Vulture's Eye -- GR1

User Analysis

1. Posters
   1.  Motivation is to get rid of cruft (goods they don't need) or food quickly due to circumstances (e.g. "We don't have the Bush Room reserved past 10!")
2. "Casual" reusers
   1. Incentive to use is to acquire specific items or classes of items
   2. Searches for items
3. "Competitive" reusers
   1. Incentive to use is to get an edge on competition by getting served metadata in at-a-glance form
   2. Looks at live-updating, general map
   3. Uses type tagging
   4. Needs lots of efficiency

All of the above groups exist in a community which is relatively proficient in computer technology.

Task Analysis

Post Item

1. Open site
2. Enter post information
   1. Location (enter custom one, or select from common locations)
   2. Contents (as an itemized list)
   3. Optional: additional information.
   4. Select which mailing lists to post to (reuse, free-food, reuse-sell)

3. Click "Submit" [precondition: Entered post information]

Find Item (Manually)

1. Open Site
2. Optional: Log In

   1. View saved searches [precondition: Logged in]

   2. Custom filters automatically loaded [precondition: Logged in]

3. Search for item in historical database

4. Examine details, decide to acquire [precondition: Relevant post]

5. Optional: Subscribe to similar reuse posts [precondition: Relevant post, Logged in]

6. Optional: Subscribe to search [precondition: Logged in]

Find Item (Dynamically)

1. Open Site
2. Optional: Log In

   1. Custom filters automatically loaded [precondition: Logged In]

3. Optional: Filter map
4. Wait until a relevant post appears

5. Examine details, decide to acquire [precondition: Relevant post]

6. Optional: Subscribe to similar reuse posts [precondition: Relevant post, Logged in]

Acquire Item

1. Click on item on map or in search box

2. Optional: Recommend to a friend [precondition: Logged in]

3. Map displays shortest path to building (using browser built in location services).

Predict

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Domain Analysis