PosterBoard -

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GR6 - User Testing

Manasi Vartak, Tristan Naumann, Chidube Ezeozue

Design

Final Design

Device: We decided to use a SmartBoard for our implementation instead of a web or mobile interface because user studies indicated that users would not go out of their way to get information about events through a website or mobile app. In fact, the events.mit.edu website which is a central repository for events is hardly used. We envision SmartBoards (or a similar devices) being placed at the current locations of poster boards in Stata. We also chose to allow adding of posters through the smart board as opposed to having a separate web interface for simplicity. 

In our final design, we settled implemented for two main views for the PosterBoard:to organize posters on the PosterBoard. We decided against the "Random view" because it did not aid in finding more relevant information.

• Calendar View: Posters Calendar View where the posters are displayed by week and users can either scroll to a week or select it off a calendar
• Similar Events View where the posters are grouped by similar events

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