CLEW Technical Reports

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CLEW Technical Reports

• Initial Findings and Prototype

ICS 414/699 Spring 2004 Bruce Harris
(bharris_at_hawaii.edu) and John Bouchard
(jbouchar_at_hawaii.edu)
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Investigative Process

• Evaluation of existing Technical Reports
  Interface.
• Interviewed faculty and students to get feedback
  on what they would like to see.
• Created paper mock-ups based on intuition and
  user feedback.
• Obtained feedback on mock-ups from faculty and
  students- kept most of initial design.

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Our findings

• Existing System Evaluation
• The technical reports layout felt cluttered.
• Login took too many steps.
• Potentially too many reports on first page.
• New Features requested
• Ability to use links when posting a new tech
  report
• Category based search and submission
• Entry page only lists most recent tech reports
  initially

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User Stories

• View listing of existing reports
• Submitting report with option to use link.
• Sorting reports
• By date published
• By author or group
• By title
• Searching for reports by keywords

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User Stories (cont.)

• Ability to input/reference multiple authors
  individually
• Storage (persistence) of reports
• Limit reports displayed per page (like google!)
• Allow direct login. (more of a system wide
  feature)