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Scenario 1 You take the morning off to get some brake work done to your car and buy four new tires. At the tire store you find yourself waiting in the lounge watching Jerry Springer while the mechanics are putting on your tires. You pull out your PDA to check your mail and find that a coworker has emailed you a link to the draft of his report. You take your time and read it. What is important for the web browser?
Scenario 2 You are at the gym running on a treadmill trying not to stare at the person next to you who is running three times as fast as you are. You glance at the television and see a CNN financial report about a bank you have stock in. It doesn’t look good. After getting off the treadmill you call your broker and ask him for advice. He advises you to sell so you pull out your PDA and use e-trade to sell your stock (saving that huge brokerage fee). What is important for the web browser?
Scenario 3 You’re travelling and find yourself in a hotel in a new city. You’d like to find out about some good Chinese restaurants close by. You find your PDA in your luggage and go visit a website like Mapquest. There you find a map of the local area and a list of restaurants with directions. What is important for the web browser?
Scenario 4 You’re at the park with the family on a Sunday. Your mother calls and wants to videoconference. She gets to talk to you and watch the kids playing on the jungle gym. What is important for the web browser?
Scenario 5 A salesmen in charge of his area needs to check some figures about how one of his stores has been doing with a particular product. Not wanting to wait for his laptop to boot up again, the salesman pulls his PDA out of his jacket pocket and accesses the company database. He shows these figures to the store manager who agrees to a new order amount. What is important for the web browser?
Real Web Pages to Prototype and Why They were ChosenThe following web pages were chosen to prototype based on their close proximity to the types of pages that are described in the scenarios above. Scenario 1 - http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~mfulk/7001/proj2/descr.html This page is the original description of the project started last semester (Fall 1999) for John Stasko. It is all text like the page described in Scenario 1. Scenario 2 - http://www.etrade.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic%2bHome This is the e-trade homepage. In order to sell stocks you would need to go to login to your account at whichever brokerage you choose. Most of e-trades pages are similar in layout and style to the front page. It is a good choice to prototype for a small screen. Scenario 3 - http://mapquest.digitalcity.com/atlanta/dining/venuemap.dci?vid=18216 This is a Mapquest page that displays a map of a Chinese restaurant in Atlanta. This is the type of page a traveler might expect to look at when looking for restaurants. This page has some tables and images on it. The main image is a map of where the restaurant is located. Other important items on the page are a form to enter a starting address and an area to view comments by others who have eaten at the restaurant. Scenario 4 - http://www.microsoft.com/windows/netmeeting/?RLD=52 This scenario is a little harder for which to find a representative page. The one chosen is a Microsoft page dealing with their NetMeeting product. It has an image illustrating how NetMeeting works and is set in the standard style of other Microsoft pages. Scenario 5 – http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/ii/webpda/ Here the page I chose is the poster page I made for this project. This scenario involves looking at tables of data and images (charts or graphs) that have been made to show what the data in the tables represent. For now, this a good page to demonstrate layouts for tables as well as images that are in the table. |