Roommates

Department: Computer Science

Group Members: Carlos Csiszer, Brooke Gallagher, Daniel Katz, Madeline McCann, Trinity Sheppard, Cristian Taveras

Client: Kurtis Watkins (Stevens Residence Life)

Advisor: Prof. David Klappholz

Cybersecurity Advisor: Prof. Sven Dietrich

Project Description: Students about to enter college who intend to live in dormitories are often paired with incompatible roommates. The purpose of this project is to develop a software system that will aid students in avoiding this sort of problem. Students about to enter Stevens -- or upper class students about to request dormitory rooms -- will be invited to take web-based compatibility-related surveys, surveys developed through the use of focus groups of both freshmen and upperclassmen who live or have lived in dormitories; the results of the surveys will be used to suggest potential matches to entering students, and the system will then enable them to communicate with one another by email; once students have made their decisions, the system will enable students to forward them to Residence Life, the Stevens office that operates the dormitory system.