INTERACTION & DESIGN

Team Members

Khizer Kazmi

Annas Dar

Umar Nizamani

Sehrish Suleman

‘Grouper’

Relationships

Introduction

Most of our social lives is based on relationships and they

completely consists of social interactions with people such as

friends, relatives, co workers etc.

With the rise of smart phones this social interaction has been

brought to an entirely different level through various different

applications focusing on different sorts of interactions.

Idea

Our Application

We often end up losing contact with our friends &

relatives over the course of our busy lives. As time has passed by, the gap between these relations has increased for various different reasons.

The application we are focusing on, targets the relationship between friends & relatives (uncles, aunts, cousins, etc).

Our goal is to make the bond between families and friends stronger by bringing them closer together.

Structure

Group Me

It is an app that provides users

with ability to text in groups.

It provides continuous update

among various users of

location and placement.

Viber & Whatsap

Viber lets its user to interact with each other using free calls and messages.

Whatsap is an app that encourages its users to interact on one on one basis

using SMS chats.

Research

Data

Sample size: 30

Interviews: 18

Questionnaires: 12

Demographics & Key-findings

Middle Class to Upper Middle Class people.

Direct Relatives and Indirect Relatives.

Both relations from Maternal and Paternal Family.

We interviewed around 12 of our cousins from both Maternal and Paternal side. 6 adults, aunts and uncles (Phupho, Khala, Chacha,etc).

How often do you talk to your relatives or old friends?

Twice a week

Once a week

Once in 3 months

Occasions

How often do you have a family reunion?

Eid

Every 2 months

No reunion, we live abroad

Once a month

Everyday

Where do you have a family reunion mostly?

Aunts Place

Parents Place

Functions

Grandpas place

restaurants

What do you think which particular thing causes

families and old friends to meet?

Special Occasions

Only elders in the families, once they pass away people forget about everything

Bonding between family members

Love & care between friends.

Kinship

Value of relations & Importance of emotion.

Enjoying and celebrating ones success or happiness is a reason enough

Sick & hospitalize

What are the major problems which have

created gaps between families and old friends?

Long distances

Class differences

immaturity

Misunderstandings

Busy Routine

How do you think that the gap between families

and old friends can end?

Get in touch with each other

Reunions more often

By having a nuclear or Modern, vertical, horizontal and classical family bond

Compromises

By living together as a combine family

It can end if the parents start teaching their children the moral values of family and how important they are from the first day. Then and only then, is their responsibility fulfilled and it’s their child’s job

to carry on the work.

Love and concern for each other.

Everyone should take time out at least once in a week for their parents, brothers, sisters , friends and arrange get-togethers.

Personas

Why Grouper

A more social experience

Focusing on group chats, grouper allows the user to

have a more social experience.

One to one chat is unnatural, conversations in the real

world are mostly grouped.

Group chats increase the likely hood of a continuous

ongoing conversation.

Problem?

What will motivate the people to download the app?

Solution

Adding emotional value

Send invites to your non-social cousins or friends, by sending old pictures where you are tagged together. (This will Emotionally

motivate them to think for a minute to accept the invitation and join Grouper.)

After meeting at a restaurant or a café share your experiences by uploading photos or check-ins through Grouper on Facebook. (which will aware your friends or family member about your

hangout and automatically motivate them to join you in the next hangout.)

You can go through past experiences, to remember the memories and get another reason to chat.

Timely reminders when people you haven't talked to in a while are up.

A reminder every other week specially on weekends to increase the probability of the user talking to them.

Resolves problems with people being in different time zones.

Alerts on any ongoing event in the country/area if the user hasn't talked in a month to encourage a topic to converse about.

Create groups for communication, no one to one chat.

Increases the likely hood of getting a conversation started.

Allows people in the group to send invites for going to events or dining together.

Users have a calendar linked to their smart phone app which is accessible, so check if everyone calendar is free for a weekend then encourage everyone in the group to create a meetup.

Core Functionalities & Feature Set

Core functionality

Talk to a group of people

Encourages you to initiate conversations with relatives

Invite people to an event

The app tries to help create a common ground for conversation

Share experiences

Feature set

Create groups of people

Chat, share photos/videos, share locations or

send invites to the whole group.

Pops up topics to discuss to create a common

ground for conversation.

Sends timely reminders to keep the

conversations going.

Links with your phone number so it's very easy

to setup

Site Map

Wireframes

First draft

Scenario & Storyboard

First draft

User Interface

Thankyou