IPL-SI: Group Design Project 6

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1 Instructions
2 Comments on Group Statements
3 Team 1 Statement
4 Team 3 Statement
5 Team 5 Statement

[edit] Instructions

Decide on a new functionality for the IPL or a social procedure for using the IPL technology that might support social networking of students around the world to form groups for discussing digital resources. This should be a feature that you will be able to incorporate in an interface design and show to people to see how well they can understand and use your new feature. Try to think of something that is innovative and that might prove important -- i.e., do not just copy profiles from some popular site or focus on a help or un-do button. You can build on an idea that someone in the class had for their conceptual design paper.

Now design a prototype interface for your new feature. This could be some kind of sketch of what you think that feature might look like in the IPL system. You can use the chat room's draw tools to make a rough version of your prototype that your group agrees upon. Then create a graphics file with another application and use the "Upload file" link in the left frame of the wiki to upload it. This will give you a file name to use in your team's report below.

Also develop a scenario narrative that describes an important usage of your new feature. Your readings describe the nature of scenarios and prototypes.

[edit] Comments on Group Statements

[edit] Team 1 Statement

Step 1: Jake logs into the IPL and searches for books about general  nutrition.

"Step 2: Jake views the results and clicks on one he thinks is relevant."

Step 3: Jake selects a book in the forums and click on the reference icon next to it to add it to his collection.

""Step 4: System displays the book being added to the bookshelf.""

Step 5: Jake views his own list of personal books that he feels are relevant.

[edit] Team 3 Statement

Step 1:
A user visits the IPL website and sees the start page. The user is asked to search for “Global Warming”.

Step 2:
The user enters “Global Warming” in the search field and clicks on the “Go” button.

Step 3:
The search results are displayed in an extra tab. This way, the user doesn’t have to navigate back to the content again and has the 
freedom to always use the search when needed without any loss of his current content view. The tabs are static, so the user can browse 
the IPL and can use the tabs at any time. The results are categorized by the topic they appear in. Next the user selects the first 
discussion board search result “Is global warming a serious issue?”.

Step 4:
The selected Knowledge String is shown in the content tab while the search results are still accessible over the search tab for further use. 
The user wants to post his response, and so he clicks the “Reply to the Discussion” button.

Step 5:
The user is immediately shown a text field. The user types his response and clicks the “Post reply to Discussion” button.

Step 6:
The user is taken back to the Knowledge String, and now sees that his response is added to the existing Knowledge String.
Satisfied the user decides that he would like to review other search results and selects the search tab again.

Step 7:
The search results are shown again and the user can select other sources that are then displayed in the content tab. 
The user can enjoy complete freedom of searching for and reviewing of results.

[edit] Team 5 Statement

Goal: To add a resource to the group shelf which will automatically get added to the group shelves of all the team members.

Scenario: Mark is a student of iSchool at Drexel University. He is working along with his group on a Human Computer Interaction project. Mark wanted to see some data and he logged into internet public library (ipl) to check out some references. Mark searched the ipl for human computer interaction and found a couple of resources related to it. He found one resource useful and decided to share it with his group members Alex and Shraddha. So he added the book to his group shelf. Once done, this book automatically got added to the group shelf of marks team members. So next whenever Alex or Shraddha would login they would be able to view this book in their group shelves as well.

Steps:

Step 1: Internet public Library (ipl) homepage. Mark has to login with his email and password in order to access and manipulate his personal shelf as well as to view others shelves. If this is Marks first login then he will have to sign up with ipl giving all his personal information to create a profile for himself. Thus, we assume here that Mark has a profile created for himself and he enters his login id and password to order to access his account.

Step 2: Mark is logged into his personal space consisting of his shelves, his friends list (whose shelves he can view) and a chat room consisting of his friends who are logged/offline in the system. Mark decides to search the ipl for resources related to human computer interaction. So he enters this topic in the search box on the top-right corner of the screen and clicks on the search button.

Step 3: The search results are displayed on this screen. It shows a list of book abstracts available with ipl for this topic, a list of magazines available, a list of newspaper containing this topic etc. Mark decides to view the book abstract on Human Computer Interaction (3rd edition) ad clicks on that hyperlink.

Step 4: The details of the book are displayed along with buttons like Add to shelf, Add to group Shelf, Add to wish list which are quite self explanatory. Mark can also tell about this book to his friends by clicking on the Tell a friend button. Mark can also check the shelves of the people who have the same book on their shelves as he is searching for, in this case Abhijeet G and Teena M. He can also contact these people by sending then an offline message incase he needs some help on this subject as they show similar research interest. He can also invite them for chat incase they are available online (displayed by a green icon next to their names). In this case mark decides to add the book to his group shelf and so clicks on the Add to group shelf button.

Step 5: The screen displays a conformation box in order to reconfirm whether mark wants to add the resource to his group shelf. Mark decides to click on the Confirm button as he wants to add the book to the group shelf.

Step 6: Mark is navigated to his group shelf, where he can see the human computer interaction book added to his other resources. Mark now has the option of either go back to his search results incase he wants to check out other resources displayed by the search engine or he can go back to his homepage. Mark decides to logout of ipl and so he clicks on the Logout button.

Step 7: After Mark logs out of the system the ipl homepage is displayed. After sometime Alex logs into the system by entering his credentials.

Step 8: Alex is displayed with his homepage. Alex clicks on the hyperlink called as Group Resource in order to view content in his group shelf.

Step 9: Alex can now view the Human computer interaction book added to his group shelf. If he clicks on the book he will be able to see that the similar book is available on Mark and Shraddha’s shelves as well. He will also be able to view tha the book was added to his shelf by Mark. Alex then decides to logout of the system and so clicks on the Logout button.