AgroTeleDiagnosis Scenario of use

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AgroTeleDiagnosis Scenario of use
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ATD Development Tools

• The AgroTeleDiagnosis platform has been developed
  in order to provide wireless mobile technologies
  to the agricultural sector.
• Tools used for the development of the ATD
  platform are
• ASP
• JavaScript
• XML
• MS ACCESS 2002

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ATD User Needs

• User groups
• Farmers
• Agriculturalists / Expert Agriculturalists
• Any user interested in farming or other related
  activities
• ATD User Needs aspects
• Responsive and relevant to the needs and
  potential of the farmers
• Instant solving of agricultural-related problems,
  through two-way communication between farmers and
  agriculturalists.
• To foster a reciprocal farmer to farmer and
  farmer to researcher partnership
• Integration of users interests
• Integration of traditional technologies and
  common knowledge of farmers
• Provide support to users for faster adaptation of
  the platform
• To adapt local innovation and creativity
• Dissemination of agricultural experts knowledge
• Achieve participation of all kinds of farmers
• Provision of proper technological equipment (like
  PDAs)

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AgroTelediagnosis Index Page
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Registration Page

• Users must be registered to the ATD platform
  before taking part to it.
• Users personal information is going to be used
  exclusively by the ATD platform.
• The registration consists of three steps. In the
  first step user must provide his personal
  information by submitting the available form

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Registration Page - Second Step

• In the second step, the user provides his
  desirable login details ( a username and a four
  digit password) and chooses his account status.
  The user can choose to be a member user or an
  expert user of the platform.

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Registration Page - Third Step

• In the third and final step, the user can select
  the categories of interest. If he has chosen to
  participate to the platform as an expert, he also
  has to select his main occupational preference.
• When the user completes his registration process,
  an email with his personal data automatically is
  being sent to the administrator of the platform,
  who will register the user.

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Administrators Page

• For security reasons the administrator of the
  platform is managing all the available content.
  From the main page, the administrator can perform
  the following actions
• Pending registration accounts The administrator
  is able to view all the pending registration
  accounts and to activate these accounts.
• Users management The administrator will be able
  to edit users and experts accounts after their
  request. He will also be able to deactivate their
  accounts. (under development)
• Content management The administrator will be
  able to delete pictures and text
  (questions/comments/answers) with inappropriate
  or irrelevant content. (under development)

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Users Login Page

• The user provides his username and his 4 digit
  password, in order to enter the platform

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Users main page

• After login, the user has the following options
• To add a new question
• To watch his questions progress
• To participate to the AgroTeleDiagnosis Forum

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Adding a new question (1)

• The user has the following options
• To choose a general category, related to his
  question.
• To choose (if his question is not a general one)
  a subcategory and its relevant special category.
• To write the title of the question (required)
• To write the text of the question (required)
• Uploading a picture (optional) supported
  formats GIFF, JPEG

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Adding a new question (2)
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Questions Progress Page

• In this page, the user has the following options
  ( if he has submitted any questions)
• Edit his questions
• Delete a question from his profile
• View an answer ( if there is any) to his
  question by clicking the yellow button on the
  left.

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Editing a question

• The user is able to
• change his questions title and text.
• upload a new picture for this question.

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Deleting a question

• The user is able to delete a question from his
  profile, if he thinks that his question has been
  answered and he doesnt want to view it in the
  Questions progress area.
• The deleted question will still remain in the
  AgroTeleDiagnosis Forum, in order to be viewed by
  other users.

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Viewing an answer(1)

• If there is an answer for a question, the user
  will notice a yellow image on the left column. He
  can view the corresponding answer by clicking
  that image.

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Viewing an answer(2)

• The user can view the experts answer and (if
  appropriate) submit a comment on that answer.
• View the comments, related to his question.
• Comments can also be submitted from other
  users/experts through the AgroTeleDiagnosis
  Forum.

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Adding a comment

• The user has the option of submitting a comment
  to an experts answer.
• The comment field is required.
• The picture uploading is optional - supported
  formats GIFF, JPEG

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Experts Login Page

• The expert provides his username and his 4
  digit password, in order to enter the platform

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Experts main page

• After login, the expert has the following
  options
• To answer the users questions
• To view his answers progress
• To participate to the AgroTeleDiagnosis Forum
• To create/edit e-Seminars

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Answering users questions (1)

• At the registration process, the expert can
  choose between two main categories, according to
  his expertise, and then answer any question that
  corresponds to that main category.

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Answering users questions(2)

• The expert can choose a subcategory through a
  drop down menu, in order to view any users
  questions that have not been answered yet.

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Giving an answer (1)

• The expert can view the question and its picture
  (if there is one) and then provide an answer.
• The answer field is required, but the picture
  field is optional.

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Answers Progress Page

• The expert has the following options
• Edit his answers
• Delete an answer from his profile.
• View comments to his answers ( if there are any)
  by clicking the yellow button on the left.

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e-Seminars submission (1)

• The expert is able to upload e-Seminars as well
  as to edit them.

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e-Seminars submission (2)

• The expert must choose a subcategory and a
  special category (if there is one) where his
  e-seminar is going to be listed.
• The title and description fields are required.
• The uploading of an e-seminar file is required.
  Accepted types are .pps, .ppt, .pdf, .doc, .wmv

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Editing e-Seminars

• The expert is able to edit and delete any
  e-seminars he has uploaded.
• He can edit the title and the description of the
  e-seminar and also replace the e-seminar file by
  uploading a new one.

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AgroTeleDiagnosis Forum(1)

• Experts and users can both participate in the
  Forum. First they must choose one of the main
  categories to see the existing questions.
• In the next page, they can see all the existing
  questions of the chosen category, in which
  subcategory they belong to, and when was the last
  submission date.

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AgroTeleDiagnosis Forum(2)

• After choosing a subcategory, they can view
  details about the questions which belong to this
  subcategory.
• They can see who is the user who submitted this
  question, the questions title, the questions
  picture, if this question has been answered and
  if there are any comments about it.
• By clicking on the questions title they can
  proceed in the next page.

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eSeminars User benefits

• The benefits of the seminars to the users of the
  Agrotelediagnosis platform are noumerous, and
  some of them can be summarized in the following
• active participation to the seminars through
  two-way communication system
• learning-opportunities orientation
• production increase opportunities
• decrease of production expenses
• enhance farmers capabilities for autonomous
  innovation
• attend the seminars regardless their location
• better food security
• various ways for the provision and adaptation of
  new technologies
• no attendance fees, since the seminars will be
  provided free through the Rural Wings platform
• The eSeminars are addressed to everybody

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e-Seminars downloading (1)

• Experts and users can both view the e-seminars,
  by choosing one of the main categories, in order
  to see the existing e-seminars.
• Additional information regarding the uploaded
  e-seminars can be viewed on the following page.
  (Subcategories, number of e-Seminars and
  submission dates)

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e-Seminars downloading (2)

• After a subcategory has been chosen, details
  about the e-seminars can be viewed.
• Provided information the name of the expert that
  submitted the e-seminar, the e-seminars title,
  the e-seminars description and the e-seminars
  submission date.
• By clicking on the e-seminars title, the user
  can either open or save the corresponding
  file to his PC/PDA.

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