Team E54: Greg Jacobs Dan Koza Ellen Marra Ian Obermiller

1. Team E54: Greg Jacobs Dan Koza Ellen Marra Ian Obermiller

3. History of Sustain • Sustain is a social networking application that helps you keep in touch with your contacts • stores interests for you and your contacts • downloads relevant stories that you can share to start up a conversation • Sustain was developed by our sponsor, Niraj Swami, for the Android platform

4. Objective The objective of this project was to develop and release a beta version of the Sustain application for the iPhone by May 2009, using only the sponsor-provided equipment and 32 human-hours per week.

5. Customer Needs Sustain… • Allows the user to find and share relevant stories faster than simply searching • Time to get new stories less than 30 seconds • Is convenient • Is easy to learn and use • Is aesthetically pleasing • Is stable and does not crash

6. Evaluation of the Prototype • 94% of users found Sustain more efficient than their current method of sharing news • 89% of users found Sustain aesthetically pleasing • 78% of users understand how to use Sustain • Sustain is 5x faster at sharing stories than Google News • Sustain obtains new stories in less than 4 seconds

7. Application Flow Diagram

8. Economic Analysis

9. Live Demo

10. Questions?