1. Rich Meyer, FAST Program Manager
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2. Rich Meyer, FAST Program Manager
Acronym
Faculty Advancement Support Technology
An improved version of the Bio-Bibliography
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Bio-Bibliography
Achievement Report
@ UC Berkeley
Paper Document
Annual
Promotion Document
Special Characteristics
Academic Context
All Faculty
All Disciplines
All Achievements
Understandable and Reviewable by any other Academic
Objective Raw Data
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Faculty Perception
Tedious
Time Consuming
Biased
Necessary for promotion!
Is never completed annually – only for promotion
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Clear & Simple Charge
Put this report on-line
Save time
Save energy
Increase satisfaction
Collect and organize the data so that it can be reused by other significant stakeholders across campus.
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Things to Note
There are NO CEOs in an Academic Context
Most powerful Academic Senate in the World
If the faculty don’t adopt this, you have no data
If you have not data, you have no services
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Goal
Build an application FOR Faculty
Find out what they want
Find out what they don’t want
Show it to them
Test it with them
Get their feedback
Bring them chocolate!
If faculty don’t adopt it, you have no data
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8. Faculty-Centric Design
Discussed their experiences
Studied their semantics
Observed their efforts
Analyzed their tools
Assessed their mental model
Offered them a solution
And they ripped it apart
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9. Iteration So we took their feedback And did it all again
Iterative Design
We made multiple prototypes
Conducted multiple tests
Ensured that we understood what they wanted
Consistently improved our product
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Result
A web interface
Emulated a CV
To display accomplishments
Faculty friendly terms
Pre-fill portions of the report with pre-existing data
Online
Minimize mental
energy
Save time
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Scope
Phase 1 - Complete
Architectural analysis
Phase 2
User-centered scaffold of the report
User-centered design of ‘Published Works’
Automated transfer of Graduate Committee data
Automated transfer of Teaching Data
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12. Roadmap Import pre-existing data from other campus databases
CSIR and GradLink
Low Hanging Fruit
Design the Bio-Bib like a CV.
In time, it could create the CV.
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13. Rich Meyer, FAST Program Manager
To Learn More…
Thank You
To learn more
110 South Hall
10 AM, Friday
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