Sunday, March 15, 2009

Narrative for Homework #5

The group has decided to elaborate the paper prototype on the “About UA&P” feature of the proposed Campus Information Portal of the University of Asia and the Pacific. This main feature has its sub-features which are the University’s mission, vision, credo, hymn, contact information, and curriculum.

Based on the provided storyboard, once the user has clicked the “About UA&P” button, the sub-features will appear below it. These sub-features would also be in the form of buttons which have their corresponding links based on the information that they hold. For example, if the user would click on the “Mission” button, the University Mission would be displayed in the main window screen; if the user would click on the “Vision” button, the University Vision would be displayed; and so on.

For the paper prototype, two users have been chosen to test the designed user interface of the “About UA&P” feature for the proposed Campus Information Portal. Both of them are students from the said university. They are Miguel Almonte and Jasmine Quiogue. They were chosen because students are one of our considered user profiles.

When Miguel tested the user interface, we took a set of pictures of him based on how he interacted with our prototype. He was able to click on all of the sub-features of our prototype, thus, he managed to see all of the available information that would be included once the portal has been set up.

In the case of Jasmine, we took a video clip of her showing how she managed to explore our prototype based on the chosen information that she would want to see. She just chose to click on some of its sub-features. Nevertheless, she was still able to view the same information that Miguel encountered.

Fortunately, none of our testers had come across any problems, slips, or user breakdowns when they interacted with our prototype. Both of them are able to achieve their goal of acquiring the information that they want based on our design.

Saturday, March 14, 2009

HCI Homework #5

Storyboard

Scenario:

A newly admitted student of UA&P would like to know more about the university.

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Paper Prototype

Pics:


Video:


Friday, February 27, 2009

Thursday, February 26, 2009

HCI Homework #4

Company Name: Digiraction

Brainstorm

New

-bulletin board

-public access terminal

-University calendar

-Schedules (e.g. departmental exam, online enlistment date, dropping of subjects date, payment of tuition balance date)

-curriculum

-achievers

-incoming freshmen

-campus map

-contact info of staff/department

-departmental announcements

-mission

-vision

-credo

-hymn

Old

-online room reservation

-online voting system

-Student SIS and grades/student profile

Concept Map

User profile

Student

Background: 16-20 years old, high school graduate, from decent family, up to date with the latest trends

Computer experience: computer savvy, gaming and keep entertainment files (e.g. pictures, music, movies etc.)

Task experience: working in a fast-pace environment, always cramming, multitasking

Personality: impatient

Teacher

Background: College graduate with Masteral degree, 22 years of age and up, focuses on current events particularly in the business and economics field

Computer experience: computer savvy

Task experience: create a structured and feasible plan in doing his/her responsibilities

Personality: professional

Maintenance/staff

Background: belongs to a lowly family, undergraduate, knowledgeable in manual and technical skills (e.g. electrical wirings, equipment maintenance etc. )

Computer experience: not fond of using gadgets

Task experience: monotonous cycle of routines

Personality: patient

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Welcome!

Hi Sir Joel Mendoza!!!