News is everywhere. According to the Pew Research Center, 70% of Americans agree the amount of news and information available from different sources today is overwhelming. This overabundance of irrelevant information makes it difficult to find personally useful news.
Through surveys, directed storytelling and journals, we found that people’s most trusted news source was not the same as their most frequently used or most essential source. 84% of our survey respondents reported they consumed news several times a day during brief intervals of spare time, with no set routine.
Using a survey, journals, and interviews, we found that students sit for up to half of each day, both in and out of class.
nüs leverages social connections to find relevant news from around the world to around the corner. This service uses collaborative and contextual filtering to aggregate and deliver personalized news to you.
An early iteration of the mobile mobile app shows the use case of how a user can browse popular news stories based on their current mood, and also contribute location specific news to the network. .
TEAM
Bryan Cheung, MDes IxD 2011
Chelsey Delaney, MDes CPID 2011
Corinna Sherman, MDes IxD 2011
Duration: 15 weeks
CONTRIBUTION
trend and market research, survey design & execution, journal and collage development, concept development, prototype development and testing, persona development, web & mobile VUI wireframes and design, service & business model development
Carnegie Mellon University
Graduate Design Studio II
Chris Kasabach, Chris Pacione, Vanessa Sica, Instructors
with Bruce Hanington, Professor
School of Design
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