GR1 - Task analysis
User analysis
- User Analysis:
- User Types:
i. Students
- Characteristics: high school/college (most), young (most), technologically apt (most)
- Role: Using the website as a supplement to textbooks
ii. Teachers
- Characteristics: Ages and technological aptitude both vary. Purpose is to effectively educate students in the foreign language.
- Role: Select proper supplementary material for students, also contributes supplementary material.
iii. Sentence Contributors
iv. Textbook Publishers
Task analysis
Finding reading material
Prerequisites
User is reading out of a textbook for which sentences have been added to the database.
- textbook will only have to be specified once. Chapter will be periodically updated
- may want to persist this information (using a login system)
User is studying a course for which the teacher has aggregated sentences.
Subtasks
Inform the system of what textbook you're reading, and what chapter you're reading in.
Inform the system of any particular idioms, grammar patterns, or vocabulary you'd like to practice.
Time constraints
A first-time user will want to be able to access reading material as soon as possible, hence this should take as little time as possible
If a user is not using a textbook that is in the system, his reading level will have to be evaluated based on yes/no sentences.
Reading
Adding examples of user-level reading and translations
Find reading material that is at my reading level, and read it.
Specify to the website what textbook you're learning from, what chapter you're in.
Lookup readings and definitions of unknown characters
Find more examples of a certain idiom usage.
Add examples of reader-understandable sentences.
Assemble a collection of sample sentences for your course from existing sentences on the website.
Contribute translations of existing sentences.