1. Sisters of the Academy Website Conceptual Model BY Delane Abigt Matthew Burleson Evette Reese

2. Sisters of the Academy The website design is intended to be simplistic. The functional design is intended to bring content to the user with minimal mouse clicks. Not all the pages are included in this conceptual model. The home page left sidebar links are the pages included with this model. An online membership application submission and payment process is to be included. An online membership directory will be included. A membership biography add/update process will be included that will be displayed as a “more information” link in each member’s directory entry.

3. Lexicon SOTA – acronym for Sisters of the Academy Academy – a reference to doctoral members of the SOTA organization Sisters – refers to the members of SOTA Student members – matriculating masters and doctoral degree students Professional members – members who are practicing professionals and administrators Associate members – members that have a terminal/professional degree Terminal degree – the highest degree sought Research – the focus of higher degree students and practicing professionals

4. Object-Action Analysis About – a page containing an explanation of the Sisters of the Academy organization  View – view the description of the SOTA organization Contact – a page containing Sisters of the Academy contact information  View – view the SOTA organization contact information Member – a member of the Sisters of the Academy  Join – fill out the member application and pay the membership fee Membership Directory  Search – look for a member by name, research interests, school affiliations, professional affiliations  Browse – browse the membership directory Membership application O Submit – a member applicant may submit a membership application online O Preview – someone interested in joining may preview an application without having to submit one by not clicking on the submit button, or closing application window without clicking the submit button Biography – a form that members may submit online to provide more information to be included in the membership directory  Add – a member may choose to submit a biography form online  Change – a member may choose to submit changes to their biography information online Events List  View – view the list of upcoming events and recent historical events  Check event details – view one of the event details Announcements  View – view all the SOTA announcements Research page  View – view the research related events  Check event details – view one of the research event details

5. Use Case Scenarios 1. Searching for a member with related research interests. Monica is looking for a colleague that is interested in software user interface research. She goes to the SotA website’s home page and clicks on the “Membership” link in the left sidebar because she knows there is a search mechanism on that page for research interests. Monica then enters “software user interface” in the search box and clicks the search button. A formatted list of all members is displayed that contains all three search words in their “research interests” information. Monica finds 2 members that she would like to find more information about, so she clicks on each of their name links to see the detailed information on each member. Monica clicks their email links and sends an email to each to initiate a conversation. 2. A user would like to update their professional affiliations in their member biography information. Ann has just joined the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and she wants to update her SotA biography information to reflect this. She goes to the SotA website’s home page and clicks on the “Membership” link in the left sidebar. On the membership page she clicks on the “add or update biography info” button. The biography submission page is displayed. Ann gives her key identifier information and adds the ACM to the professional affiliations section of the form and clicks on the “update biography” button. The membership page is displayed with a message indicating that the biography information will be updated with the next group update. Ann then clicks on the left sidebar link to the events page to see what are the upcoming events.

6. Use Case Scenarios (cont.) 3. Member wishes to see what are the current SotA events. After Ann clicks on “events” on the left sidebar link, the events page is displayed. It contains a listing of all upcoming events that are planned and the more recent past events. She determines that the upcoming writing symposium is an event she would like to attend. Ann takes out her cell phone and adds a calendar entry for the event. She then exits the website. Ann is curious what the latest announcements are so she clicks on the Announcements link on the left sidebar. On the page is a professor of her alma mater. She decides to contact this member so she clicks on the Membership link on the left sidebar. On the membership page she clicks on the membership directory link and then clicks on the letter of this member’s last name. She scrolls down the list and finds this member’s email. Ann clicks the email address to send an email to introduce herself and initiate a relationship. 4. A user wishes to join the organization online. Diane has heard about SotA from a colleague she met at a recent conference that she attended. This colleague convinced her that SotA was an effective support organization, so she has gone to the SotA website to find out how to join. She clicks on the large prominent button at the top of the main page that reads “Come Join Us”. The new membership page is displayed that shows the membership types and their associated membership fees. She selects the membership type and provides her name and address information in the small form at the bottom of the page and clicks the “complete membership” button located near the form fields. The rest of the membership application is displayed. She completes the form fields and clicks on the paypal link to submit the form and provide the credit card information for payment.

7. Use Case Scenarios (cont.) 5. A user would like to know what the SotA organization is about. After surfing the net for a time, Roberta has stumbled upon the SotA website. She’s intrigued by the website’s presentation and subtitle. She begins by clicking on the “About Us” link on the left sidebar. The about us information is informative but she hasn’t figured out how the organization’s claims will be fulfilled. She clicks on the “Research” link to see what that is about. Roberta is pleased to see the organization’s emphasis on research. She clicks on the “Research Writing Symposium” link to see what this event is about. She then clicks on the “Research Boot Camp” link that is on the research writing symposium page. She then clicks on the “Research Directory” link on the research boot camp page. All these links are on every research related page and are in the same position at the top of the main content area on each of these pages. She likes what she sees so far, so she then clicks on the “Events” link on the left sidebar. She sees that there is a Research Boot Camp event coming up during the spring semester so she makes a note to herself to join and sign up for the boot camp at the beginning of February. She takes a look at the membership page by clicking on the “Members” link in the left sidebar. She sees the recent announcements of membership accomplishments and imagines her name in the list in the future. She clicks on the “View Membership Directory” to see what school affiliations the SotA membership contains. She’s now convinced that membership would be a good idea and plans to join close to the event date she wishes to attend. Having made this decision she bookmarks the website and continues to surf the net.

8. Home page

9. Members page

10. Events page

11. Announcements page

12. Research page

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