Events

Group Members

• Sara Itani
• Megan Kercher
• Eric Lubell
• TA: (TA's name)Mason Tang

Problem Statement

1. Managing a social calendar is difficult and inefficient: You have to call/text tons of people, take into account availability, remind people to come, etc.

2. Most event managers (Facebook, Meetup.com, etc.) are for planning events far in advance. It's very difficult to plan something on a whim Organizing the short-notice, quasi-important social events (like a basketball game, dinner, game of chess, ...)

3. Hard to know who's in town to invite and filter friends in general.

4. This is Adam Smith's idea, but he thinks that online dating is a completely flawed model because meeting people by friends of friends is the best way to form relationships. http://blog.adamsmith.cc/2011/02/towards-better-online-dating.html

that make up a great portion of our everyday lives has not been tackled successfully by any social networking site.  There is demand in today's society for a quick, accessible, and non-committal way to initiate the forming of an event, then unobtrusively inform others on an exclusive or non-exclusive basis, and have quick feedback as to who is interested in attending.

We hope to cater to the demand with our webapp, EventHub. We have a few particular objectives that would make this website particularly attractive:

• an easier/more efficient way to filter friends and invite people to an event than on Facebook (who's solution is to scroll through all your friends and check their box if you want to invite them)
• an interface that gives spatial perspective as to where an event is occurring/what other events may be happening in any particular area (people don't want to be invited to events that they can't even get to)
• an easy way to manage the logistics of the event (take into account availability, remind people to come, figure out who's bringing what, rides, etc.)
• making an online event posting a more personal/less abstracted experience. People complain it's more like filling out a form than having fun. 
• People complain about not being aware of events that are going on just because they haven't run into the right people -- ambitious for this 6.813, but suggest events based on events a user has enjoyed in the past (perhaps based on shared circles of friends, type of venue, activity, etc.)

GR1 - Task Analysis

GR2 - Designs

GR3 - Paper Prototyping

GR4 - Computer Prototyping

GR5 - Implementation

GR6 - User Testing

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Meeting on 02/18 - photos

All the ideas
 

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