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The Simpsons Fan Hub: Watch, Chat, Interact and Explore

Our portal offers Simpson fans concurrent browsing, watching episodes and community interaction. Enjoy plot summaries, references, and trivia competitions. Join a chat, watch together, and delve into dialogue. Providing an immersive experience with accessible features for users to explore seamlessly.

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The Simpsons Fan Hub: Watch, Chat, Interact and Explore

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  1. The Simpsons Portal

  2. Overview • Problem we are addressing • Our user tasks • UI design

  3. Simpsons Fans TV Watchers Computer Users College Students User Community

  4. Current user practices • Reruns • Trading Episodes • Chat • Trivia • Research

  5. Picture of User’s Screen

  6. Solution • Allow concurrent searching, browsing, and watching of archives • Provide additional information • Plot summaries • References • Episode Dialogue • Create a community • Watch episodes together • Interact • Chat • Trivia Competitions

  7. Solution

  8. User Testing Tasks • Browse through seasons of The Simpsons and read a specific episode’s plot summary (easy) • Search for a specific episode and watch it (medium) • While watching the episode, join a chat and look up a piece of trivia (hard)

  9. UI Overview • Button Bar • Fixed Frames • Different Views • Explorer-style Information

  10. Button Bar • Continuous access to all of the features of the site • Select the frame to display information • Multiple screen formats

  11. Now Playing Chat Help Search Trivia Browse General Info Button Bar

  12. Upper Right Frame Left Frame Lower Right Frame Button Bar

  13. Fixed Frames Standard View

  14. Different Views Extended View

  15. Different Views Full screen mode

  16. Explorer Style Information Plus/minus menu metaphor

  17. Development of the Pop-ups

  18. Demonstrate Site

  19. Must represent many forms of information Must display a large volume of information Must be flexible, accessible Different info in different regions Menus allow deep information Multiple views allow customization Review

  20. Not Yet Implemented • Complete episode information • Proper streaming video • Chat and Trivia functions • Full Screen mode • Database • State – PHP, Dynamic Page Generation

  21. Tools • DreamWeaver • Emacs • Photoshop • Notepad, MSPaint, vi, Front Page, Apache, etc.

  22. Summary More and more people are using the internet to supplement their TV-watching. We are offering a central location where they can watch TV and get related information and interaction.

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