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ICT203 User Centerd Design - Sydney International School of Technology & Commerce

Assessment - Team Assignment

Overview

This is a team assessment. You are required to form a team of 4-5 students. This assessment aims for developing a prototype mobile application to track dying trees in a bad climate situation. The mobile application is important for several reasons: 1. Trees contribute to the environment by providing oxygen and improving air quality, 2 native trees are extinct and 3. some trees take a long time to grow and nurture.

As you are aware, Australia summer weather the heat is so severe that can damage many native trees. Having a mobile application it is not only can help to assist scientists and government authorised personnel to collect vital data in terms of understanding each tree longevity, characteristics etc for them to conduct research but it is also useful for anyone who wish to find out native trees growth. The mobile application can benefit to every primary and high schools particularly the ones who are interested into researching native trees and understand ways to keep them healthy and sustainable.

The user (anyone) can monitor trees which will be dying in some locations that require their attention. The idea is that the Tree Tracking Mobile Application (TTMT) will help people locate and track native trees survival. TTMT could be based on detecting trees' location with the GPS integrates onto a user mobile phone. This means you could design the application as a mobile phone application. However, the user will need to be able to enter in additional information about the tree locations. This should include the quantity of trees detected and characteristics of the trees such as: type, age, characteristics etc. The user will also need to be able to attach a picture of the tree on the mobile application as well.

The TTMT will also allow the user to see the locations of where trees are located in real time. The interface should also display historical trends about locations that trees are likely to experience the fire threat and pictures of the trees in those locations. This way others can go and confirm trees sightings. Finally, how the information about the trees are entered (e.g., is it a Likert rating scale? emoticons? a sliding scale?) is up to you.

Specifications

The mobile prototype will need to be able to support the following activities:

• Log in and/or register.
• Enter and edit the information about tree locations.
• Enter information and upload pictures about the trees.
• Display tree locations in real-time and show historical trends of trees in a given location.
• Display the trees spotting locations in comparison to one another (e.g., distance between them, type of location (park, fountain, lake, highway, mountain etc.), etc.)

Learning Outcome 1: plan, conduct and document usability tests of software systems;
Learning Outcome 2: describe and apply guidelines for professional practice in the ethical treatment of human research participants

Assessment Details
For this assignment, you need to write minimum of 2,500 and maximum of 3,000 (excluding references, attached article pages, and title pages) with specified questions below from above case study:

1. Research Australia Native Trees and list five top native trees which are highly prone to fire

2. Research 5 top locations that native trees were severely burnt by bushfire. Provide source of evidence from peer reviewed articles.

3. Using any free website tools to develop 5 prototype screens of the TTMT mobile application for researchers, government authority personnel , primary and high schools students to use. Screen 1 should have at least a Login page, Screen 2 to show Information about Native Trees, Screen 3 Native Trees geographic locations, screen 4 allow users to upload and share Native Trees Photos, Screen 5 Ideas for saving Native Trees and screen 6 tracking Native Trees Status and discuss each screen features and functionality in details.

4. Find five participants who can be a tester (end users/Personas) and apply this usability checklist to evaluate the Android based mobile application which you develop Discuss your findings. You must attach each participant usability checklist completed form under Appendix

5. Write five of your own relevant usability testing questions related to the testing of your mobile application. Please note your question should not be from question 4.

6. Discuss the group experience on doing this assessment and what type of challenges that you face and how did you overcome them in a page.

7. Write a half-page of your conclusion on the investigation process.

Attachment:- User Centerd Design.rar