18. 2. Development History
Motivation: What do students seek in the library?
Books, journals & other content
Computers & other technology
Services
Rooms
& they look for other students
27. Typical Uses
FLS 102 Exam Review
Bio 116 Lab Presentation
ISE 501 Group 1 Case Study
Spanish Conversational Group
28. …and not so typical uses
Team Endospore
CSC302 Numerical Methods is really frustrating :(
HISTORY GROUP MARBURY V MADISON
YEAHH
Just to pass with a C-
29. Usage Statistics
Lifespan of GroupFinder (Nov 2009 – present):
1367 users
4089 total posts
A recent, busy month (Nov 2010):
245 users
415 total posts
14 per day
34. Metadata
Survey sent late in Fall 2010 semester to every person
who had posted to GroupFinder during the semester
(n=591)
13% response rate
35. Does GroupFinder help you
meet up at the library?
46% “very useful”
46% “somewhat useful”
9% “not very useful”
36. Do you have to wait around
for your group members less?
73% -- Yes
37. What can we do better?
Let users schedule their own start times on main web
form.
Text message reminders.
Awareness of all features.
And of course: more group study rooms, better food,
more seats, more power, etc.
39. 4. Lessons Learned
Iterative, user-centered design process
Exploring a problem space vs. solving a well
understood problem
Explore gaps between functions of library departments
40. Thanks!
On the web: www.lib.ncsu.edu/groupfinder
More info:
www.lib.ncsu.edu/dli/projects/groupfinder
Josh Boyer (josh_boyer@ncsu.edu)
Joseph Ryan (josephdryan@gmail.com)
41. Watch Jay Dawkins suffer (soil mechanics exam cram)
Coffee chat
i tech team III
PS310 Group 6 Unconventional Warfare
Durham Academy visitors
concrete canoe group
Thermo II - MAE-302... You know the routine.
Just to pass with a C-
Milking it right. The physics way.
A PHI A
Phi 331 study group
WakeNature
SW 307 group project
Psy 400 Sensation & Perception Final Study!
CH 201
PY 208 Final
ACC 200
PHI 340-Optional Final Study Group
Pi Kappa Alpha Study Group
Philosophy Study Group
crim study group
MIE 435 Group 1
Physics/Accounting
HI 351 review
Syme five
Maple Syrup Appreciation Association Group Meeting
Chem 201
Reid's ENG101 Presentation Practice
Campbell, Tapp, Nienstedt, Gates 415
Gladys
PHI 205/Heiner
Lee's group
BUS472: ITEC Team 3
Andrew Balamoun
Calc 2
BIO 181
phi 340 optional final
DU Study Group
FLS 333 Chris and Jayni
PS 201 & PS 320 Exam Review Session
ACC 410 study group
big tuna
Equine Science Study Group
BUS 478 GROUP
Awissa Wabbitteam Narwal
Saunders Study Group
COM 257 Presentation Group
Acc 200 Study Group: Candy, Melissa, Nancy
Arabic 101 Finals Study Session
calc2 study group
MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY
Jacob R. Goldbas for Dr. Timothy Hinton's Political Philosophy Final
MA 341H Group
MA241 Study
Mexican Study Time
Dream Team
Editor's Notes
November 2007 wireframe: library curated location list. Newest activities first. “Join me” functionality. Facebook features, like Add to Friends and profile pictures.
October 2008: Prototype Facebook app. Shows activity by everyone and by your friends separately.
July 2009: Redesign after focus group with students says Facebook is a no-go venue for productivity applications. Twitter style display, including post limit for future Twitter integration. Yellow activity is live preview of how post will be displayed. Note Hours information and Study Rooms info.
September 2009: Beta version. Cork board design tried to create a familiar metaphor, recalls classic method of meeting up at many academic libraries. Live preview on pinkish post it. Although we loved it, testers did not like difficulty of scanning display when there were many posts. Hard to find a given location or activity description.
October 2009: redesign, inspired by a whiteboard. Users liked good scannability of posts. Did not like “sketchy” style and were confused by background graphic. Still anonymous posting! Added authentication right after live in-situ user testing.
As it appears today. Authenticated posts. Built into library web template.
Launched Oct 26, 2009.
Launched Oct 26, 2009.
Students did not understand that GroupFinder was different from the room reservation system in many cases. Did not understand that you could create GroupFinder posts when you were meeting somewhere else other than in a reservable room.