Description:

With the recent weather events in Auckland, and many other recent disasters around the world, there has lacked a central online place where those affected can go to find out specific, up-to-date information (for example, a map of flooding-affected areas and road closures). This information exists online but is often in a variety of formats and in multiple locations.

In this project, you will investigate the use of modern data gathering and analysis techniques to automatically (as much as possible) curate and summarize important information related to disasters. The ideal end goal will be a prototype app or website where users can go to be presented with the most relevant, up-to-date information based on their location.

An existing prototype app exists from a previous part-4 project. In this project, you will focus on undertaking a through analysis of the existing user interface, taking into account HCI - and more importantly, accessibility - principles. You will then refine and evaluate the prototype with a goal to be able to present the disaster information in a useful manner to users with a variety of needs - for example, "regular" users, elderly, visually impaired, etc.

Type:

Undergraduate

Outcome:

The research outcomes of the project are as follows:

1. A thorough usability evaluation of an existing prototype;
2. A literature review on HCI principles, specifically on designing for different kinds of users
3. Incorporation of various techniques to improve the existing prototype's UI
4. A thorough usability evaluation of the updated prototype.

 

Prerequisites

None

Specialisations

• Software Engineering

Categories

• Human Computer Interactions
• Smart Phone & Tablet Applications

Supervisor

• Andrew Meads

Co-supervisor

• Yu-Cheng Tu

Team

• Vishva Dave
• Aditya Sohani

Lab

Computer Science (303S.499, Lab)