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Hello! Welcome to the tutorial for the RPI StudySafe app. My name is {blank} and I am one of the app’s developers in the Rensselaer IDEA lab.

In this video, I will be showing you how to use the StudySafe app. [Below], you can find the link to the StudySafe web application. For more in-depth details about StudySafe, please visit the wiki in StudySafe’s GitHub repository, whose link is also [below].

Due to the danger of COVID-19, social distancing and other restrictions have transformed the RPI campus. It’s no longer lively and full of motion. As students, we need to be careful and decisive about where we spend our time.

StudySafe helps students find a safe, quiet place to stay on campus for extended periods of time.

Imagine you are an RPI student who needs to study for their exam. Without walking to campus and checking every building, how do you know which places are safe to study right now?

"Map" Tab

When you open the StudySafe app, the first page you see is the Map. Click “Now!” to see the most recent campus activity. You can also choose the date and time you want and click “Update Graphs”. For the map, the colors of the markers indicate how full each building is relative to its maximum number of people. You can see the color legend here. When you click on a marker you can see more details. If you just want to see the basic information of buildings, you can change the map display into a table, and then you can search any building you want by typing words in the search box. Here we type “union”, and you can see these info.

Back to our map, you can select a specific building up at the top. Here we’ll choose the Rensselaer Union. The Union’s marker now appears as a star on the map.

The [blank building] has a low percentage here, so it might be a good place. But how has the number of people there changed throughout the day?

"Find a Place to Study" Tab

Click “here” to go to the Find a Place to Study Tab. We can see that the date, time, and building have already been selected for us. We can also navigate using the menu on the left and input the values manually.

This graph shows a building’s user count throughout the day. The darker bar indicates the selected hour, and the unfilled bars indicate future predictions. If we scroll down, we are given a recommendation on whether or not this is a good place to study. If the Puckman icon is holding a smiley face, this is a good place to study! If he’s holding a frown face, we might want to try somewhere else.

"Quick Compare" Tab

What if we want to compare several buildings at once? Click on the “Compare” button below Puckman to navigate to the Quick Compare tab.

Again, we can see that the date, time, and building have been pre-selected. Select other buildings to compare them with each other.

The graph on top shows how full each building is. The unfilled boxes indicate the buildings’ capacity, while the filled boxes show the number of users at that time. The line plot below shows user count throughout the day.

We hope you enjoyed this tutorial! Help us make the app better by participating in our Usability Study or filling out our brief Survey. If you want to get involved with this project, please check out the StudySafe GitHub and contact [someone] for more information!

Thanks for watching!