Team E54:Greg JacobsDan KozaEllen MarraIan Obermiller

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History of Sustain

Sustain is a social networking application that helps you keep in touch with your contacts– stores interests for you and your contacts– downloads relevant stories that you can share to

start up a conversation Sustain was developed by our sponsor, Niraj

Swami, for the Android platform

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Objective

The objective of this project was to develop and release a beta version of the Sustain application for the iPhone by May 2009, using only the sponsor-provided equipment and 32 human-hours per week.

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Customer Needs

Sustain… Allows the user to find and share relevant

stories faster than simply searching Time to get new stories less than 30 seconds Is convenient Is easy to learn and use Is aesthetically pleasing Is stable and does not crash

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Evaluation of the Prototype

94% of users found Sustain more efficient than their current method of sharing news

89% of users found Sustain aesthetically pleasing 78% of users understand how to use Sustain Sustain is 5x faster at sharing stories than Google

News Sustain obtains new stories in less than 4 seconds

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Application Flow Diagram

Add Interest View

Contact ViewRoot ViewShare View

Story Browser View

Story ViewStories

Interests

Viewing mode?

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Economic Analysis

Activity Quantity Cost

Person-hours of work completed 1,080 hours at $25/hour $27,000

iPhone Developer License 1 $100

iPod Touch 1 $229

MacBook laptop 1 $999

iMac desktop 2 at $1,199/each $2,398

Total: $30,726

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Live Demo

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Questions?