Evaluation of the Prototype 78% of users understand how to use Sustain 94% of users found Sustain...
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Evaluation of the Prototype 78% of users understand how to use Sustain 94% of users found Sustain more efficient than their
current method of sharing news 89% of users found Sustain aesthetically pleasing 100% of crash test iterations passed Sustain is 5x faster at sharing stories than Google News Sustain obtains new stories in less than 4 seconds Story relevance testing showed that the gathered stories
were, on average, mostly relevant
A social application for the iPhone.
Problem: Want to talk to your friends and colleagues, but have no idea what to talk about? Sustain is the tool for you.
Economic Feasibility and Business Plans Deploy a free version of the application in the Apple
App Store to gain attention, with a paid upgraded version
Include advertising in stories obtained Distribute in a corporate setting as part of a suite of
applications
Sustain… Stores interests for you and your
contacts Finds news stories based on those
interests Sends those stories to the contacts who
would be interested in them
Customer needs:Sustain… Obtains new stories quickly Gathers relevant stories Shares relevant stories Operates in portrait and landscape mode Is stable and not crash Is easy to learn and use Is aesthetically pleasing
Team E54: Greg Jacobs, Dan Koza, Ellen Marra, and Ian Obermiller *
Open Sustain
View interests:Plus to add Trash to remove
Toggle to view story list:Arrow refreshesBook views story
Story view:Link opens larger browserShare button takes you to the next screen
Choose a contact
Type your name and click send to email
How it Works:
Approach to Design Loosely based on the existing Android
application developed by the sponsor Written in Objective-C using Xcode and
the iPhone Development SDK Tested extensively in the iPhone
simulator
* Sponsored by Niraj Swami and advised by Dr. Iqbal Ahamed
Conclusions Sustain is currently a working demo, but testing revealed
several fixes and enhancements for the final version: art factor, help screens, and more customization
The final version will be delivered to our sponsor for marketing and distribution on the App Store