1. Ann Marie Rynning Christopher Chavez Drew Harry
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فريق فقط
Ann Marie Rynning
Christopher Chavez
Drew Harry

2. One to Many Communication for College Students
, 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?
This was to try to get a broad picture of the issue.
“Zooming out before zooming back in”

3. 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
Anecdotal information too:
* About how once a list was created people unsubscribed (bibletalk)
* Sending two s in one if groups overlapped (hannah)

4. 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.

5. Current List System “Found things haphazardly”
“I think I can check who’s on the list, but I’m not sure how to do it anymore.”
“Tried to create one as part of a club, and I couldn’t figure it out.”
“I don’t even know what the digest feature is.”
“I can’t check who’s on the list – once sent an to the old committee members”
Complicated subscription process

6. Project Goals Based 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
BASE THESE on USER GOALS when talking about them in presentation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Keep up to date about the culture and people’s interests
Discuss similar interests.
Learn about events get people to come to my events.
Help others
Build community around personal hobbies.
Get information from the “experts” / Advise - increasing one’s reputation.
Find people who share certain common interests or traits.
Avoid feeling silly/embarrassing myself in front of others.

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

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

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

10. Personas

11. Scenarios Lara Zoe Geoff 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

17. Lessons Learned
Design for most used features (boolean is cool, but not important)
Get rid of unused and not wanted “features”

18. Lessons Learned: Visibility matters

19. Lessons Learned: Vocabulary matters, Simplification

20. Lessons Learned: Visibility matters

21. Lessons Learned: Reduce Memory Load

22. Super Link