Nostalgia Project Design Case Study
| Introduction
Design Rationale |
Design Rationale for the system and the changes Blacksburg Nostalgia has its origin in a senior citizen’s interest for more information about the city of Blacksburg. It was implemented from the idea of the project Web StoryBase - a system of stories about personal Internet experiences. Some students of HCI classes worked on the system, applying design theories to propose enhancements. The Guestbook, one of the changes, allows the visitor to record his contact with the system. Its original goals were to make the browsing of the system more attractive and also to provide an address book of those interested in Blacksburg history. The other addition to the system, the Photo Gallery, emerged naturally from the response of the seniors for the photographs used in the original system. Users can not only indulge in the photographs, its origins, history, identities of people portrayed and many more, but they can also contribute with their own photographs. |