Expect Us
Group Members
- Michael Glombicki (mglombi@mit.edu)
- Daniel Hawkins (hwkns@mit.edu)
- Tyler Thompson (wilo@mit.edu)
- TA: _ ( Juho Kim (juhokim@mit.edu)
Problem Statement
Due to their organic nature, activists groups are often disorganized and take significant effort to plan rallies or protests. Furthermore it is sometimes difficult for interested activists as potential recruits to find an event that fits their cause of choice. Without a common medium for like-minded activists, current events must be organized haphazardly with social networking tools. |
Target Users
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Most people don't consider themselves activists, but every once in a while an issue will pop up that will motivate a given person to seek out a change. These people may not know how to contact their representatives, and if they get frustrated they might give up. |
Proposed Solution
A centralized medium for activist to find events that best fit their preferred causesquick and easy website that allows users to find and contact their representatives with minimum effort.
GR1 -
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There are three main features to our Activism Program that will satisfy a majority of our users' needs:
- View existing events
- Create new events
- Provide a layer of security
View existing events:
- Goal: Allow the user to easily sort, filter, and view existing events
- Subtask: Navigate to Google Maps widget
- Subtask: Select filters
- Subtask: View event's information
- Precondition: Have clicked on that group's pin on the map or name on the list
Create new events:
- Goal: Allow the user to create new events
- Subtask: Navigate to Create Event page
- Precondition: Logged in
- Subtask: Fill in event information (name, location, date, etc.)
- Subtask: Hit Add Event button
- Precondition: Required information present
- Precondition: Must have permission to create event for listed group
- Subtask: Navigate to Create Event page
Provide a layer of security:
- Goal: Allow the creator of an event to restrict viewership
- Subtask: Log in
- Precondition: Must have an account
- Subtask: View restricted events
- Precondition: Must be added to the 'viewers' (or better) list for that event
- Subtask: Create restricted events
- Subtask: Log in
GR2 - Designs
More coming soon
GR3 - Paper Prototyping
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User and Task Analysis
GR2 - Designs
GR3 - Paper Prototyping
GR4 - Computer Prototyping
More coming soon
GR5 - Implementation
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GR6 - User Testing
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