (for example).

Pros:

Cons:

No irreversible action
possible in these two screens.

Pros:

Cons:

The data that the
social contact
(user's
friend, for example)
can see is very visible
and easy to understand.