GR1: Analysis
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User Analysis
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- Age varies from 18 and above, for both male and female user.
- English-speaking.
- Computer literate.
- Have busy schedules.
- Are interested in socializing and sharing ideas and interests..
Case Studies
- Tim the 1st Year Grad Student (Age 26).
- Jeff the 3rd Year Undergrad Student (Age 20).
- Jermie the 2nd Year Grad Student (Age 25).
1: Tim the 1st Year Graduate Student
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Jermie is a 2nd year Graduate student in Chemistry Department. He is done with his Qualification Exam, but he still takes some classes and attends lectures and recitations. He is also TA for a Grad Course. He has a huge research group with multiple sub groups in it. In his research group they have a weekly meeting for the entire group and also many small ones where sub groups meet the adviser to give status reports. Because his adviser is a busy person, she has shared her number with all the group members and they give her a call in case urgent discussion is required while she is not around.
Apart from his work, he is interested in working out in gym and has a very social life. Also he happens to be a religious person and goes to church every weekend. He uses Gtalk and phone calls to arrange spontaneous hangouts. He bumps into people sharing his interests at church or other social gatherings that he likes to attend for this very reason. And for discovering new people in his organization MIT he uses MIT People Directory very often, and is very comfortable with it despite the difficult-to-use menus.
Lessons learned
- To locate each other within the same institution, students have to resort to a multitude of resources.
- There indirect methods of contacting people can be time consuming, which is problematic in urgent situations.
- There is no clear way to find out a person’s availability based on his/her current location.
- People who have been part of MIT for a long enough use "work-arounds" to arrange meetings or to discover new people and they have grown to accept these "work-arounds."
- A convenient solution packaged in one easy-to-use UI will enable people to request for availability of a large group in fast and hassle free way and successfully arrange a well organized event or a meeting on a relatively short notice.
Task Analysis
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