Team ONLY

Ann Marie Rynning

Christopher Chavez

Drew Harry

فريق فقط

One to Many Communication for College Students

Email, IM, Telephone, Meetings, Mailing Lists How does one decide which to use for a given

announcement? How frequently are these used? Are these tools sufficiently fully developed to meet

the needs of students?

Preliminary Interview Findings on Lists Allow for communication with a large, self-selecting

group with common interests Average subscriptions of 3-15 lists Traffic constitutes from 15 to 90% of inbox volume Lurking is common (social awareness) Simplifies inbox sorting

User Goals

Keep up to date about the culture and people’s interests.

Discuss things with people who have similar interests.

Learn about events get people to come to my events.

Help other people, so if I need help people will listen to and help me.

Build community around personal hobbies.

Get information from the “experts” on a certain topic.

Advise others with the ultimate goal of increasing one’s reputation.

Find people who share certain common interests or traits.

Avoid feeling silly/embarrassing myself in front of others.

Current List System

Project GoalsBased Upon User Interview Findings

Minimize lurking time for new users Simplify the subscription process Provide advanced functionality for advanced

users, without burdening average users Make archive system more intuitive and

navigable

Lara

Junior, SAC, SERV, make Olin livelier, ME, proud Texan, “Work hard, play hard”

Zoe

Freshman, small town Kansas girl, enjoys cooking, shy, passionate about her faith, enjoys math, unsure about which E

Geoff

Sophomore, quiet, technically inclined, FIRST alum, has a girlfriend, likes games

Personas

Scenarios

Lara Wants to email her floor to get their input She uses the smart lists

Zoe Was sick during club fair and wants to sign up Explores main list page and finds ones that interest her Subscribes

Geoff Wants to play D&D so he does a search Decides to create a new list

Lessons Learned

Design for most used features (boolean is cool, but not important)

Get rid of unused and not wanted “features”

Lessons Learned:Visibility matters

Lessons Learned:Vocabulary matters, Simplification

Lessons Learned:Visibility matters

Lessons Learned:Reduce Memory Load

Super Link

http://fsweb.olin.edu/courses/engr3220/sa2004/engr3220-yellow/prototype/index.php