thesis midterm presentation
DESCRIPTION
The presentation has the purpose to update the HCI department about my progress on my thesis. It was focused on the speech, not necessarily writing all the information on the slides.TRANSCRIPT
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Midterm presentationMaster Thesis
Oana Şipoş@oanasipos // oanasthesis.wordpress.com
3rd May, 2013Supervisor: Prof. Erik Duval
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GoalsResearch & ImplementationDocumentationDemoDeadlines & RequirementsStatistics
Agenda
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Goals
Thesis•Aggregate the main MOOC players•Implement faceted search
Programming
•Learn Ruby and Ruby on Rails
Personal
•New university•New culture•New country
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MOOC players
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No APIs!
We scrap! [Capybara gem in Rails]
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MOOC Players to Use
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Research of existing solutions
7 subjects23 – 33 years old
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Paper Prototype 1
Option 1 Option 2 Option 3
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Paper Prototype 1
9 subjects23 – 33 years old
Very little space for resultsOrder of the filters
Professor & universitySimply search
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Paper Prototype 2
6 subjects23 – 33 years oldSUS score: 88.3
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Advanced Filters
What to be the first step of a new search?
Should the category be a
filter or not?
No, they should not.
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DocumentationState of the Art
Theoretical Fundamentals
Implementation
Experimental Results
Conclusions
75%
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DEMO
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Deadlines & Requirements
• 29/04 – 5/05• Finish scraping websites• Digital prototype
• 6/05 – 19/05• Implementation of faceted search • Front-end 1.0
• 20/05 – 26/05• Evaluation of faceted search & front-end
• 27/05 – 2/06• Final tests & writing
• 3/06 – 7/06• Final presentation @ KUL
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Activities
Writing & Reflection
Design
Implementation
Research & Learning Ruby & Rails
Deciding the Topic
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Challenges & Lessons learned
• Done is better than perfect!• Don’t be afraid to ask• Best practices don’t care about
programming languages• Ask a coworker from the
‘industry’
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Questions?Comments?Suggestion
s?
Thank you! Dank u! ¡Gracias!