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Keny Fan, Nikita Shvachko, Sami Eljabali, Simant Goyal

Needs:

• To promote and encourage social interaction between Facebook users

Approach:

• User opinions were gathered with contextual inquiry. Realized a reward system advocates activity among users – created “Evolution” feature

• Low-Fidelity Prototypes were made to test product. Realized sharing can help interaction between users – created “Visiting” feature

Features:

• The “Evolution” Reward System

• The “Visiting” Interactive System (The Monster Next Door!)

3) When viewing the “host’s” Profile

2) See a message – Avatar is away (at “host’s” profile)

1) Entering profile, going to see Avatar

Level 1 (Basic) Level 2 (advance) Level 3 (max)

Solution:

• Rewarding users for playing an active role in the Facebook community