Hot+Spots

=** Hot Spots **=

** Design Concept and Interactive Documentation **
Marie Kostic and Juliana Iannuzziello

**Brainstorming / Words ** | **Scenarios** | **Story Board** | **Milestones** | **Design Concept Process **| ** Interactive Documentation **

=[|FINAL INTERACTIVE DOCUMENTATION- HOT SPOTS]=

Scenarios


** Scenario two - ** ** Frequent User **
 * Jean has arrived at school early; she has decided to meet up with friends
 * They have not yet decided on the location to meet up at
 * Jean decided to sign into Hotspots and retrieves her friend’s list
 * Jean then selects her friends and sends them an Instant Message.
 * She choose to met up at Hot Spot #3 (located in Vari Hall)
 * While Jean is waiting for her friends to arrive she log on to see which users are online
 * She has the choice to sort the online users within 100 meters based on Common interests, last log in and Name
 * Jean chooses common interests and selects the first name on the list
 * She decided to IM the person and has a conversation until her friends arrive


 * Scenario three - Infrequent User**
 * John is a musician and loves meeting new people
 * He has heard of Hot Spots on campus and decides to try it out
 * John logs in and sorts his contacts based on common interests
 * John goes through the list and picks out a few profiles
 * He decides to email them and invite them to Jam at Hot Spot #6 (located in Accolade East)


 * Scenario four - Infrequent User**
 * Jane is a York Student, First Year, who is very shy, and doesn't know a lot of people on campus
 * Jane goes to one of her lecture classes where she's missed last week's class and has no notes
 * Jane wants to know what the teacher is referring to in the lecture but is too shy to disrupt the people sitting next to her
 * She takes out her iphone and decides to use 'Hot Spots' to communicate with other students in the class who are willing to communicate back
 * She finds the proper radius in which she wants to contact users and asks what the teacher is referring to in her lecture by sending a message
 * A boy named Bill at the front of the class replies to her message giving her an answer
 * Jane then asks Bill if she could get the notes from last class during the break so she can catch up
 * They pick a spot to meet during the break and start to have a conversation
 * By the end of their conversation they add each other as 'friends' into their Hot Spots application

Milestones

 * 1) The first plan was to find available spaces on campus. So when a student finished class or just had sometime off they could sign in to our application and find out all the free seating locations on campus. We hated the fact that at York we have lack of seating, so what we wanted to do is to find those locations that are available to students and have them visually see it on they're screen to figure out if there was available seating for them. In order for the application to know how many students are presently in a specific location Hot Spots would use GPS built into cellphone and laptop, as well people have the option to sign in to the application and display their status.

Sketch
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**Design Concept Process**


It was decided that the first idea branched off in to many different parts and was therefore required to be narrowed down into a more specific path. We then decided to totally forget about finding free spaces on campus to go to, instead we chose the social networking root.

The application allows you to interact with people sign into the network. In order to create social networking mainly based on interests users have in common. Hot Spots has a limited range of 100 meters in order to encourage near by users to meet up and share common interests.