T/TAC Project Group Status Report

March 19-23 , 2001

• Use cases
• Meeting with Shaungbao at 12:00 on Monday
• Interface content models
• Communication tool packages
• Poster presentation at Mild Disability Conference on March 24
• Submission T/TAC Online project to Innovations 2001 at GMU

T/TAC project subgroups developed use cases and interface content models and got feedback from team members. The suggested ideas to generate use cases and interface content models are as follows:

• Private chat is not necessary for individual consultation between a service provider and a T/TAC coordinator. Using email is an appropriate way to communicate privately.
• It is not necessary for T/TAC members to register. They only need their password to access the site. They will enter their username and password before entering the site, not at the webshop level.
• The users (service providers, parents, and general users) will register when they access the webshops. Otherwise they can access the site by simply entering their zip codes.
• It is better to work on interface content models collaboratively if subgroups has similar use cases. (Ex) consultation and follow up, asynch and synch discussions in different paths. etc.

We overviewed the maps to help Shaungbao understand a tentative hierarchy of the elements of the different paths. In addition, we discussed communication tool packages that are appropriate for T/TAC Online. However, we did not decide whether we are going to buy a package or create the tools, yet.

The following components for poster presentation were discussed.

• A topic
• A representative Picture of T/TAC Online
• Brief description/mission
• Flowchart

Next step:

• Developing Flowcharts
• Searching communication tools
• Meeting with Shaungbao on Monday next week