GR4 - Computer Prototype

Briefing

You have just graduated from MIT and wants to plan a trip to Florence.  You have never been to Florence before and want some help laying out a schedule.

Months before his trip, you know that you want to visit all of the hot spots, and that you want to have breakfast first thing and dinner last thing.  Your task to to fill in the rest of your schedule.

Platform

Operating system: Linux, Ubuntu

Web browser: Google Chrome

Starting the app

Here is the URL to access our application: http://web.mit.edu/afarrell/www/smak/

Shallow vs. deep features

Shallow

• The "Auto Schedule" button which fills in your schedule uses a dumb algorithm right now: it just moves activities from "Activities" to "Schedule" without considering the distance between activities, etc
• We give the user a pre-populated list of activities in the "Activity" column.  The form for adding activities is not active yet.

Deep

• The look and feel of the "Activity" and "Schedule" columns
• Activities can be moved between the "Activity" and "Schedule" columns
• Users can move/resize activities in the both columns.
• When changing an activity in the "Schedule" column causes other activities to move, an algorithm choose how best to re-position those activities