Whisper: An event service

Discovering interesting events consistently on a day-to-day basis is difficult and time-consuming. People attend events based on its location and whether they have social connection. With this challenge in mind, I along with another user experience designer developed a framework outlining six phases of events: proposition, polling, participation, parting, perpetuation, and persuasion. We also developed the design of Whisper, a web-based event service that addresses the planning and organizational challenges identified in this framework

Continuing at Carnegie Mellon a project I initially started at UC Berkeley, I further developed a service that finds interesting events. During the conceptual stages of the project, we focused on a location-based mobile application that found nearby events. Around that, I worked with Professor Jason Hong to understand user concerns of privacy and needs that were not met with current mobile applications. At Carnegie Mellon, I transitioned the event service to a web-based service that focused on eliminating the challenge of organizing an event and inviting interested people.

Role
Lead Researcher
Lead User Experience Designer

Documentation
Paper Mockup
1st iteration HTML mockup
2nd iteration HTML mockup
CHI 2006 Works-In-Progress paper/poster