GR1 - Task analysis
User analysis
- User Analysis:
- User Types:
- Students
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- Characteristics: high school/college (most), young (most), technologically apt (most)
- Role: Using the website as a supplement to textbooks
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ii. Teachers
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- 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.
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iii. Sentence Contributors
1.. Characteristics; Of all ages and regions. Familiar with the language information is being contributed in. Competent in using technology.
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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
Frequency
Frequently used by students.
Reading
Prerequisites
User's level of reading needs to be determined beforehand.
Subtasks
Understand the meaning
Define words you didn't understand
Focus your review on vocabulary you didn't understand.
Adding examples of user-level reading and translations
Subtasks
Provide the sentence in the foreign language
Provide the translation in the native language
Indicate what reading level is required to understand this sentence