Group Members
- Oliver Song
- Marco Alagna
Problem statement
Generating viral content for the internet is currently an inefficient process involving either photoshop or web services (www.memegenerator.net). Furthermore, they only
User Analysis
Our users come from a variety of backgrounds. Our most representative user demographic will have:
- spent at least 2 years understanding internet culture
- high school or college level education
- own a smartphone (iPhone primarily)
- either gender
- a sense of humor
Alternatively our target user population can be split into two groups: those who understand internet culture and those who do not.
Those who understand internet culture:
- will have an understanding of which expressions can go with which captions
- will have a quick and accurate judgement of what will and will not be funny to the general internet population
- will be best suited for a traditional meme maker as in "take picture, add caption"
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Use case:
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Person A is a person of this
Those who do not:
- will not understand what the general internet population would find funny
- will be best suited for nontraditional viral content generation, such as "video filtering" or "song making", which make use of simpler emotions that do not employ much of the "meta-humor" in many internet memes
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Use case:
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Person B is a person of this
Task Analysis
Source of humor (photo, video, or sound, or any data)
- methods of capturing data
Processing data
- cropping
- clipping
- etc
Labeling/categorizing humor
- captioning
- creating gif
- etc other labeling
Publishing
- Social networks
- Account management
- Syncronization
- Tagging
Viewing ( optional )
- view your uploads in one feed online
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are restricted to "caption image" type memes. This is not representative of the pool of meme types actually on the internet. Finally, this method of meme generation is not mobile; this is particularly egregious because the large majority of meme source content comes from mobile devices.
We find this to be onix-eptable.
GR1- Project Proposal & Analysis
GR2- Designs
GR3- Paper Prototyping
GR4- Computer Prototyping
GR6--User Testing
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