Human Computer Interaction Project: ProfessorAdvisor

Project related to the examination of Human Computer Interaction of the academic year 2023/2024 by the Intrusi di ACSAI Team - La Sapienza University. The project is organized by the following students:

• Veronica Di Gennaro $|$ GitHub Profile: veronicadign
• Annafabia Gai $|$ GitHub Profile: annafabia03
• Christian Gennarelli $|$ GitHub Profile: christian-gennarelli
• Daniel Y. Guarnizo Orjuela $|$ GitHub Profile: DanielGuarnizo
• Leonard Vincent Ramil $|$ GitHub Profile: LeoRamill

The theme of work that the team had to deal with is the following:

Help Sapienza students learn more about university career courses and internal internships, with a particular detail on students' opinions about professors

How did we work?

Human-Centered Design Process

The procedure we were inspired to create the digital prototype is the Human-Centered Design Process:

1. Needfinding
   • What exactly is needed? How are people currently accomplishing the goal?
   • User observation, interviews, questionnaire
2. Analysis
   • Formalize and structure the needs
   • Create interaction scenarios, stories, tasks
   • Compare current situation with expected new situation
3. Design
   • Rules, guidelines, design principles
   • Modeling and describing interaction
   • Visual layout
   • Consider all inputs from cognitive models, communications theories, organization issues
4. Iteration and prototyping
   • Design must be supported by intermediate verification
   • Evaluate the design in its partial forms: Prototypes and Evaluation metrics
   • Involving users
5. Implementation and deployment
   • Hardware and software implementation
   • Documentation

Procedure

The basic steps of creating the digital prototype are as follows:

1. Needfinding
2. Storyboarding
3. Paper ProtoTyping
4. Digital ProtoTyping

Final Results and Testing

Testing 1: Sharing Notes

Task

1. Search for the desired course name
2. Select the course of interest
3. Research the topic of that course you need notes on
4. View notes on that topic posted by other students (possibly sorted by other students' reviews)

Scenario

Imagine that you are following in the presence of the first lesson given by Giuseppe Perelli, of the teaching "Basi di Dati" and you are not clear a part of the lesson "Che cosa sono i dati?". Browse through the app to find notes on this topic, choose the ones best rated by other students regardless of the date of publication.

Sharing.Notes.mov

Testing 2: Getting to know the Professor better

Task

1. Search for the name of the professor of your interest
2. Select the desired professor
3. View the information of your interest among those available regarding the professor
4. Browse reviews and/or comments posted by other students

Scenario

You are starting the first semester of the second year of ACSAI and want to know more about your new professor Gabriele Tolomei. Use the app to review and read the full opinions of other students about him, specifically about a colleague of yours from previous years: Leonard

Getting.to.know.the.Professor.better.mov

Testing 3: Inquire about the Internship

Task

1. Search for the name of the professor of your interest
2. Select the desired professor
3. View the information of your interest among those available regarding the professor
4. Browse the available internships of the professor you are looking for

Scenario

Imagine wanting to start an internship with Professor Gabriele Tolomei. Browse through the app to inform and consult the thesis/internship topics still available.

Inquire.about.the.Internship.mov