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USER CASE SCENARIOS
Spacebook is a place where many different people with many different hobbies meet.
Extreme biker
Roelof (23) studies Aerospace Technology at INHolland School in Delft. He lives with three of his best friends in the centre of Delft. His and his housemates passion, besides airplanes, is riding his BMX bike. In the centre of Delft there is hardly any opportunity to conduct his hobby and suitable places are too far away, in The Hague or Zoetermeer. There is only one location in Delft, in the middle between his school and his home, that is suitable for riding his BMX bike: Spacebook.
Usually Roelof and his housemates ride the bike on Saturday mornings, to have a good start of their weekend. Together they created the most ideal set up for riding their bikes, but it took some trying out and testing to achieve it. For this they used spaces from the library for this activity, and changed it over time until they had 3 ideal biking places: Knock out Kamikaze, Extreme Endeavor and Sweet Serenity.
Sometimes Roelof cannot wait until Saturday to ride his bike and the urge gets too strong. Using his smart phone he easily contacts his friends if they want to ride their bikes this afternoon. The moment they have settled on a time, Roelof visits the Spacebook website with an app on his phone. The interface for the phone is less extensive: Roelof can only fill out the given time and use the standard interface. Luckily his favourite BMX tracks are saved in his personal Spacebook library which he can access with his phone. This way he can always ride his bike whenever he wants to.
Mother and child
Irene (36) and Sam (6) live in the Prins Mauritsstraat, close to Spacebook. Sam will turn 7 in a week and wants to give a birthday party for some of his school friends. Unfortunately their house is really small, and a party at home is not possible for Sam. To not disappoint her son, Irene visits the Spacebook website on the home computer. Her knowledge of computers is not that big, but the Spacebook website is easy enough to work with. She only needs to fill out when the party will take place and how many children are coming, and the website does the rest! There is even a predefined setting for a party space! In 10 minutes Sam's Birthday Space is booked: a nice covered room to eat cake and drink lemonade. The children can also play outside, some small bumps are created specially for Sam's Birthday!
At the day of the party all the children meet at Sam's house. Sam is really excited because he knows what is going to happen next: they are going to watch his birthday space grow! With his 6 friends and Irene he walks to Spacebook. They are right on time, the lights are already blinking to show the structure is changing! The children are amazed: they have never seen a moving building before. After 10 minutes of looking in awe at the structure and climbing on the surface while it is growing, Sam's Birthday Space is finished. The party can now start.
After two hours of playing tag and hide and seek the party is over. Sam has had the best birthday party ever, and all his friends think he is cool to give his party in a moving building. Irene is really glad to see her son happy and is also relieve that now she has nothing to clean up. When the kids walk back to Sam's home, the lights start flashing again, and Sam's Birthday Place is slowly disappearing.
BK Beats
Every two years Stylos, the study association of the Faculty of Architecture, organises BK Beats: a party where the faculty turns into a dance floor. The party grows bigger and bigger each year, and the organization of BK Beats is looking for additional spaces to use for BK Beats.
Half a year before BK Beats takes place, the chairman of Stylos (Jan) contacts the owner of Spacebook: Ronald of TU Delft Facility Management. Together they talk about the possibilities to use Spacebook as an extention of BK Beats. Ronald is very excited by this idea and sets up a meeting between Jan and the Facility Management IT service. The IT service guy, Mitch, sets up a guest administrator account for Jan. Mitch also blocks out Spacebook for 2 full days before and after the party, so Jan and his crew have enough time to set up and remove all lighting and sound equipment. During this period no other users can book Spacebook. It also gives TU Facility Management the opportunity to conduct some maintanence work on the site.
With the guest administrator account Jan, and the rest of the Stylos board, have the freedom to create Spacebook completely to their wishes. It takes a little while before they manage full control with the advanced interface, but the result is stunning. When the BK Beats party is there, Spacebook is transformed into an interesting landscape of music podia, caberet spaces and lounge areas. A place to escape the heat and crowd of BK beats and enjoy some easy music and watch the sky.
Musician
Joost (42) works as a web developer for a big IT firm where he doesn't have a lot of contact with other people. When he is at home he loves playing his guitar and writing new songs. For Joost the best part of his music is when he can share it with other people, but not many of his friends or colleagues share the same interest.
Already a year and a half back Joost started playing his guitar at Spacebook. He would book himself a standard space on a Friday night or Saturday night once in a while and just play. Some nights people would come in and watch what he was doing and enjoy his music. Sometimes a fellow guitar player spontaneously joined him, or send him a link request in advance. Over time Joost got more and more regulars joining and watching him on those Friday or Saturday nights. Slowly Joost's music night grew into a weekly jam session where he and his new found friends would meet up.
So far Joost had always used a standard Spacebook space, it had always served his purpose. Since now the nights were growing bigger and more famous within the Spacebook community it was time for a personalized space. When Joost had to wait at work for a client, he used the time to make this personalized Spacebook space. By then he already knew what kind of space he would like to have and called his newly created space 'Joost's Jamming Place'. It is saved into the library of Spacebook, so his fellow music lovers can also use this jamming place when Joost is not around.
Group of teenagers
It is general knowledge that teenagers like to create their territory and create their own kind of identity. They also like to hang out with their friends to establish this identity and territory. Not every parent is very happy with this behaviour. The same goes for the parents of the teenagers Caro, Ayla, Dylan, Max and Wout. Teenagers being teenagers they'll look for other places to hang out and meet their friends before going to a party. Their ideal place has become Spacebook.
With their smart phones Caro, Ayla, Dylan, Max and Wout in turn book places at Spacebook. They even have made their own personal space which they call 'The Super Hangout'. For these teenagers Spacebook is a perfect place to create their own territory and identity. Via their Spacebook profiles they update everybody on their activities on the site and tell about the parties they will visit after. All their friends also own smart phones, so everybody is always up to date on the latest activities.
Spacebook is also popular with other friends of the teenagers. When their friends already booked a space on Spacebook, the teenagers use the 'link tool' to link their space to the other space. Together they hang out and together they go to parties.
It's a good way for teenagers to meet each other via Spacebook and give them literally their own identity. Spacebook is easily implemented with the already existing social media the teenagers are using, meaning the tool is easily adapted.
Lecture
Professor van der Berg teaches material technology en mechanics at several TU Delft faculties. His way of explaining the sometimes difficult material, with little models and examples, is very popular with the students. His lectures are always well attended and Professor van der Berg is about to launch a new lecture series about materials and mechanics focused on high school children.
This new lecture series is organized in collaboration with the Science Centre. Unfortunately both the Science Centre and TU Delft hardly have enough room to accommodate these lectures. Van der Berg has been very interested in Spacebook, because of the structure and materials that are used, but never had a good reason to use it himself. He asks his student assistant to help him make a booking on Spacebook, since he himself doesn't understand much of internet and computers. His assistant explains the standard interface to the professor and van der Berg finds out he is able to use Spacebook by himself.
A week before a lecture will take place professor van der Berg visits the Spacebook websites and books his own lecture space. This is made easy for the professor, since the lecture space is already given by Spacebook. He only have to fill out when the lecture will take place and how many children will visit. The best part of using Spacebook for this new lecture series is that he can use the structure as a primary example. This way professor van der Berg can make his point more clear and the children are more likely to remember the lecture.
