GR1 - Project Proposal and Analysis

1. Group Members

• Aakriti Shroff
• Kyle Fisher
• Brad Cordova

2. Problem Statement 

Over the past year there has been a rapid increase in college level Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). With a large selection of courses to choose from, millions of users struggle to make an informed decision about which class to take from which provider (EDX, Coursera, Udacity, etc.). With this struggle, there arises a need for an interface that allows users to share their thoughts about courses so prospective online learners can make more informed decisions when subscribing to a course.

3. Observations

4. Interviews

We conducted 4 interviews with the users. 

5. User Classes

6. Goals

• The user is looking for an easier way to have a big picture of the species in the Aquarium.
• The user prefer to have quick access to the schedule of the exhibitions while being in the aquarium, as well as quick directions of how to get there. Also information about the number of current visitors per session so they can select one with more access to the staff.
• The users would have preferred to have more touch-screens in other floors of the Aquarium because it's interesting for the kids but they actually found no guidance on them to guide the visit. It was more a game than an aid.
• Some visitors only look around with general interest as a recreation but sometimes they see something really interesting such as a particularly colorful fish. In that situation they would like to have friendly dirent access to information about it.