Team E54: Greg Jacobs Dan Koza Ellen Marra Ian Obermiller
Feb 25, 2016
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?