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• Casual User/Concertgoer

  • Find concerts specific to my interests (location, pricing, artist popularity, etc.)

    • Goal

      • Find concerts available that match the user's interests (including price, location, and other administrative criteria)
        • each criteria is a little bit dependent on other ones (willing to pay more/go farther for some concerts)

    • Frequency of Use

      • A few times a month, to see what is available

    • Subtasks

      • Find candidates for interesting concerts
      • Keep interesting concerts somewhere to refer to later

    • Preconditions

      • Have preferences for artists/genres, pricing, or location radius

    • Notes from interview

      • Users we spoke to mentioned the current difficulty in filtering by age restrictions. This is especially important in Boston, which is home to 30 universities, and thus many college students under 21.
      • One user mentioned that Ticketmaster only allows for filtering by a single criteria (location or price, but not both). Last.fm allows filtering by genre criteria and general location, but doesn't provide price information.
      • All interfaces only allow filtering.  Users' needs are a little more vague sometimes: "For most concerts, I'm only willing to pay a certain amount, but sometimes, I'm ok with paying a little more for bands I'm really into."

  • Provide feedback for concerts that you’ve attended

    • Goal

      • Keeping track of concerts you have attended, let friends and other users know what you thought about these concerts

    • Frequency of Use

      • A few times a month, or as often as the user attends concerts.

    • Subtasks

      • Find concert that you’ve attended
      • Enter in feedback (thoughts/reviews/etc) about the concert

  • Indicate concerts that you are interested in attending to friends

    • Goal

      • Let friends know what types of concerts you are interested in.

    • Frequency of Use

      • A few times a month

    • Subtasks

      • See what groups of friends are interested in, so you can enjoy concerts as a group.
      • Find what concerts a specific friend is interested in, or would be likely to be interested in, so you can invite individuals.

    • Notes from interview:

      • A user mentioned that the most important aspect of going to concerts is going to them with friends, and that a “social aspect” would be key to ConcertBOS.
      • One young man stated that he actually enjoyed concerts a great deal, but that each step that went towards going to a concert, ie, keeping track of when bands he liked were in the area, and then finding friends to go with him to these concerts, involved so much tedious searching and planning that he was lucky to make it to one or two concerts a year. He said that even something that would allow him to simply see concerts that other friends were planning on going to would be enough to convince him to go to more concerts, since the burden of finding the concert would be removed.
      • One user stated that it would be very helpful to be able to see what concerts friends or perhaps even girls one liked would be interested in going to, in order to be able to invite them, or be invited.

• Musician (concert discovery)

  • Find a concert to find inspiration in

    • Frequency

      • Few times a month

    • Subtasks

      • Find other artists whose work I could draw from
      • Decide if the venue is worth going to

  • Find concerts specific to my interests (location, pricing, artist popularity, etc.)

    • Same subtasks as casual user, with preferences leaning also into specific criteria like quality of sound engineering of band, reputation as musicians, acoustics of venue, etc. 

  • Find friends with similar musical tastes to attend concerts with

    • Subtasks

      • Find friends with similar musical tastes
      • Of these friends, decide which ones will be able to have a good conversation about music with you afterward and be fun to hang out with.
      • Invite these friends to attend a concert with you, or at least indicate that you are interested in attending the concert to them.

• Artist

  • Give fans information about your upcoming performances.

    • Frequency

      • Weekly

    • Subtasks

      • Input time/place of concerts that your band will be performing
      • Input genre and music excerpts
      • Create artist profile

• Club owner

  • Read about your venue and get feedback

    • Frequency

      • Weekly (as often as new concert bookings trickle in)

    • Subtasks

      • Take note of the more well received concerts
      • Keep track of when and where artists of interest perform
      • Optional: input genre

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