Evaluation of the Prototype 78% of users understand how to use Sustain 94% of users found Sustain more efficient than their

current method of sharing news 89% of users found Sustain aesthetically pleasing 100% of crash test iterations passed Sustain is 5x faster at sharing stories than Google News Sustain obtains new stories in less than 4 seconds Story relevance testing showed that the gathered stories

were, on average, mostly relevant

A social application for the iPhone.

Problem: Want to talk to your friends and colleagues, but have no idea what to talk about? Sustain is the tool for you.

Economic Feasibility and Business Plans Deploy a free version of the application in the Apple

App Store to gain attention, with a paid upgraded version

Include advertising in stories obtained Distribute in a corporate setting as part of a suite of

applications

Sustain… Stores interests for you and your

contacts Finds news stories based on those

interests Sends those stories to the contacts who

would be interested in them

Customer needs:Sustain… Obtains new stories quickly Gathers relevant stories Shares relevant stories Operates in portrait and landscape mode Is stable and not crash Is easy to learn and use Is aesthetically pleasing

Team E54: Greg Jacobs, Dan Koza, Ellen Marra, and Ian Obermiller *

Open Sustain

View interests:Plus to add Trash to remove

Toggle to view story list:Arrow refreshesBook views story

Story view:Link opens larger browserShare button takes you to the next screen

Choose a contact

Type your name and click send to email

How it Works:

Approach to Design Loosely based on the existing Android

application developed by the sponsor Written in Objective-C using Xcode and

the iPhone Development SDK Tested extensively in the iPhone

simulator

* Sponsored by Niraj Swami and advised by Dr. Iqbal Ahamed

Conclusions Sustain is currently a working demo, but testing revealed

several fixes and enhancements for the final version: art factor, help screens, and more customization

The final version will be delivered to our sponsor for marketing and distribution on the App Store