1. Brain Mass Software for the brain Group G: Mark Gabel John O’Donnell Matt Cechini Shane Niebergall Scott Morrison

2. Overview  Brainstorming Room  Data Collection: Interviews  Evaluation of Existing System  Our solution Features Demo

3. Brainstorming Room  Learning Commons  Sole purpose of sparking and communicating group creativity  Key features Digital Whitebo ard Confere nce Phone Media Center Idea Box ELM O W e b C a m P r o j e c t o r W a l l A r t

4. Brainstorming Room

5. Data Collection: Interviews  Asked questions about their last brainstorming session Good? Bad? Materials used? Efficient? What would have made it easier?

6. Data Collection: Interviews  What materials did you use? Computer with internet access (5) Pen and paper (4) Whiteboard and markers (4) Printer (1) Laptops (1)  How did you document your results? Typed into document and emailed to others (3) Paper and pen (3) Took picture of whiteboard (2) Ideas kept in head. (2)

7. Evaluation of Existing System  Axon Idea Processor

8. Evaluation of Existing System  Evaluated Features Cluster tools Analyzer Generator Tabulator Sequencer ? ? ? ? ?

9. Evaluation of Existing System

10.  Majority: 0 of 5 tools would be used again.  New brainstorming software was needed!  Our idea: BrainMass Evaluation of Existing System

11. BrainMass  Combine features of existing tools  Create new tools  Intuitive UI

12. BrainMass – Basic Screen

13. BrainMass – Basic Tools

14. BrainMass – Drawing

15. BrainMass - Drawing  Mouse-over grabs relevant information from internet

16. BrainMass – File Menu

18. BrainMass - Export

22. BrainMass – File Menu

23. BrainMass - Revert

25. BrainMass – Edit Menu

27. BrainMass – Auto Arrange

28. BrainMass – Users Menu

30. BrainMass – User Profile  Learning Styles Test

31. BrainMass – User Profile

32. BrainMass – Creativity Menu

34. BrainMass – Idea Box  Presents existing items in order to spark new ideas  Adjusts to user’s learning style

35. BrainMass – Idea Box  A global, visual learner would benefit from seeing many pictures at once

36. BrainMass – Idea Box  A verbal, sensing user would benefit from text excerpts

37. BrainMass – Creativity Menu

38. BrainMass – Question Tool

39. BrainMass – Chat Menu

40. BrainMass – Chat

41. BrainMass – Help Menu

42. Brain Mass Software for the brain Questions?