The E-commerce Architecture Project at MIT is an initiative to explore the design, technical, legal and business inputs to information architecture in the virtual world.




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Mid-term Projects

Hongyu Cai
Course4, SMArchS
Qian Yi
Course4, SMArchS
Yao Wang
hongyu@mit.edu
qianyi@mit.edu
tu2wang@yahoo.com
http://contractsxml.org/ecap/qianyi/midterm/homepage/index.htm
Lin Bu
Advanced Study Program of Center Advanced Education Service of MIT
bulin@mit.edu
>topic:
Web site structure of B2B marketplace
>description:
if we use Yahoo browser to search "Wine", there are 5000 >web sites and half million pages available, what will you do? the >propose of this project is analysis what should be the contents of web >site according your business concept and market strategy; the structure >of web site to meet different USER's interesting(quickly and easy). >Building a test web site of B2B marketplace. >group: find same person who has knowledge of web applications(as design, >software), it could be a better combination with my business knowledge & >experience.
PRESENTATION

Weiling Huang
GSD
Shi-Ping Lin
GSD

whuang@gsd.harvard.edu
slin@gsd.harvard.edu
Topic:
E-marketplace for Agriculture Products to "exchange season"
Description:
The traditional market is limited by location and time. Meanwhile, the traditional market is hard to make all seasonal products been bought or sold at the right time and right place. It waste a lot of money and many product been destroyed. For example, if A wants to buy the most popular roses at Boston, and B happened to have the same roses, not that popular, but at San Francisco. Seasons Exchange creates the opportunity for A and B to trade. It helps more sellers and buyers to meet each other. In collusion, we create an E-market for seller/buyer at different location to "exchange seasons".
PRESENTATION
Ian Sheard
Course4, SMArchS- Design Technology
isheard@mit.edu
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Richard L. O'Bryant
Course 11, Planning Support Systems Group
obryant@mit.edu
CamfieldEstates.net
This class project is focused on developing a Web Portal for the Camfield Estates-MIT Creating Community Connections Project. The Camfield Estates-MIT Creating Community Connections Project is a study of a low-income housing development that its residents are equipped with a personal computer and Internet access. The front page will include options such as home page, my Camfield, Camfield Estates, NTC (Neighborhood Technology Center), My Community, and Help. For the purpose of this class I will focus on two components the NTC (online course registration, online training and online help) and My Community (business resources, community organizations, community calendar, discussion forums, chat, email list serves, and administrative functions).

http://contractsxml.org/ecap/obryant/assign/camfieldwebpage.html
http://contractsxml.org/ecap/obryant/assign/camfieldwebpage2.html
PRESENTATION
Jason W. Hart
Course 4, MArch Level 2
Anthony Louis Guaraldo
Course 4, MArch level II

jwhart@mit.edu
phosis@hotmail.com
Topic:
Working prototype - 'the bidding machine'
Description:
Today's building industry is based on the archaic principles of product price comparison and 'sealed envelope' bidding. Our goal is to lift the existing veil of comparison in lieu of a competitive process intended to benefit both 'buyers' and 'sellers.' This will be accomplished through the creation of an open competitive bidding market on the World Wide Web, within the building industries private sector. The effect of this new market will be reduced product costs, increased product quality, and the creation of a supplier/product database for the use of an international audience. Registered manufactures, suppliers and 'buyers' will create a community of 'cut-throat' interaction!

PRESENTATION
http://contractsxml.org/ecap/phosis/midterm

Tai Hung Chen
Landscape Architecture, GSD

tchen@gsd.harvard.edu
Topic:
landscapearchitecture.tv
Description:
I will make a web site that connects individual landscape designers, individual clients, and landscape equipment vendors.
Goals
1. Providing various landscape architecture knowledge and consulting to the consumers.
2. Providing project opportunities to individual landscape architects, contractors, and related vendors.

midterm/Tai/index.htm
DOCUMENT

Ying Lee
Media Lab, PhD

leeying@mit.edu
Topic:
eLearning Environment
Group:
looking for people with similar interests and enthusiasm to create a virtual learning community.
Description:
The mission is to bring people with various backgrounds and motivations together and learn in self-created communities.

http://contractsxml.org/ecap/leeying/project/elearn.doc http://contractsxml.org/ecap/leeying/project/elearn.html

Edwin Lau
Course 4, MArch Level III

Manan H Shah
Course 4, MArch Level III
Samuel Hoang
Course 4:M.Arch level 3
edwin@mit.edu
manan@mit.edu

samhoang@hotmail.com

http://contractsxml.org/ecap/samhoang/smartpimp/index.html
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Frederick Goff
MOT at Sloan
fjgoff@mit.edu
Topic:
website for non-profit group Partners for Youth with Disabilities
Description:
Hopefully this project will actually be implemented. I am on the Board of Directors for this group which has many programs benefitting disabled youth in the Boston area. The core of the programs are based around mentoring and empowerment. An information only site can be found at www.pyd.org. I hope to design (and implement?) as comprehensive site which allows for community interaction, information delivery, and resource access. Audience is participants, volunteers, funders, staff, board, interested parties, other non-profits. Among goals is focus on scalability for future growth. (may be getting funding to expand towards national platform). I would love to have someone with strong computer/technical skills to work with me on this real world application of a 297 project.
Kris Kolodziej
Course 11, Planning Support Systems Group
kwk@mit.edu
Topic:
Improving URISA's web site usability and design
Description:
Urban and Regional Information System Association (URISA) serves the IT/GIS professional community. Its web site has two purposes: (1) collaborative effort by providing IT/GIS information; (2) e-commerce by advertising its publications sale, workshops and conferences. The project consists of doing a survey and getting feedback from the users how to improve the site. URISA's site has multiple audiences made up of different groups of users that have different concerns and interests. The goal of this project is to offer the user the ultimate user experience by such measures as improving the site usuability and desing, strenghtining its collaboration effort, and...
PRESENTATION
DOCUMENT
Konstantinos Tsakonas (L)

Janet Fan
Course 4, S.MArchS (Design Tech) / M.Arch Candidate 2002
tsakonas@mit.edu
janetgf@mit.edu
Project Name:
Agent Chameleon
Topic:
knowledge and talent acquisition in intranets
Description:
Today's technologies for the automation of unstructured information for purposes of learning and collaboration in intranets are ineffective, noisy and inaccurate.We build two environments- one is simulating the MIT intranet and the other is a new web-based learning community. The process should help us draft the specifications for the agent.
http://contractsxml.org/ecap/janetgf/
Christoph Michels
Course 4,MArch I
Gwendolyn Kerschbaumer
Course 4, MArch level I
clmichel@stud.arch.ethz.ch
gkerschbaumer@yahoo.com
Our project is a web site that makes special lectures from all disciplines (literature, architecture, government, etc.) available on the net. For the beginning the realm of the net would include the Harvard and/or MIT community, with the idea that it could expand as other universities and institutions (MOMA, Smithonian, etc.) could join on the basis of contributing and benefiting from each other.
http://contractsxml.org/ecap/clmichel/assign/lectures-online/index.html
Marco Escobedo
Media Lab, 1st Year
marcoe@media.mit.edu
TOPIC:
Agricultural Trading
Description:
ecommerce system to support buying and selling of agricultural products (especially fruits and vegetables). Portal to present diary market pricing information and to establish links between buyers and sellers. Online negotation using direct communication between potential buyers and sellers, e.g., synchronous voice communication involved.
PRESENTATION
DOCUMENT
http://contractsxml.org/ecap/marcoe/ecom
Dan Mihai Muntean
Course4, SMArchS (Architecture @ Urbanism)
dmuntean@mit.edu
My topic is "Invitation to collaborate" and is on a webpage within a proposed SMArchS student website. In this collaboration some SMArchS students will become teachers and others students. They will teach, learn and collaborate respectively on the net.
http://contractsxml.org/ecap/dmuntean/index.html
Ayan Sen(L)

ayan@mit.edu
This is a web site that provides information base about Real estate investment trusts traded in Wall street to potential investors about their ongoing projects that might create an information advantage to all buying shares in these companies. These is a B2C situation which could get further complex if other industry players such as architects and construction suppliers could join the chain. As the potential investor, know about these companies and their assets and new projects , they invest in these stocks and value of the stock rises, can have links to ameritrade etc... builders/architects/engineers also wait for the information updates which is a professional source of interaction between them a B2B situation.

PRESENTATION

Nancy Liao
Course 4, MArch thesis candidate

Robert Brown
Course 4 - Master of Architecture Thesis Candidate
nhliao@mit.edu
rsbrown@mit.edu
http://contractsxml.org/ecap/rsbrown/elearn/index.htm
Tania Urvois
MArch I 3rd year, GSD
Claudia M Abonia
turvois@hotmail.com
claudia7@MIT.EDU
>PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
> >Tania and I are working on WYNK, a web-based university information system that tells >students, faculty and administrators "What They Need to Know". The core of this >information gathering system is ICE or the "Interactive Course Evaluation" >project. Taking full advantage of the real-time publication capabilites of the >web, ICE not only reports the results of course evaluations and Q&A >sessions, but also gathers real-time ongoing chat about the courses and allows >for downloaded video clips of lectures. ICE is being developed with the >understanding that a course is more than its course description, and professors >often offer more than what their bios state...
http://contractsxml.org/ecap/index
Jooyeol Oh
March level III

ohj@mit.edu
Topic:
21st century k-12 consulting; meeting the standards this project hopes to generate an idea about how educational consultants and schools can form a consortium to provide customized electronic consulting to school districts in the u.s. to better meet the national and state standards.

http:// web.mit.edu/~ohj

Juan D. Velasquez (L)
Course 6, PhD
jvelas@ai.mit.edu
Hyoung S Lee
4.xxx, M.Arch III
oten@mit.edu
Keon-Soo Nam
Course 4, MArch level II
ksnam@mit.edu
Kyung-A Lee
Course 4, MArch Level III
kyalee@mit.edu
Beng-Kiang Tan (L)
DDes program, GSD
btan@gsd.harvard.edu
Roberto OKADA
Ph.D., School of Project Design
Miyagi University
okir@qg7.so-net.ne.jp


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