Information Gathering
| Interview Excerpt - Students |
| As our immediate peer group, interviewing a student seemed an obvious choice. Their many classes, assignments, and social appointments and general computer-knowledge made them possible users of Scope. What they lacked in their business needs they more than made up for in social requirements. Two types of students were interviewed, a Computer Science major and an International Studies major. |
| Interview Excerpt - Business Professional |
| Our target market is broad enough to cover nearly every working professional in the market. Anyone that keeps track of large amounts of vital correspondence, appointments, and serious to-do lists could benefit from scope, so, interviewing a busy, time-crunched professional seemed natural. |
| Interview Excerpt - Subject Matter Expert |
| It was our pleasure to interview a graduate student Mr. Lester Oscar Lobo who has attained practical training in the field of requirement analysis and also HCI by taking Usability Course. A Graduate Student of Requirement Analysis at Virginia Tech himself having done research including designing user dialogs, giving recommendations for VoiceXML dialogs and in a number of the latest technologies. We targeted him as our Subject Matter expert and tried to extract his opinions, views, and suggestions from his personal likings and his experience in the field. Our contact came in very handy, and the interview proved very beneficial. |
| Screenshot - AOL Instant Messenger |
| When a specified user comes online or back from an away state a textual notification is displayed on top of all open windows in the middle of the screen. |
| Screenshot - Microsoft Outlook (E-mail) |
| When a user checks their email in the lower right hand corner the number of new messages is displayed to the user. In the upper left hand corner the number of unread messages is displayed in blue to the user. |
| Screenshot - Trillian |
| In this screenshot, WinAMP has just loaded a new song. This action is intercepted by Trillian, which notifies the user of the song title and artist. In the same shot, the taskbar is also displayed. Many notifications appear in this area. |
| Video - Fire Alarm |
| One of the most noticeable alerts is the real-life fire alarm. Alarms such as these convey an immediate notification that some action needs to be taken. |
| Photograph - Post-it Notes |
| Another real world object, the post-it note is ubiquitous. It can easily remind people of meetings, tasks, and many other things. They can easily be arranged as shown in this photograph. |