Mates Project

Abstract

Technology companies have developed a wide array of applications that introduce individuals and facilitate communication for purposes ranging from dating to establishing new business relationships. There is a need for similar applications in the University environment to facilitate collaboration for academic purposes ranging from creating study groups on the fly to holding online office hours.

By building an infrastructure to introduce and connect individuals based on physical location, class registration, group membership, academic interests, and other relationships, we will lay the groundwork for the development of a multitude of next-generation collaborative learning and communication applications. Additionally, as part of the scope of this project, we will develop a proof of concept University-wide IM system that takes advantage of this underlying infrastructure.

Ayush Agarwal, Adam Herscher , Jeff Powers Advisor: Elliott Soloway