GroupBrainstorm-Group:PollPrecision

From CS160 User Interfaces Fa06

Contents 1 Team Members 2 Brainstorming Ideas 3 Selected Idea 4 Project Proposal -- Voting/Survey System 4.1 Problem Description 4.2 Problem Context 4.3 Target Users 4.4 Why the Anoto System is a Good Technology for Addressing the Problem 4.5 Solution Sketch

Team Members

• Keenahn Jung
• David Eitan Poll
• Hiroki Terashima
• Eric Vacca

Brainstorming Ideas

These are ideas that we came up with while brainstorming

1. Luggage tags (big-brother)
2. Physical key-logging
3. Drop pen in terrorist camps, wait for data to come in about next attack strategy
4. Symbolic writing
   • Math input
   • Math text messaging
   • Short-hand interpreter
   • Foreign-language interpreter
   • Context-sensitive input
   • Predictive text
5. Drafting
6. Measuring tool
   • Making blue prints
   • Architecture
   • Geometry helper
   • 3D drawing tool
7. Project Management/Planning
   • Ganf chart
   • Workflow timesheet
   • Checkpoint checkoff
8. Automatic bookmarks/Automatic Search
   • "Google it" notes
   • Bookmarks in your notes
   • Mark-up detection
   • Underlining automatically indexes
   • Automatic index generation
   • Table of Contents generation
9. Data Entry
   
10. Memory
    
    • Photo-album
      
    • Scrapbook
      
    • Distributable memory book
      
    • Attendance sheet
      
    • Voting- paper trail and count, forgery
    • Writing sheet music (short-hand)
11. Budgeting
    
    • Exporting word to excel
      
12. Integrated Pen and Paper Games
    
    • Pen and Paper turret game with real time hit detection
      
    • Connect the dots
    • Online pictionary
    • Score keeping (Dungeon master, baseball, bowling, football)
    • Strategies (football, basketball, hockey, soccer)
    • Annotating sheet music
    • Hangman
    • Tic Tac Toe (2D or 3D)
    • Educational Games
      • Learning to write/cursive
13. List Ideas
    • Collaborative Shopping Lists
      
    • Ads on the shopping lists
      
    • Distributed shopping lists
      
    • Coupons: pass out coupons
      
    • Inventory tracking
    • Help eldery with perscription and shopping lists
      
    • Guestbook/Attendence Sheet
      
    • Brainstorming List
      
    • Todo Lists (Calendars)
      
    • Therapist Note-taking tool
      
14. Interactivity
    • Shopping using a pen - computer monitors everywhere for feedback
    • Pen vibrates or makes sound when an action is taken
    • Digital question box
15. Official Notes
    • Doctor's Notes
    • Prescriptions
    • Notes from parents for schoolchildren
    • Digitization of contracts and signatures on contracts
16. Handwriting Analysis
    • Forgery detection
    • Psychological Profiling
17. Special Events
    • Event tickets for signing guestbooks
    • Handwritten digital flyers
    • RSVP on Invitation
    • E-vites -- Digital and Paper-based
    • Reminders of Calendar items (Pen can beep or vibrate to remind you)
    • Use pen to scale hand-drawn or handwritten content for posters

Selected Idea

Voting/Survey System
We chose the voting idea because of its simplicity and practicality, while still leaving room for creatitivy. For example there are different ways to design the "ballot" to meet individual needs (ASUC voting, "voting" in class, etc) while re-using the same backend code. We also realized that we can easily generalize the survey system to other specific applications of polling like course evaluation surveys, and sign-up/attendance sheets. The wide range and accessibility of our target group was another key motivation for choosing this idea.

Project Proposal -- Voting/Survey System

Problem Description

Surveys and voting are fundamental components of many important tasks. From business to politics, voting helps us make solid decisions, and surveys give us insight into the human psyche, allowing us to make informed analyses of products, actions, and their impacts. Collecting data has always been possible with the use of paper, pen, and other analog tools, but interpreting that data has been notoriously costly, innacurate, and difficult.

Our system aims to join the confidence that pen-and-paper data entry provides with the convenience of digital entry, making rapid data analysis possible.

The voting system we hope to create would feature:

• Digital data entry
• Pen-and-paper medium for convenience and ease-of-use
• A paper trail that has never been passed through a digital filter, allowing for higher confidence in results
• Integration with database and spreadsheet applications for easier data-mining
• Customizable survey templates, allowing the system to be adapted to the various needs of users

Problem Context

Electronic voting systems have been a topic of much debate of late. There have been concerns and allegations of tampering and insufficient record-keeping, making vote verification difficult and recounts nearly useless. Yet the value of such voting systems is also great. They make counting and analysis of votes much simpler, and are less prone to human error in data entry because the voter interacts directly with the system. Our aim is to address the criticisms of such systems and to simplify the task of conducting surveys, taking polls, and recording and interpreting the collected information.

Target Users

Our target users fall into two categories:

1. Surveyors, Pollsters, and Data Miners
   • These are the people who seek to acquire data, for whatever reason
   • Most likely the direct client of our software
   • Need:
     • System for easy and accurate collection of data from survey subjects and voters
     • Integration with data mining tools such as database software or other common scripting applications
   • Want:
     • Verifiability of results
     • Highly customizable ballot templates
2. Voters and Survey Subjects
   • These are the people who will respond to requests and surveys from pollsters and surveyors
   • Most likely users of the system
   • Need:
     • Method of data entry that will allow them to effectively communicate with their pollster
   • Want:
     • Reassurance that their submissions were successful and received with high levels of accuracy
     • Easy data entry that doesn't requrie them to learn something new in order to provide feedback

Why the Anoto System is a Good Technology for Addressing the Problem

In the past, electronic voting systems have been susceptible to criticism because of the lack of transparency in digital systems. Anoto, on the other hand, inherently leaves a paper trail that is guaranteed not to have been tampered with in the black box of some complex computer system. Furthermore, pen and paper is already an established and common way to administer surveys, and people generally know how to respond to written questions using this medium, making it particularly apt for an application such as ours.

Solution Sketch

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