PosterBoard - GR2 - Designs
Manasi Vartak, Tristan Naumann, Chidube Ezeozue
Scenario
Amanda a graduate student in the EECS program is organizing an event – a South Asian cultural night, to be specific. After creating a poster, she decides to put it up on PosterBoard’s electronic poster boards.
Five minutes later, John is walking past a poster board. He’s hurrying to his lab not because he has a meeting but because hurrying is a way of life at MIT. In any case, he interested in knowing if anything has changed in the poster board since he walked past it the day before also the electronic poster board catches his attention. So he stops and takes a look. Amanda's cultural night looks like an interesting event and he adds to his calendar. He also has the option to share the poster on facebook and he promptly does so since many of his classmates have been craving some free Indian food. He’s not done yet because the beardless man in the poster could do with a nice moustache (It’s November Movember, after all) so he paints one in and adds a speech bubble that has the woman in the poster complimenting the moustache. This would also certainly be a good thing to share with his friends on facebook.
Before he steps off the poster, he observes some other posters for ‘related’ events and activities; a South Asian dance group, MISTI India and a Pakistani Coffee Hour at the Ashdown house. He’s not interested in any of these so he continues hurrying to his lab.
Newt is also planning a career event targeting Asians on campus. After creating a poster and putting it up on the poster board, he realizes that the timing conflicts with that of Amanda's event so he searches for his poster, takes it down, postpones the event and puts it back up.
A day before the event, Amanda needs to get some sense of the level of interest in the cultural night. So she accesses the poster board and is able to see how many people focused on the poster, how many people added it to their calendar, what annotations and comments were made on the poster and all this in relation to how many people interacted with the board in that time. She now has a better idea of the level of interest and heads to Shalimar food and spices to order the ‘right’ amount of food.
After the event, the poster expires and disappears from all poster boards.
Designs
Design 1
Modes of Access: Electronic poster board for adding and viewing posters
Highlights: Calendar view, Clustered Events view, Randomly focused poster in idle mode
Analysis
Design 2
Modes of access: Website for adding and removing posters, electronic poster boards for viewing and interacting with poster board
Highlights: Card reader for personalizing poster board, similar posters identified by border color 
Analysis
Design 3
Modes of access: Website for adding and removing posters, electronic poster boards and website for viewing and interacting with poster board
Highlights: QR codes for poster interaction; adding to calendar, sharing on facebook. 
Analysis