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GR1 - User and Task Analysis

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Both of these user groups share the following characteristics:

• Frequency of use: daily. “They They "live it.”
• Hardware: high-end laptops with plenty of memory and processing power. Usually Dell Precision workstations.

The users emphasized that efficiency is the most important aspect of UI design for them. Many of the users are familiar with both ANB and Palantir, and said that Palantir's UI is superior in both aesthetics and efficiency. They complained that ANB's UI requires too many clicks and mouse movements to perform simple, common tasks.

Task Analysis

With the back-end and database support provided by IBM, we will focus on designing effective ways to visualize data in a way that allows users to see relationships between large amounts of data efficiently. Standard data visualization tools are available from open-source libraries such as processing.js. We will select a few visualization methods (e.g. web, map, graph) to focus on, geared toward understanding the data sets for WiFi in Africa. Some high-level tasks include:

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