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Manasi Vartak, Tristan Naumann, Chidube Ezeozue
Design
Final Design
Device: We decided to use used 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 by students. 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 and uniformity of the interface.
In our final design, we implemented two views to organize posters on the PosterBoard, one view to add a poster, and a detailed view to interact with the selected poster. We decided against the "Random view" for viewing posters because it did not aid users in finding relevant information.
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We also contemplated saving the sketches as the user sketched instead of waiting till the user was done sketching but that approach was more bug-prone and given the time limitations, we opted for the less bug-prone approach of saving when the user clicked the Save button.
*** Need to talk about how we used RFID reader to remove need for typing ***
- the actual board was not functional until the week before GR5 was due. It was missing a crucial connecting cable to allow the smart board to communicate with the computer. After several tens of hours of conversations with Customer Service and three sets of incorrect cables, we finally got the board working. So resolution, fit to big screen don't happen very well.
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