GolfNotify Demo

John MorganMatt McHugh

Award Winning Developers of the OHSHIT system

Research Question

Outing Host

Guest 1 Guest 2 Guest 3 Guest n

……...

Invite

Negotiate Update plans

Renegotiate

RESEARCH QUESTION: Can a groupware notification systemprovide the necessary tools to alleviate this frustrating process?

Remember Grudin’s Eight ChallengesFor Groupware Development? Of course you don’t … you weren’t paying attention … but we don’t blame you.

Disparity in work and benefitDisparity in work and benefit Critical mass and Prisoner’s dilemma problems Disruption of social processesDisruption of social processes Exception handlingException handling Unobtrusive accessibility Failure of intuition The adoption process

Disparity In Work And Benefit

Quick view of golfer availability

One time invitation to golfers

Disruption of Social Processes

Ability to be “unavailable”

Any number of notification options from low I values to high I values

Disruption of Social Processes

Ability to select golfers (the “I don’t like Christa right now scenario”). Difficulty capturing and supporting elements of a social context.

Exception Handling

Unfortunately, not enough time to do this but we claim discussion forum is necessary

Invitation data + guest list + special comment = all the exceptions?

Some Re-engineering Ideas Discussion board, discussion board,

discussion board Support for customized user lists similar

to AIM BuddyList (to capture the social context?)

More notifications … because they’re cool Golfer calendars (but does this defeat

disparity between work and benefit?)

GolfNotify Product Demo