a project for ENGR3220: Human Factors and Interaction Design
at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, fall 2005

Team Velveeta is Matt Colyer, Natalia Creamer, Dan Rice, and Brian Shih.

Using current calendaring solutions, it is often difficult to view others' or an aggregate of schedules. Team Velveeta's aim was to design a system to simplify these tasks, facilitate social interaction, and track academic and life tasks.

If you only read one document, it should be our final report.

Phase 0: Preparation

• Project proposal
• User interview protocol
• Informed Consent Form (RTF)
• Records Release Form (RTF)

Phase 1: Interviews, personas, tasks

• Team structure
• Personas, goals, conceptual model, and tasks
• Task matrix
• Lexicon
• Note: During this phase, we also completed our mock-IRB documents and decided that we were satisfied with our proposal.
• Note the second: Due to confidentiality restrictions, we cannot publish the raw results of the interviews we conducted during this phase.

Phase 2: Scenarios, competition, design ideas

• Lexicon (updated)
• Scenarios
• Comparative analysis
• Design ideas: One, Two, Three

Phase 3: Lo-Fidelity prototype

• Protocol (updated)
• Interview Script
• Report

Phase 4: Interactive prototype

• Prototype (developed for Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 - get Firefox)
• Report
• Presentation

Phase 5: Heuristic evaluation

• Heuristic evaluation (PDF)

Phase 6: Second interactive prototype

• Prototype (developed for Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 - get Firefox)
• Report

Phase 7: Informal usability study

• Report

Phase 8: Third interactive prototype

• Prototype (developed for Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 - get Firefox)
• Final presentation (PDF)
• Final report

All phases:

• Division of labor