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Our website is intended as home-browsing, leisurely activity. Thus, all of the below tasks will likely be performed indoors at a desk, on a computer, and the individual tasks have no time constraints and will likely be performed about once a week during the times that high school students are making their decisions (mid-March to the end of April about MIT, then June about dorms) and the MIT students are offering their personal experiences (potentially all year round, but with spikes during CPW and REX).
1. Browse
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Information (Pichu/Pikachu/Raichu)
- Filter map by category (later functionality)
- View i3 videos
- Read MIT student stories
- Browse dorm pictures and stats (cost, number of doubles, etc.)
- direct comparison of different dorm features (like cost)
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Part of this browsing involves reading the personal experiences that MIT students have posted, so in that sense the students here are interacting indirectly with those MIT students, and the success of that feature of this task depends on task 2.
2. Submit advice/personal story (
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Ash)
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- precondition: logged in
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- with MIT certificates
- input
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- story at a particular location
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- select whether or not others can ask questions about this story
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- if “yes”, then they are allowing others to email them
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- submit story
The purpose of this task is for current MIT students to share their experiences with regards to a particular aspect of MIT life.
We will assume the user is a current student of MIT(this will be verified by certificate login) who has personal knowledge of student life. This task of story input and submission will be easily learned by trying it through an intuitive interface.
There will be a preview feature that allows the user to proofread what s/he has written before final submission to check for errors. Nonetheless, a user could still submit his story for the wrong dorm or accidentally say that others cannot ask questions about a story and intend to say yes. Other things that could go wrong with the site includes users who submit malicious stories about different dorms.
3. Ask a question (prefrosh/high schooler)
-input question and email about a particular story that a current MIT student has posted
-CAPTCHA
-submit question to the MIT student
Prefrosh and prospective students want to be able to communicate with current MIT students about their actual experiences. They will be able to do so by filling out a form linked to each MIT student story post that will email the question to the particular MIT student who wrote the post. The user doesn’t need to know anything other than have a question about housing to direct to the MIT student.