1. Team: Pavlov’s Dogs Project: Pool Part y Mike Abegg Chris Ballenger Tom Scarborough Alex Towell Client: Dr. Michael G. Dudley Assistant Professor Psychology Department

2. Situation Psych 111 students are required to participate in six credit hours of experiments designed by faculty and students – Posted in the basement of Alumni Hall – Participants must sign up for an experiment compatible with their schedule – Bring a participant card to the experiment – Experimenter stamps the card as proof of participation – Coordinator generates participation report

3. Problem Cumbersome and insecure – Lost participation cards – Forged participation cards Inconvenient – Excess paperwork – Must travel to Alumni Hall – Participation report generated manually

4. Psychology Department Needs A system for managing the experiment participation pool that is convenient, secure, less error prone, and automated. No lost/forged participation cards Paperless No travel-time Automated report generation

5. Requirements Web-based Multi-user Compatibility – Existing system – Existing workflow

6. Users Participants – Psych 111 students who participate in experiments Experimenters – Psych students/faculty who design and conduct experiments Coordinators – Administrator – Generate participation reports

7. Functionality: User Management Users have to register Update user details Coordinator approval of experimenters Experimenters confirm if a participant participated Participant availability schedule

8. Functionality: Experiment Management Handle multiple experiments Experimenters need to be able post, update, and cancel experiments Search experiments based on – Schedule – Restrictions – Credit Hour – Category Sign up for an experiment Cancellation of participation

9. Other Functionality Generate a report of experiments and participants Send email notifications – Reminders – Updates – Cancellations – System status

10. Analysis Methods Interviewed client and will continue to do so Observed Psych 111 student signing up for experiments Intend to perform usability studies with paper prototypes Intend to interview experimenters and participants

11. Workflow Experiment Experimenter Posts Participant Selects Experiment First thing that has to happen is that an experimenter must post an experiment All available experiments and there availability schedules are presented to the participants, and the participants self select which experiments to participate in. Experimenter Conducts Experiment Participant Participates The Experiment is performed by the Experimenter with one or more participants at a time until all participants have had a turn to participate. (we need to record if they did or did not) Coordinator Evaluates Experiments Experiment A Coordinator evaluates all Experiments conducted and produces a report detailing which participants participated in which experiments. The Report is broken down into individual class sections and is delivered to the professor for the appropriate section Produces Report

12. Workflow Experimenter Posting Experiment Experimenter has experiment ready to post Experimenter fills out experiment description and schedule Experimenter makes experiment available for participation

13. Workflow Participant selecting experiment Based on schedule and experiment restrictions Participant needs to find an experiment to participate in Find the list of experiments Eliminate incompatible experiments Find an experiment they like Sign up for an experiment time slot Student name, class/section/instructor

14. Workflow Experimenter conducting experiment Participant participating in experiment Experiment has been completed Experimenter is prompted to indicate if the participant participated Experimenter marks if they did or did not

15. Workflow Coordinator making report All experiments have been conducted For each participant For each experiment they participated in If they participated add the experiment’s value to their participation score, if they did not subtract Write out the participant’s score Sort participants by class and section Print out report

16. Users Experimenter Participant Coordinator Experiments Experiment … Report Coordinator makes participation report Experimenter posts experiment Participant selects experiment Participant participates in experiment Experimenter performs experiment Consolidated Workflow Model

17. Questions??