HCDE Sprint 2: Interaction Design
This week’s sprint entailed the creation of an interactive application for a citizen scientist. For my use case, I created a mobile application for a Citizen Scientist at the University of Washington. As a part of the ESRM101 course, each student was required to record daily the pH and other data of Lake Washington. With this application the user can easily access their data using the calendar view, and see which days their peers entered information into their total class database.
Using the Analytics view, the user can also see and compare their general data. Using the Entry View, the user is able to enter information into a survey style web form. They record important information like Today’s Date, location, photos of the area, and three entries of the pH level of the lake.
In my table group, we each considered how to keep the Citizen Scientist from recording false or incorrect data into the general database. We decided to have the user agree to a “Terms and Conditions” page each time they logged on, in order to ensure each user inputs valid information as to not skew the data.
I felt more confident creating a data management tool in this sprint, as opposed to the other sprint last week. I have been interning since this past summer at a tech startup in Seattle (Transpose) that specialized in creating similar custom data management applications for SMBs/other professionals.
I was influenced in this sprint by aspects of Transpose’s formatting, for example submitting the Citizen Scientist data entry as a complete web form as opposed to entering one piece of data per screen and hitting a “next” button. I did decide to create three main buttons on the bottom of each screen, for more simplified access to the three aspects of the application.
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