-GR4 - Paper Prototyping

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Platform and software requirements:

We have been testing it on Mac (it might be working in more platforms, but we haven't tried it yet).

It also works in Firefox 4 and Google Chrome (again it is probably working in more browsers).

Flash Player needs to be installed on the browsers.

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Step-by-step instructions:

The programming language we used is Flex, therefore we have an SWF file, but in addition, we have an HTML file (for the evaluators' convenience), which has to be in the same folder as the SWF file.

We put everything in one folder, which you can access here: http://web.mit.edu/username/Public/.

Download the folder with the name " ". Open the folder in your computer, go to " " and click on the ".html" file.

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Description:

We are basically lacking a Database (which will be in our Final Implementation). All of the information on our webpage will be loaded from the database. For now, we simply

hardcoded text everywhere that there should be data from the Database.

Intro Page: You can fill in your information normally and once you click the "Register" or "Log In" buttons (appropriately), you get redirected to the main page BUT without storing your information.

Main Page:

My Trips:

My Map: Once you click on "My Map," a Google Map appears. Originally, it shows the 10 most recent trips your friends had. Since we do not have friends yet, we use a random generator to put

markers on the map (don't be surprised if you see markers in the Ocean :p).

If you want to search for a specific city, you use the search bar. This removes everything, except the marker indicating our desired city. If you click on the Marker, you get a pop up Information Window. This shows your friends that have been to that city along with their ratings for the city. In the final implementation, the names of the friends will be links to their "trips" page, so that we can get more information.

My Friends: There is a send invitation via email, which promotes our webpage and, once you click on the "send" button, there is a dialog box saying "your invitation has been sent." However, nothing is sent.

Also, there is a link to import friends from Facebook, but it's not operating.

Finally, you can search our database for friends (by "name" or by "country"), but we output "No results found," since we do not have a database yet.

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Our Computer Prototype is designed to accomplish the Tasks that we specified in GR2 and, thus, it is not complete (but we added some extra functionality, as well).