Case
You and your team will be the Interaction Design Team to analyse the 'human activity system' described below and to design and specify a set of interactions between the system's actors and technologies that will allow the system to function effectively.
Easy Book Finder (EBF)
You and your team at UC have been funded to develop a system that will improve the borrowing and lending of books in the ACT. This system, called Easy Book Finder (EBF), should enhance and better assist in improving education in the community as well as improve accessibility and sharing of book resources for all to use.
EBF have developed a concept, which will facilitate borrowing and lending book items among friends, neighbours, students, lecturers, etc. It incorporates a mobile application where people can register as borrowers and lenders. People can create groups to limit who they lend to (for example your suburb), and borrowers and lenders will be able to rate each other. The existing libraries in the ACT region will have access to the mobile application as well as people with home libraries.
Types of issues the designer might consider:
1. What happens if someone does not return the book they borrowed?
2. How can people be trusted as a borrower or a lender?
3. How can this mobile application help to enhance the education in the ACT?
4. What if something happens to the borrowed book?
5. There are many other issues that you may wish to consider in your use cases.
The funding body wishes to collect and maintain data that will report on the effectiveness of the system and determine whether further funding is required after its initial rollout. The system must provide management information and an interface for this function.
THINGS TO DO
1. A complete Data Flows, Entity Relationship Diagrams and/or State Transition Diagrams for two major activities
2. A detailed designed: use cases, activity diagrams, patterns, prototype appearance, behaviour, gestures and movements
3. Additional documentation including instructions for developers, users guides for different users (such as user help)
4. Complete and updated project plan and list of deliverables (work breakdown structure ) for whole this HCI project
a. Allocation of tasks to team members
b. Timeline
c. Project team diary
d. List of issues and risks
To get a good mark please follow the followings:
• Write your answers as you are producing a professional report
• Use clear headings for each part of your answer
• Be innovative in your answers
• Please be specific in your answers to each stage
• Make sure your answers to each stage are consistent
• Please make sure that you are aware of final deliverables in each stage and submit each stage on-time in Moodle
• Ask any questions or concerns you have from your tutor
• Research and use principles of human-centred designing interactive systems and appropriately reference them
• Refer to marking criteria to make sure that you have answered each part appropriately
• Please use appropriate referencing style
3000 words excluding references, diagrams, table of contents.