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Avi Bardack - avi@umd Antoni Gmurczyk - agmur@umd Steven O’Brien - ebisumaru@gmail

Avi Bardack - avi@umd.edu Antoni Gmurczyk - agmur@umd.edu Steven O’Brien - ebisumaru@gmail.com Ryan Oaks - roaks@umd.edu. December 7, 2009. Problem. Current restaurant review sites are not directed well toward College Park students Limited info about specific food items

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Avi Bardack - avi@umd Antoni Gmurczyk - agmur@umd Steven O’Brien - ebisumaru@gmail

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  1. Avi Bardack - avi@umd.edu Antoni Gmurczyk - agmur@umd.edu Steven O’Brien - ebisumaru@gmail.com Ryan Oaks - roaks@umd.edu December 7, 2009

  2. Problem • Current restaurant review sites are not directed well toward College Park students • Limited info about specific food items • Difficult for college students to find restaurants based on their needs

  3. Solutions • Add menu for each restaurant, with reviews and ratings for individual food items • Add searching mechanisms directed toward the needs of college students

  4. Other Design • Did not have search box • Used directory style for every search type • Criteria • Restaurant type • No user login

  5. Usability Test Method

  6. Pre-Test Form • General questions • Age • Gender • UMCP Student? • Residency • Transportation methods • Internet access • Dining experience • How often go out for food? • How often go out to bars? • How often order delivery? • What's most important when buying food?

  7. Usability Test • Subjects • 8 UMCP College Students • Tasks • Freshman Scenario • Sushi-Lover Scenario • Hungry Pizza-Lover Scenario • Save Your Favorite Restaurant Scenario • Partying At The Bar Scenario • Lonely Scenario • Goal: Make use of the full functionality of the prototype • Different search options • Compare restaurants (based on different attributes) • Locate the restaurant • Compare food items • Write reviews, etc.

  8. HiFi Prototype

  9. Usability Test Results

  10. Results LIKE • Concentrated on restaurants around the area • Able to compare different attributes of the restaurants • Idea of searching for food items • Searching from restaurant page • On the right track DISLIKE • Search bar options confusing • Cannot sort the results by all available critria • Not all ratings in reviews apply to all places • Main concerns: non-dynamic and lack of visual appeal

  11. Demo • Demo.

  12. The Future • Infrastructure • Data • Page-specific • Features

  13. Infrastructure • Page refresh always required • MS Visual C# • Rewrite code base

  14. Data • Source • Restaurant Owners • Users

  15. Restaurant Results • Hours

  16. Food Results • Food Link • Horizontal Scanning

  17. Whitespace

  18. Whitespace

  19. Things We Didn’t Account For • Food reviews need a LOT of data • Different food sizes • Autonomous ratings • Searching by service/atmosphere • Food types

  20. Questions? • No?

  21. Good • Thank you, come again

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