Nostalgia Project Design Case Study

Introduction

Design Rationale

Evaluation

Enhancement proposal

Conclusion

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Nostalgia Project Design Case Study:
Introduction

Community computing, a highly distributed management system, is mostly developed for and by users, with the functions meant to attain to a particular aspect of that community (village, city, etc) life.

Developed with the idea to make a historical account of the city of Blacksburg, the user can access the Blacksburg Nostalgia system at http://miso.cs.vt.edu/nostalgia.

As a group project for a class (in HCI – Human-Computer Interaction), some students evaluated and proposed changes to the system. Two of the proposals, a Photo Gallery and a Guestbook, were implemented.

Continuing the efforts to improve the system, our group did additional research on the system, trying to identify possible enhancements and to evaluate the enhancements that had been previously made.

The Nostalgia group is made up of Greg Kessler, Weiqing Wu, and Cayley Guimaraes.