yorkurequirements

Brainstorming:

 * Provide information for students and visitors on campus
 * Provide a method of finding public space on campus for different needs eg. studying space, social space, eating space
 * Provide information about events taking place on campus
 * Act as an overview of campus activity
 * Be easily accessible
 * Readability
 * Provide space for discussion
 * Facilitate meeting spaces
 * Provide information about York's Campus Community
 * Be a space for students to post community, class meetings or events
 * Socialized learning system
 * Course-specific
 * Interest specific
 * Finding Campus clubs
 * Multidisciplinary
 * Calender and news feed
 * Billboard
 * Easy access
 * Messaging system

=Requirements= 1st attempt

Revised:


 * Requirement Description || Type || Rationale || Priority || Content || Function ||
 * To link and connect students from different groups (cultural, programs, clubs, interests...) and make communication between groups possible and accessible. || User, usability || Let students to widen their network and scope to the multidisciplinary community by removing the possible barriers in communication so that they are not limiting themselves to interact only within their own “groups”. || Must have || Student personal profiles that indicate their interests, programs that they are in and any terms (words, pictures ...) that student thinks that can better identify themselves. || Having tags/headings that indicate different groups and interlinks those that are similar in genre.

Instant translator while communicating

Instant messaging system (chat rooms—private/public)

A list of contact names in the network based on user’s selection of groups ||
 * Resources should be easily found, accessible, organized, interactive, useful and multidisciplinary || Data, usability || The quantity and format of resources are massive and diverse and since everyone has different interpretation and direction in understanding the resources, it’s time-consuming and difficult to find the useful resource in the existing search system( which the computer filter the results through matching keywords that the user typed in) || Must have || Any resources that students/professors find useful to them and contribute their findings in the collective knowledge database || A more humanized search engine which involves instant asking and answering device

Resources being categorized through users profiles (which has that user’s own selection of tags that helps better describe a resource)

Messaging system among user to discuss and ask about the resource if it is right for them. ||
 * To support collective learning environment that equal chance and space to express thoughts should be given to everyone || Usability, data || Since students have different levels of communication skills, some may have more advantages in expressing ideas in a group discussion and dominates those that are not good at articulating ideas verbally. By providing more diverse way/tools to express ideas, it ensures great ideas of all students have a place to show and be listened. || Must have || A democractic system that has variety of tools to express thoughts in different ways at anytime and a system to help sorting out the workload of each group mates

Workloads that each group mates assign to each other, their contributions/ research expressed in different ways and shared among group. || A shared to-do list

A blog-format chat room which can upload different files (audio, graphic, text...)for displaying group findings

Instant messaging (also support video conversation) for discussion

Instant translator while messaging || Interactive map, List of announcements, news.
 * To keep students updated as in what is happening at York and their peers and encourage a stronger community-setting in campus || User-data || To keep students in touch with the events and activities that are going on in the community can encourgae more interaction among students, better use of existing social space at York ( if events are taken place at York) and an opportunity to set up their own group/event which in turn stimulates the whole community. || Should have || Events including dates, time, location, purpose, genre and information about the participants || A shared calendar,

Sorting system to filter events based on user’s selection of groups.

A rating system for user to rate and comment on the event ||
 * To provide more physical space for students to leisure, work and socialize on campus || environmental || Physical technologies can help face to face interactions, faciliate social activities and other socializing systems || Would have || Physical space/technology that can be used for seating, studying, playing and relaxing. || More computers that support the online social network

More comfortable, socializing public seatings

More undefined space for student to carry out whatever activities they have planned.

Some touchscreen computers scattered over york for instant checking on current events and information ||