Conceptual Model of Alabama Law Enforcement Traffic Crash Report System

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Conceptual Model of Alabama Law
EnforcementTraffic Crash Report System

• By Wanda Eugene
• Kinnis Gosha
• Andrea Williams

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System Description

• When an accident occurs in Alabama, law
  enforcement officers record accident information
  onto a crash report form. This crash report
  system is designed for Alabama law enforcement
  officers to enter crash information recorded from
  that crash report form into a database containing
  all other crash report information for the state
  of Alabama with ease and accuracy.

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System Specifications

• Software
• System must mimic actual report form in order to
  maintain user comfort ability and familiarity.
• System must be user friendly (novice users)
• System must be secure and only accessible by
  Alabama law enforcement officers.
• Hardware
• System must be compatible with existing PCs at
  the station
• System must also be able to be run from a tablet
  PC with same accuracy and ease.

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Task Scenario/Prototype
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Actual Report Form
Task 1 Officer Seals arrives at the scene of an
accident. As is custom, Officer Seals takes out
her crash report form and starts recording the
crash information on the form. To the left you
can see the report form.
Task 2 Officer Seals must now go back to the
station and record this information from the
report form into the traffic crash report system.
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Welcome message
Task 3 Officer Seals is back at the station and
is greeted by this Welcome Page from the Alabama
Highway Traffic Citation Entry System. Officer
Seals enters her login information and is guided
to the next page where she can then begin her
accident reporting.
Officer Login
Question Section Here users can send comments or
questions to designers about the system
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Task 4 Officer Seals is given the option of
recording a citation, completing an unfinished
citation, etc. Today Officer Seals only wants to
record her new accident report so she clicks add
a new citation. She is then guided to the next
page where she can begin reporting her new
citations.
Officer is given options on which step to take
next Add new citation, complete unfinished
citation, add comments to existing citation, etc.
Officer can search database by different
categories to find existing records or even
compare notes.
Log off option
Officers can read Tip of the Day, which gives
them tips about the system.
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Tab showing driver/vehicle information, also
gives review option
Task 5 Officer Seals is now at the Location page
where she enters the time and location of the
accident. Since the system mimics the actual
report form, Officer Seals enters the information
quickly and with ease.
Drop down boxes save officer time of entering
information into each box.
Officer is given the option to save the report as
a draft, reset the form or go to the next page.
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Task 6 Officer Seals begins entering the first
drivers information, when she gets a call about
another accident. She must now save this report
because she cannot finish it. She goes to save
draft and is guided to another page confirming
her decision.
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Task 7 Before seeing a confirmation page, Officer
Seals sees a warning page prompting her to make
another decision, whether to submit the report
(yes, finish), go back to the report (no, go
back), or to continue saving the report as a
draft. Officer Seals continues saving it as a
draft.
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Task 8 Officer Seals then receives an
affirmative feedback message saying her task has
completed and she can either return to the
homepage or logoff. She logs off and goes to
another accident scene to start the process all
over again.
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Additional Notes

• The prototype shown in the task scenario does not
  include all the functionality and capabilities of
  the system. To see the actual prototype, go to
• http//www.goshanet.com/csci/classes/userinterface
  /index.html