-GR4 - Paper Prototyping

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Platform and software requirements:

We have been testing it on Mac and tried it on Linux as well. (it might be working in more platforms, but we haven't tried it yet).

It works in Firefox 4 and Google Chrome (again it is probably working in more browsers).

Flash Player needs to be installed on the browsers.

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Step-by-step instructions:

The programming language we used is Flex, therefore we have an SWF file, but in addition, we have an HTML file (for the evaluators' convenience), which has to be in the same folder as the SWF file.

We put everything in one folder (along with the required images and libraries), which you can access here: http://web.mit.edu.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/rossides/Public/.

Download the zip file with the name "World Insider - GR4 ". (We have also added the whole folder, just in case).

Open the folder in your computer and click on the "WorldInsider.html" file.

You are all set!

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Description:

We are basically lacking a Database (which will be in our Final Implementation). All of the information on our webpage will be loaded from the database. For now, we simply

hardcoded text everywhere that there should be data from the Database.

Intro Page: You can fill in your information normally and once you click the "Register" or "Log In" buttons (appropriately), you get redirected to the main page BUT without storing your information.

Main Page/Menu Bar: You can click on the buttons on the Menu bar on the top of the page and you get redirected appropriately. It starts by having the "My Trips" clicked.

On the top left part of the page (below the user's name = "Michalis") there is the "Account Settings." This is a list, which will mostly be implemented in our Final Design and it offers quick links to the user.

The "Edit Personal Information" and the "change picture" are not implemented (since we did not have it in our GR2 scenario and they are unimportant details). The "Sign out" link takes you to the Intro page and the "Add Friends" gives a pop up, where you can add friends easily. But, these are still details that we do not bother in GR4. (Note: You can get this through the "my Friends" link on the Menu Bar)

My Trips: "+Add trip" button redirects you to the Form that the user has to complete for his New Trip. You cannot upload photos yet. For the "country" drop down, we will just download a list of all countries to populate this drop down. Type of Activity = "Nightlife", "Historical Site", etc... Not yet implemented. "Save" buttons takes you back to all your trips as it should, but it does not store anything anywhere.

Another thing that we will add to make it fully complete is an "Edit" button for each trip, so that we can modify the information as we wish. However, again this is not part of our GR2 scenario, thus, we skipped it for now.

My Map: Once you click on "My Map," a Google Map appears. Originally, it shows the 10 most recent trips your friends had. Since we do not have friends yet, we use a random generator to put

markers on the map (don't be surprised if you see markers in the Ocean :p).

If you want to search for a specific city, you use the search bar. This removes everything, except the marker indicating our desired city. If you click on the Marker, you get a pop up Information Window. This shows your friends that have been to that city along with their ratings for the city. In the final implementation, the names of the friends will be links to their "trips" page, so that we can get more information.

My Friends: There is a send invitation via email, which promotes our webpage and, once you click on the "send" button, there is a dialog box saying "your invitation has been sent." However, nothing is sent.

Also, there is a link to import friends from Facebook, but it's not operating.

Finally, you can search our database for friends (by "name" or by "country"), but we output "No results found," since we do not have a database yet.

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Our Computer Prototype is designed to accomplish the Tasks that we specified in GR2 and, thus, it is not complete (but we added some extra functionality, as well).