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U.C. Berkeley Calendar Network Final Masters Project Presentation

U.C. Berkeley Calendar Network Final Masters Project Presentation. Allison Bloodworth Nadine Fiebrich Myra Liu Zhanna Shamis May 12, 2004. The Purpose of Web Calendars. A web calendar is a marketing tool

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U.C. Berkeley Calendar Network Final Masters Project Presentation

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  1. U.C. Berkeley Calendar NetworkFinal Masters Project Presentation Allison Bloodworth Nadine Fiebrich Myra Liu Zhanna Shamis May 12, 2004

  2. The Purpose of Web Calendars • A web calendar is a marketing tool • Its main purpose is to publicize events, either within a community, or to the general public • Calendars should make it as easy as possible for users to find information on events of interest to them • On the Berkeley campus, it is very difficult for calendar users to find events • Visitors to the Berkeley campus • Students • Faculty • Staff • Users must go to many different calendars to find events of interest to them

  3. The Problem • There are numerous calendars on the Berkeley campus • The Academic Calendar • Bancroft Library • Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive • Boalt Law School • Cal Performances • College of Engineering • College of Letters & Science • Haas School of Business • Institute for East Asian Studies • Lawrence Hall of Science • Live.berkeley.edu • UC Berkeley gateway site (www.berkeley.edu) • …and more than 70 others

  4. U.C. Berkeley Gateway Calendar

  5. Boalt Law School

  6. The Problem • It is difficult to get a comprehensive view of all campus events on a given day • Because the purpose of a calendar is to publicize events, many of these calendars would like to share their events with each other. • Currently there is no automated way to do this. • Often this is done by manually entering the event data into several different web forms • Or, even more inefficiently, by emailing the event data • Incompatible data models & lack of technical resources prevent an automated exchange

  7. Incompatible Data Models • U.C. Berkeley Gateway Site • Haas School of Business

  8. The Solution • A standard data model of an Event • A centralized repository of Event information • A calendar management tool • Allows users to manage their events in the repository • Allows users to customize a visually compelling dynamic web-based calendar • A design for a system architecture allowing XML feeds to and from the repository for calendars who choose to maintain their own website & repository

  9. Event Modeling Process

  10. User-Centered Design Process • Interviews • ASUC • Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive • Boalt Law School • Center for Latin American Studies • College of Letters & Science • College of Natural Resources • Graduate Assembly • Haas School of Business • Information Systems and Technology • Institute of East Asian Studies • International House • Journalism • Public Health • Recreational Sports • School of Information Management & Systems

  11. User-Centered Design Process • Findings from Interviews • Very important to maintain ‘Look and Feel’ of website • Ability to update information easily and quickly • Share events with other organizations on campus • 3 levels of users: • Low level - No calendar • Medium level - Willing to try other calendar applications • Advanced level – Do not want to replace current system but want to share events with UCB community

  12. User-Centered Design Process • Competitive Analysis • Web Event • Cal Agenda • Calendars.net • Live.berkeley.edu • iCal • MS Outlook • Yahoo Calendar • Other User-Centered Design tools • Task Analysis • Personas • Scenarios

  13. User-Centered Design Process • Iterative Design Process • Paper Prototype

  14. User-Centered Design Process • Iterative Design Process • Interactive Prototype

  15. User-Centered Design Process • Findings from Usability Testing • Application Layout • Terminology • Post vs. Publish • Public Event Contact • Features • Export Paper prototype 1st Interactive prototype Latest Design

  16. Demonstration

  17. System Architecture

  18. Calendar Transforms • Event Model Instance • Institute of East Asian Studies calendar • Original (http://ieas.berkeley.edu/events/) • Our transformation • Letters & Science calendar • Original (http://ls.berkeley.edu/events/) • Our transformation

  19. Future of the Project • Our project was developed in close communication with the e-Berkeley Program office of U.C. Berkeley • e-Berkeley plans to manage the development of a full functional and technical specification for this system this summer • If successful, our system will eventually be rolled out to the U.C. Berkeley campus community • Potential First Customers • UCB Gateway site (www.berkeley.edu) • Institute of East Asian Studies • SIMS • L&S • Haas

  20. Acknowledgements • Bob Glushko, Masters Project Advisor • Jeff Kahn, UCB gateway site administrator • Jon Conhaim, eBerkeley Program Director • Event Modeling Team • Sara Leavitt, Kathleen Connors, Jeff McCullough, Sarah Jones, Mimi Mugler • All the calendar administrators who participated in the interview and user testing processes • Professor Marti Hearst • Alex Milowski & Carolyn Cracraft, CDE • Pepper, Sierra, Tessa, Wally & Ben

  21. Questions?

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