Brain Mass Software for the brain

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Brain MassSoftware for the brain

• Group G
• Mark Gabel
• John ODonnell
• Matt Cechini
• Shane Niebergall
• Scott Morrison

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Overview

• Brainstorming Room
• Data Collection Interviews
• Evaluation of Existing System
• Our solution
• Features
• Demo

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Brainstorming Room

• Learning Commons
• Sole purpose of sparking and communicating group
  creativity
• Key features

• Digital Whiteboard
• Conference Phone
• Media Center
• Idea Box

• ELMO
• Web Cam
• Projector
• Wall Art

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Brainstorming Room
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Data Collection Interviews

• Asked questions about their last brainstorming
  session
• Good? Bad?
• Materials used?
• Efficient?
• What would have made it easier?

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Data Collection Interviews

• What materials did you use?
• Computer with internet access (5)
• Pen and paper (4)
• Whiteboard and markers (4)
• Printer (1)
• Laptops (1)
• How did you document your results?
• Typed into document and emailed to others (3)
• Paper and pen (3)
• Took picture of whiteboard (2)
• Ideas kept in head. (2)

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Evaluation of Existing System

• Axon Idea Processor

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Evaluation of Existing System

• Evaluated Features
• Cluster tools
• Analyzer
• Generator
• Tabulator
• Sequencer

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Evaluation of Existing System
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Evaluation of Existing System

• Majority 0 of 5 tools would be used again.
• New brainstorming software was needed!
• Our idea BrainMass

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BrainMass

• Combine features of existing tools
• Create new tools
• Intuitive UI

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BrainMass Basic Screen
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BrainMass Basic Tools
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BrainMass Drawing
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BrainMass - Drawing

• Mouse-over grabs relevant information from
  internet

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BrainMass File Menu
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BrainMass File Menu
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BrainMass - Export
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BrainMass - Export
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BrainMass - Export
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BrainMass - Export
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BrainMass File Menu
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BrainMass - Revert
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BrainMass - Revert
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BrainMass Edit Menu
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BrainMass Edit Menu
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BrainMass Auto Arrange
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BrainMass Users Menu
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BrainMass Users Menu
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BrainMass User Profile

• Learning Styles Test

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BrainMass User Profile
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BrainMass Creativity Menu
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BrainMass Creativity Menu
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BrainMass Idea Box

• Presents existing items in order to spark new
  ideas
• Adjusts to users learning style

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BrainMass Idea Box

• A global, visual learner would benefit from
  seeing many pictures at once

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BrainMass Idea Box

• A verbal, sensing user would benefit from text
  excerpts

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BrainMass Creativity Menu
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BrainMass Question Tool
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BrainMass Chat Menu
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BrainMass Chat
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BrainMass Help Menu
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Brain MassSoftware for the brain

• Questions?