INFOCOMM 345

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INFO/COMM 345
Week 2 Group project brainstorming
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Overview

• Study by Gilly Leshed, IS PhD candidate
• Discussion of what were looking for in group
  projects
• Some group project ideas to get you started
• Lets hear some group project ideas from YOU!
• Get together in groups
• Fill out group formation questionnaire

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Study by Gilly Leshed, PhD student Information
Science Program
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Group Project Ideas

• Identifying a need and designing a system that
  caters to that need.
• Analyzing a single system, determining whats
  working and whats not working, and recommending
  suggestions for improvement.
• Performing a critical evaluation of different
  systems or services, and explaining why one works
  better than the other.
• Anything else you can think of! (check with the
  teaching staff)

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Some ideas to get you started

• Identifying a specific need and designing a
  system that caters to that need.
• Website for helping Cornell students choose which
  courses to take with which professor
• System (website or mobile device) to help Cornell
  students find dates
• Website to help Cornell students find a tennis
  partner
• System (online or mobile) that allows community
  members to report suspicious activities in the
  Collegetown area

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Some ideas to get you started

• Analyzing a single system, determining whats
  working and whats not working, and recommending
  suggestions for improvement.

• Tagging behavior in an online bookmark sharing
  community
• Tagging behavior in an online photo sharing
  community

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Some ideas to get you started

• Analyzing a single system, determining whats
  working and whats not working, and recommending
  suggestions for improvement.

• Designing a virtual classroom for students
  enrolled in the same class through eCornell.

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Some ideas to get you started

• Analyzing a single system, determining whats
  working and whats not working, and recommending
  suggestions for improvement.

• Groups on facebook Why do certain groups have
  much more membership than others?

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Some ideas to get you started

• Performing a critical evaluation of different
  systems or services, and explaining why one works
  better than the other.

VS

• Why is a system that doesnt follow usability
  guidelines more popular than one that does?

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Group Project Brainstorming

• Location based information on PDAs
• Social website to encourage artistic endeavors in
  Cornell
• Social music site
• Pay based systems on websites
• Improved game interface
• Plan breaks, vacations together (Cornell based)
• Website to find off campus housing
• Blackboard
• Schedulizer for amusement parks

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Group Project Brainstorming

• Specialized vacation photo sharing site
• Just the Facts
• Comparison of uportal mail vs eudora
• Online collaboration software
• Ways of increasing interactive digital activities
  in the classroom
• Instant feedback applications
• Virtual classroom
• Analyzing online social networks

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Group Project Brainstorming

• Improving GMail
• Comparison between laptops and tablet PCs
• Online productivity software
• Social life recommender
• Book recommender (DIGG for books)
• Systems of getting expensive Cornell books for
  cheap
• Visualization of internet connectivity
• Site for finding people that share similar sport
  interests
• Schedulizer for group meetings

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Group Project Brainstorming

• Dining guide for Cornell dining

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Chaos Phase

• Get into groups
• Go sit with a person that suggested a project
  idea you are interested in doing
• Talk about the project and identify common
  interests
• Exchange contact information and preferred
  meeting times (if youre confident in the
  project)
• Complete group formation questionnaire
• You are not locked into the project you mention
  in the questionnaire, we will assign groups!

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Working in groups

• Working in groups is not easy, but its a reality
  of the real world!
• Randy Pauschs advice for working in groups

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Reminders

• Complete Human Subjects application
• http//www.osp.cornell.edu/HSCompliance/index.html
  
• Next week Phoebe Sengers will give a guest
  lecture
• Readings posted on course website
  http//www.infosci.cornell.edu/courses/info345/200
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