Software CA presentation
- 1. Software CA Presentation Alix Rhodes N00112116 Children’s Gaming and Learning App
- 2. Introduction: • A learning application for children through gaming, to be used as homework, class work, to help children struggling in certain topics, or even for them to play at home. • Users: Child: Can play games, learn, do homework, view high scores, take tests, play games with their parents or friends. Teacher: Can use it to help individual children in their class, create a lesson in it for the whole class, resource learning, keeping up with each child’s progress, set homework on it. Parent: Can keep up to date with their child’s class work, view their progress in each topic, see what they might need a little more assistance in, join in and play games with their child or speak to the teacher through a private mailing.
- 3. Persona: • Child: John smith, 6 years old, Second class. • Is having it difficulty when it comes to reading, falling slightly behind the other children. John is aware the other children can read better than him and so whenever he’s asked to read out in class he starts to stutter out of nerves. • Teacher: Ms. Jennings. • Began her career as a resource teacher, moved on to taking second class full time as well as resource teaching the other classes during certain periods and individuals. Loves to engage children and teach them to love learning.
- 4. Persona • Parent: Sandra • Loves to get as involved as possible in the children’s school lives and keeping them very active after school as well as on weekends. She’s always been interested in education and would do anything to help and spend more time with her children.
- 5. Software development process: My approach (Methodology)
- 6. Followed prototyping process method: Iterative approach: My version (Methodology) Evaluation and testing Users • Define app • Define users • Requirements gathering online • Requirements gathering specification • Define functionality •Use case diagrams •User scenarios/stories •Questionnaires •Sketches (Low fidelity prototype) •Interface design •User centered design •Usability testing •User experience •User acceptance testing •User centered design Requirements gathering Implementation • Testing • Prototype • Maintenance
- 7. Development Process (Methodology) • Iterative as, you need to test the ideas with users at all stages in the design process. • Key elements of the design should emerge from the requirements analysis – User centered design, user stories and scenarios emerge. • The need to define the users is very important as Designers are not always typical users, also they’re too expert and can fail to empathize with the needs of first time users • (Laurel, 1990).
- 8. User Centered Design (Methodology) • Software design is the portion of the development process that is responsible for determining how the program will achieve the user’s goals(Cooper, 1995). • Focusing on: Needs of users (support their goals), Limitations of end users, Preferences of end users, Business objectives • Importance: Satisfy the user with a more efficient and user-friendly experience, Increase loyalty and return visits, Establish a more relevant and valuable website, Create websites that supports rather than frustrates the user. (User acceptance testing & compatibility with user experience – feedback –UCD repeats: iterative process).
- 9. Requirements analysis: • “How will the software be used? Who will use it? How frequently? For how long? What feature are they using? What is usually a source of frustration?” Cooper, 1995). • User Stories and scenarios were based on the online and specification requirements gathering. • Helping define the functional (To be able to login/out, go forward&back, checks off sections are you go through..ect.) and non-functional requirements (Home button, stating the score after each game, keeping the user up-to-date with what they’ve done.)
- 11. Interface design • Pressman’s Principles, User in control (accessing, back & forward), Keep interface consistent, Demands on memory. • Nielsen (1994). Heuristic approach: Minimalistic, real world, Recover from error. • Understand users goals. Properly labelled interface, intuitive icons, Jones (2011). USD. Users scan a page not read – Stand out, instant gratification. • Strive for simplicity. No manual needed. • Responsiveness, targets, (Navigation and user input). First impressions. Stark (2012).
- 12. Interface Design
- 13. Testing • Questionnaire • Low fidelity prototype (sketches) – Feedback • Prototype draft, Usability testing & user experience testing: “Would you be able to navigate this without my help? Are the icons intuitive? What is your general opinion on the overall look and feel of this scenario? , Did this app follow the standard style of other apps, therefore making it easy for first time users of this app but not apps in general?” – Feedback • Finished prototype, expanding the already incorporated user centered design based on feedback. • Robertson (1994) suggests testing procedures for educational software to create a quasi-user-centered design approach for educational software development. Multidisciplinary design teams, each with individual needs, and including children on testing teams.
- 20. Axure demo • PLAY CAMTASIA VIDEO.
- 21. Refernces • Cooper, A. (1995). About face: The essentials of user interface design. CA: IDG Books, Worldwide, Inc. • Laurel, B. (1990). The art of human-computer interface design. (pp. 8-10). USA: Apple Computer, Inc. • Robertson, J. W. (1994). Usability and children's software: A user-centered design methodology. Journal of Computing in Childhood Education, 5(3-4), 257-271. • http://mobile.smashingmagazine.com/2011/05/02/auser-centered-approach-to-mobile-design/ • http://www.usability.gov/basics/ucd/index.html • Jones (2011) http://designfestival.com/5-principles-ofuser-centered-interface-design/ • Stark (2012) http://www.netmagazine.com/features/10principles-mobile-interface-design
Editor's Notes
- #16: Child account screen. Feedback: Icons were collectively thought to be intuitive however needed “Jazzing up” A childrens learning app should be colourful and fun, no grey buttons. Keep writing on buttons but make them colourful more like icons, make the pictures bigger make it all about the playing not the learning
- #17: End of child’s reading game.
- #18: Teachers account screen. Make it consistently colourful with the children’s app. What about previously created lessons? And chat to parents option should be a lot more visible on teachers account too.
- #19: Teachers “Add students to lesson” screen. Feedback: Select all children button? Either change check box option or make names and selectable area larger as finger size might be bigger than check box and accidentally select other choices.
- #20: Parent’s “view child’s progress” screen. Feedback:If going to make the child account colourful also make the teacher and parents account colour to keep consistancy