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This assignment has been designed for students to provide necessary experience in understanding the use of mobile technology to improve real world processes through new mobile services.
An individual project weighted at 50%
You will conduct a field study in your domain of interest. The goal is to obtain key insights that are grounded in real-world behaviours for identifying possible applications and services to create in your mobile system development. You will collect a variety of data using multiple research methods during your field study.
Research Questions: You should begin with the research questions for your research. What do you need to know beyond your existing secondary research to understand how people approach your topic area today? Cover the appropriate breadth and depth to gain the understanding needed to design your app.
Participant Selection: Participant recruitment is extremely important in generative research. You must choose the kind of people who will give you most insight into your research questions and could be potential users of your ultimate system. This likely means that your participants might not be fellow students and you might have to approach different set of participants. Enumerate criteria that will help you identify a range of behaviours and attitudes with respect to your domain.
Research Methods: Use interviews and at least one additional research method with each of your participants to answer your research questions. Try to combine qualitative and quantitative methods to fully understand your domain.
Research study: Perform a study with at least 3 to 5 people using the methods you have selected. Take pictures of your participants and their environment as it pertains to your domain (with permission). Audio record (with permission) your session so that you can pull out quotes later.
Direct quotes & observations: After interviewing your participants, take notes on post-it notes, noting the exact quotes of what your participants say or direct observations of what they are doing. You do not need to write down everything, just the statements that pertain to the research questions. Do not (yet) try to analyse what they are saying or doing, just write exactly what is said or done. Also create note cards for any diary entries that the participants gave you or direct observations from home/site tours.
Participant profiles: Create a 1-page interview summary per participant with pictures. If the participant prefers to be anonymous, change the name and use a blurred photo for the profile picture.
A note on informed consent: You should inform your users about the study prior to starting the interview or diary study. Make it clear that all names will be anonymized, that this study is for a class project, and that there are no anticipated risks for participating. If you are audio/video recording, make sure they know that. Also make it clear that they can stop or skip a question at any time if they are uncomfortable.
Affinity Analysis: Perform an affinity analysis on the data that you collected in your study. It should have three levels of hierarchy: the first and lowest level is the exact quotes or observations from your participants. The second level should be a first-person sentence summarizing the (generally 3-5) notes below. The top level should be a more declarative statement about user behaviour. Create design ideas directly grounded in your data. You should be able to easily come up with 10+ application ideas that can be directly inspired by the data you collected and themes that you found.
You are required to create a mobile application based on the design ideas extracted from your generative research. The implementation scenario must not deviate from the research area adopted in your generative research.
The mobile application must satisfy the following requirements:
The marks allocation of the assignment is divided into five parts; 30 marks are allocated to the project proposal (generative research and supported proposal documentation) , 14 marks for the report (problem solving and design) to accompany the application, 35 marks for the developed mobile application, 14 marks for the mobile app testing and 7 marks for the App Demo.
Components | Marks allocated |
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Project Proposal | |
Generative Research and Affinity Analysis Documentation • Generative Research o Research Questions o Research Methods o Participants Details • Affinity Analysis o Three Levels of Data Hierarchy o First Level Quotes o First Person Summarized Notes o Declarative Statements on User Behaviors o Design IdeasProposal Documentation • Abstract • Introduction and Related Work • Motivation (based on generative study) • Description of Project (key use cases, design strategies, technical requirements) • Tasks and Milestones (Gantt chart) • References • Project Proposal Presentation (YouTube link in the report) |
30 |
Problem solving and design (content in the documentation) • System description – problem identification and proposed solutions • Wireframe and System Architecture Design |
14 |
Mobile Client System • Appropriateness of the user interface • Program functionalities and mock-ups • Appropriateness of the mobile data access implementation • Intuitive usage of both textual and image based binary data • Mobile Adaptive Design |
35 |
Automated System Testing • Utilization of App Testing Frameworks • Automated Test Report |
14 |
Mobile App Demo and Supported Documentation • App execution – Presentation • Knowledge of the app created • Recorded App demo (Video) • User Manual |
7 |
Development Tools
A generative research study proposal and demonstration of your mobile app to the lecturer
**Zero marks will be allocated to app demo, Android solution and problem solving and design.
**A maximum of 30 marks will be allocated for the coursework assessment (based on the submitted work of project proposal).
Generative Research and Project Proposal
Marks will be allocated on the basis of your ability to perform a coherent, clear and in-depth understanding of your domain. Your project proposal must accompany with a recorded presentation (YouTube upload link or private repository). You will be awarded with:
Grade | Criteria |
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Fail | Not able to articulate and explain basic needs of generative research. |
Marginal Fail | Able to demonstrate some understanding of generative research Mostly not able to adopt any research methods and no video presentation provided. |
Pass | Your domain understanding and presentation must be clear, but may suffer from a lack of organization and novelty. Able to demonstrate all the processes adopted for the generative research in the recorded presentation. |
Credit | As above Well organized and prepared Able to clearly relate adopted design ideas to solve the problem context. Your proposal covers majority of the domain areas in the proposed system. |
Distinction | As above Your proposal must have an extra spark in terms of its novelty that makes it stand out from the similar systems. This grade is reserved for those proposals and presentations that are of an excellent standard. |
Marks will be allocated on the basis of your ability to deliver a coherent, clear and in-depth understanding of your application. Your demonstration must accompany with a recorded video (app demo). You will be awarded with
Grade | Criteria |
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Fail | Not able to articulate and explain basic functionality of the application. Poor syntax knowledge regarding Android development, no video demo recorded. |
Marginal Fail | Able to run the app and explain some functionalities Mostly not able to answer any questions about the app and no video demo recorded. |
Pass | Your solution delivery and presentation must be clear, but may suffer from a lack of organization. Able to explain all the functionalities and answer some questions |
Credit | As above Well organized and prepared Able to clearly answer questions from your lecturer about your application. Your examples cover the majority of the functionality of the system, and are well chosen to do so. |
Distinction | As above Presentation must have an extra spark that makes it stand out from the other presentations. This mark is reserved for presentations that are of an excellent standard. |
This component will be assessed through your electronic submission (app) reviews and experiments. You will be awarded with:
Grade | Criteria |
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Fail | Your application cannot compile with native Android development tools. |
Marginal Fail | Incomplete application and major functions not working. Only UI without any backend coding. |
Pass | The application works properly having met basic requirements with some limitations or minor errors. |
Credit | As above without any errors. Average system – validations, standard design and appropriate storage techniques implemented |
Distinction | As above Application must have an extra spark that makes it stand out from other systems. This mark is reserved for application that has outstanding combination of functionalities and mock-ups, good UI /UX, third party frameworks / SDKs and good development practices. |
This report must provide the complete contents based on the requirements to be awarded with:
Grade | Criteria |
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Fail | Incomplete report just comprising of manually performed test cases |
Marginal Fail | Incomplete report and missing major parts of the test cases |
Pass | Test report is easy to read and adequately meet test framework utilization with some deficiencies of missing workflows in applied test cases |
Credit | Satisfactorily meets most of the requirements with minor omissions on some testing areas |
Distinction | A very good document has been produced showing no deficiencies in workflow requirements needed in test cases. The document is like a professional standard |
Grade | Criteria |
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Fail | Incomplete report cannot be easily read by your lecturer and missing major parts |
Marginal Fail | Incomplete report and missing some parts of the problem solving and design areas |
Pass | Report must be easily read and adequately meet problem solving and design requirements with some deficiencies such as limited architectural coverage |
Credit | Satisfactorily meet all requirements better than above. |
Distinction | A very good document has been produced showing no deficiencies in problem solving and design requirements. The document is like a professional standard. |
Deliverables
Documentation format
Presentation
You will be notified of the time and date of your presentation during the lecture and the presentation schedule will be made available on Moodle.