BIRTHDAY GREETINGS

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BIRTHDAY GREETINGS

• Suming ChenJohn HwangDamandip Sanghera

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Whats the need?

• The ability to give someone a birthday card over
  Facebook.
• The current way of saying Happy Birthday over
  Facebook does not allow for any creative or
  visual personalization of the message.

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How to address the need?

• We will be catering to the mutual friends of the
  birthday card recipient.
• The idea of having a group of mutual friends
  being able to send out a birthday card to a
  birthday friend and being able to contribute
  content cooperatively.
• This approach will allow the user to see what
  mutual friends they have with the birthday
  person, and then the user has a chance to send
  invitations to those mutual friends so that they
  can help build the birthday card.

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Demonstration
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Architecture Diagram
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User Study Methodology

• Since our application is really focused on the
  fact that users can band together to group sign a
  card, we thought it would be best to watch two
  people concurrently try to create a card and
  contribute to it.
• Our method of observing these activities was to
  be with the pair in real life and record the time
  they spent on each feature.
• We would ask them, time to time, if they had any
  complaints or suggestions, while we recorded the
  data onto our laptops.
• We used a Likert scale to quantify the users
  experience.

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Summary of User Study

• The users seemed to like the colors and fonts.
  They also thought the navigation was smooth
  compared to other Facebook applications. 
• It seemed that the users felt like the final
  product was worth the effort, since the slideshow
  would be displayed for everyone to see.
• Another general consensus among users was that it
  was annoying not have a back button.
• A pair of the users we interviewed had a problem
  as one of them sent the card before the other had
  even had a chance to contribute anything.

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Conclusions of User Study

• Add an option to delete unwanted photographs. 
• Add a back button to the Upload Pictures and
  Palette/Drawer page, so that a user could have an
  easier time navigating. 
• Put a reminder at the top of the screen so that
  only the user who initially created the card can
  send the card.  

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Design Changes

• A ready system will be implemented so that
  contributors to the card can tell the creator of
  the card when they have finished contributing, so
  the creator knows when to send the card.
• Improve the palette/drawer.  Most users seemed to
  find it not as intuitive and easy to use as the
  Graffiti application. 
• Our palette/drawer saves a picture much slower
  than the Graffiti application, so the foremost
  improvement we would have to make is to lessen
  the time it takes to save the picture. 
• Adding music to the contributions page.