GR1 Analysis

User Analysis

1. Students:

• Age: mostly 17 - 30
• Gender: Any
• Culture: College students
• Language: Any.
• Education: College undergraduates and graduates
• Physical limitations: Some of them have myopia
• Computer experience: 5+ years of experience with using a computer; comfortable with keyboard and mouse
• Motivation: Registered in a class, either to satisfy a curriculum requirement or to acquire useful knowledge for personal interest or future research.
• Attitude: Ranges widely. Some wants to learn just enough information to do well on the problem sets and exams. Others have a mixed approach: if the class materials are interesting and unfamiliar, they will be willing to do a lot of work; otherwise, they will look for shortcuts to get an A.
• Domain experience: Familiar with the idea of annotating a document; most of them have done it on paper materials at least. Often receive and share annotated paper materials that are either handed down from the professor or distributed among students.
• Application experience: Ranges from none to having been annotating documents for 2+ years with Microsoft Office, Adobe or Google Doc.
• Work environment and other social context: College environment, knows some friends in the class most of the time
• Relationships and communication patterns with other people: Ranges from working alone to working in groups. When working alone, the user does not want to share all his information, but would like to ask input/inspiration from discussions with classmates occasionally. When working in groups, study is highly coordinated within the group; and ideas are constantly bounced back and forth among group members.