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- Age: 17 - 23
- Gender: roughly 45% Female, 55% Male
- Literate, and technologically adept** Good typing skills
- Experienced with using a web browser
- Some not willing to meet and/or form dining groups with strangers
- May pset in a study group and sometimes eat with them
- Eating habits vary per living group
- Very frequently multi-task.
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Student in FSILG:
- Eating Habits** Shares meals with large groups of friends
- Eats at the same location for every meal-plan prepared meal
- Usually has some say in what food is prepared
- Usually only 1 menu per meal though
- May not be able to find out the menu before a meal
- Usually has access to communal food in order to cook with on occasion
- Usually has access to nice cooking environment (commercial grade kitchen, lots of pots/pans, etc.)
- Persona:** Name: Andrew
- Age 19 (sophomore)
- Course 9
- Gets dinner 6 nights a week and lunch 6 days a week (if he goes back to his house)
- Has to cook on one night of the week as part of a cooking team
- Sometimes cooks on the weekends
- Travel time is about 20 mins from campus
- Likes watching movies
- Uses Facebook a lot
- Checks email a few times a day
- Knows how to use a computer, but doesn’t know (or care) anything about how it works
- Lives at the house and has his own fridge in his room, though personal fridge is usually relatively empty
Student on MIT Dining Plan:
- Eating Habits** Eats in a large dining hall with other students
- May eat in a small group in this larger crowd
- Has very little say in what food is served** However, usually can choose from a variety of options among the food served (i.e. several menus available)
- Can find the menu in advance on the MIT Dining website
- Exceptions to the above exist: some students on the required MIT Dining Plan don’t eat at the dining halls all the time, choosing instead to cook for themselves
- Persona:
- Name: Betty
- Age: 20 (Junior)
- Course 7
- Lives in McCormick
- Doesn’t mind the new mandatory meal plan
- Really doesn’t like cooking
- Generally stays in her own dorm for meals and eats with other people on her floor
- Occasionally goes to another dorm if a lot of her friends are going
- Has a personal fridge which is usually stuffed with leftovers
- Athletic and really active in IM sports
- Doesn’t do varsity sports because she prefers just playing for fun with friends
- Relatively outgoing
- Very computer savvy
- Knows enough programming to hack small odds and ends on the side
- Checks Facebook and Twitter with her phone a few times a day
- Checks e-mail every 8 mins or so
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- Can more carefully monitor what they eat (and how much they spend on it)
- Seem to generally be willing to splurge every once in a while to get higher quality ingredients
- Often motivated to cook because it’s much cheaper than going out or buying in to the MIT meal plan
- Eats either alone or with small groups of friends/neighbors
- Goes to cooking websites for recipes, etc. (usually have just one that they really like)
- Persona:** Name: Christina
- Age: 18 (Freshman)
- Wants to be course 6-3
- Cooks for herself because she’s pescetarian (vegetarian + fish)
- Really enjoys cooking with/for groups of people and tries to organize meals usually about once a week
- Has easy access to a basic kitchen on her floor
- Doesn’t have her own fridge because there’s plenty of space in the communal fridge/freezer
- Keeps a drawer well stocked with spices and seasonings
- Goes grocery shopping twice a month
- Really likes card games, and plays with people on her floor regularly for study breaks
- Knows how to use a computer efficiently (including web browser), but doesn’t know anything about programming yet
- Checks email once a day
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- Have a huge say in what they eat, but less of a say in what ingredients go into what they eat.
- Don’t always know nutritional information about food consumed, but might not care
- Spend more on food than people who cook all the time, since it’s usually more expensive to eat out
- Goes out once in a while with small groups of friends
- Orders food through websites like CampusFood.com, etc.
- Persona:** Name: Dave
- Age: 21 (Senior)
- Course 8
- Goes out to eat at Pour House on Saturdays with a group of other course 8 seniors
- Orders food every 2 or 3 days, and saves the leftovers for the days in between*** Generally orders large quantities of food, like a large pizza or a large dish of pasta or chinese food
- Has a personal fridge to store the food in
- Always looking for a good deal on food, and uses online coupons*** Also uses sites like BuyWithMe or Groupon for discounts
- Really into console gaming; plays a lot of Halo with a group of friends in his dorm
- Checks e-mail constantly. Checks Facebook maybe once a month. Doesn’t know what Twitter is.
- Can type quickly
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- Specify a new food log entry
- Enter information pertaining to the food eaten, such as:**
- Type of meal (breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, other)
- Date
- What food items were eaten***
- User can optionally choose this from the list of food in possession
- Optionally for each food item:***
- Amount of item eaten
- Food group that item belongs to
- Calories
- Cost
- Submit information
- As an alternative to the above, if a user is a member of a Group (see section IV below), user can simply import a Group food entry to own food log**
- User can further edit this entry once it is imported (e.g. to delete items he or she did not actually eat, or to add items)
Possible errors:
- User enters a wrong food item
- User incorrectly specifies a detail about a food item
- User enters a list of correct food items, but all on the wrong day
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- Specify which entries to show**
- Specify a date range
- Optional: categories of meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner, etc.) to display
- Specify level of detail to show**
- Choose between a summary or full details
Possible errors:
- User specifies an impossible date range (going backwards in time)
- User has no food history to display
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- Specify data range for statistics
- Specify the type of analytics desired. Can sort by trends in:**
- Proportions of different food groups
- Food costs
- Calorie consumption
Possible errors:
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--> Join a Group
Goal: Associate users with others who share a meal with them
Frequency: zero to a few times, total
Precondition: users have an invitation to the Group
Subtasks:
- Choice 1:**
- Receive invitation
- Accept invitation
- Choice 2:**
- Locate Group
- Request permission to join Group
Possible errors:
- Users can’t locate a desired Group
- Users may want to leave Groups they’ve joined
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- Specify a new food log entry
- Enter information pertaining to the food eaten, such as:**
- Type of meal (breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, other)
- Date
- What food items were eaten***
- User can optionally choose this from the list of food in possession
- Optionally for each food item:
- Amount of item eaten
- Food group that item belongs to
- Calories
- Cost
- Submit information
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- The menu entered does not apply to every member in the Group**
- The solution to this is explained in “Record consumed food” of section III above.
--> Communicate to all group members
Goal: Communicate a message to all members in a Group.
Frequency: possibly daily
Precondition: sender must be member of Group
Subtasks:
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