Olin Degree Audit Mel Chua Rob Quimby Nick Zola Human Factors and Interface Design Nov 1, 2005

Phase 1: Proposal What is a Degree Audit? Tool for viewing progress towards a degree Goals: Create something useful for Olin Design functional system

Phase 1: Current System

Phase 2: User Interviews and Results 4 students, 2 faculty, 2 staff Students: Can I graduate? What do I still need? What degree am I closest to? Advisors: Can my advisees graduate? What do they still need? What does Olin need to offer so that they can graduate? Note: We didn’t actually interview these people.

Phase 2: Personas Audrey Holden Got-it-together ECE, certain of where she’s going Wants easy way to plan ahead and see what she’s done Neil Lennard E with…something Taken a lot of classes but not sure where he is Wants to see what he’s closest to Prof. Sophia Bentley Capable ECE Program Chair Good advisor, but lacks time Needs quick way to check on advisee progress

Phase 3: Task Matrix Tasks

Phase 3: Scenarios Neil - Choosing A Major (current system approach) Audrey - Choosing A Major (ideal system approach) Sophia - Clearing For Registration (task-based approach) Sophia and Audrey - Transfer Credit (current system approach)

Phase 3: Design Space The process of choosing a degree at Olin. And where we think we fit…

Phase 3: Initial Design Ideas

Phase 4: Low-Fidelity Prototypes AuditBar Graphic-based interface Shows visible progress toward degree Color-coded by semester Remaining reqs in white Future planning iAudit Cross between Excel and iTunes Resort by category Display options Compare multiple degrees at a time Auditime Timeline-based Expand/collapse years, including future Remaining reqs in sidebar

Phase 4: Results and Decisions Overall very positive Liked intuitive, flexible feel of iAudit/Auditime Concerned with ICB Group, no cumulative stats, pop-up windows Liked graphical, quick info-providing AuditBar Concerned with course redundancy, busy-ness, time to learn Our choice: AuditBar Design challenge (vs. recreating Excel) Innovative way of tracking degree progress Visually appealing, more interesting to create

Phase 5: First Interactive Prototype Implemented changes: New color-code Easy-to-read key Cumulative Stats No redundancy Display options Consistent results for same action Distinguish courses taken, taking, need to take Demo!

Big Lesson and Future Phases Biggest Lesson Learned: Goals aren’t sometimes foods Future Phases Heuristic Evaluation 2 nd Interactive Prototype User Evaluation 3 rd Interactive Prototype Sleep…