GolfNotify Demo John Morgan Matt McHugh Award Winning Developers of the OHSHIT system
Research Question
Remember Grudin’s Eight Challenges For Groupware Development? Of course you don’t … you weren’t paying attention … but we don’t blame you. Disparity in work and benefit Disparity in work and benefit Critical mass and Prisoner’s dilemma problems Disruption of social processes Disruption of social processes Exception handling Exception handling Unobtrusive accessibility Failure of intuition The adoption process
Disparity In Work And Benefit Quick view of golfer availability One time invitation to golfers
Disruption of Social Processes Ability to be “unavailable” Any number of notification options from low I values to high I values
Disruption of Social Processes Ability to select golfers (the “I don’t like Christa right now scenario”). Difficulty capturing and supporting elements of a social context.
Exception Handling Unfortunately, not enough time to do this but we claim discussion forum is necessary Invitation data + guest list + special comment = all the exceptions?
Some Re-engineering Ideas Discussion board, discussion board, discussion board Support for customized user lists similar to AIM BuddyList (to capture the social context?) More notifications … because they’re cool Golfer calendars (but does this defeat disparity between work and benefit?)
GolfNotify Product Demo