Attached are the screenshots of me obtaining contacts through utilizing the Google search engine. To expedite the process, I have searched the product news and focused on getting any of the executives or the head developers names. Focusing on news materials that discuss the CES or any other IT convention was an useful method to obtain the contacts.
In regards to product topic contacts, I employed the same method.
The two screenshots below are basic Google Docs screenshots to show my work:
iED Buzz! Contacts
iED Report Topic Contacts
1. Looking up Jeffery Gattis on LinkedIn; he is the executive director or global marketing at HTC
2. Looking up HTC's stock information and board of directors list from HTC's website
3. Finding Jeff Gattis' name on the relevant news material, associated with the HTC Re Vive
4. Searching for news, especially release news, on the topic of HTC Re Vive
5. Searching for the company Magic Leap, Inc. on LinkedIn for information
6. Visiting Magic Leap, Inc.'s official Facebook page for contact information
7. Looking up Bloomberg's stock information section for the names and listings of the executives of this company
8. I was finally able to find the Vice President of Games of Magic Leap through Bloomberg's stock information; Graeme Devine
9. Searching for Lorraine Bardeen, the director of studio business, strategy and operation at Microsoft
10. Looking up Lorraine Bardeen's Twitter account for contact information
11. Looking up for key executives for Microsoft Corporation from Bloomberg's investment information section
12. Looking up Microsoft's stock information webpage for executive names and most closely related representative
13. Looking up for Max Cohen, who had the biggest role in developing the Samsung Galaxy VR.
14. Cohen is the VP of Mobile at Oculus VR; he and his team are one of the core members in directly developing the Samsung VR
15. Searching for news materials on Samsung VR so that I can link the news with the executive contact
16. Searching for Max Cohen on LinkedIn for further contact information.
Now that I have provided all the screenshots taken from searching for the Buzz! contacts, I will provide the screenshots taken during the research of related product contact lists below.
1. Searching for Alpha-Fit's general information; this company is closely related with the field of wearable technology
2. Further researching the products produced from Alpha-Fit
3. Extracting contact information from Alpha-Fit's webpage
4. Initial search job on European companies that deal with wearable technology, and Alpha-Fit showed up.
5. EON Reality - it is a US company but has an European regional headquarters in the UK
6. EON Reality produces products highly related with the realization of virtual reality; their products, for example, are: EON Creator, EON Coliseum, EON SDK, EON Icube, EON Ibench, and etc.
7. Summarizing the product lists on our Google Doc report
8. Searching for more information on EON Reality on their corporate LinkedIn account
9. FabLab is a 3D printing services company located in the UK
10. FabLab's product list and services list
11. NeuroSky is originally an US company, but has its European regional headquarters in Germany
12. NeuroSky is responsible for producing products that help envision and realize the field of neuro-games. This screen shows their products listing
13. Detailed descriptions of the NeuroSky's products
This is an assignment from the Immersive Education course that I am taking at Boston College. The course is called Collaborative Computing. For details, visit the immersive BC portal at http://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc
