GR6 - User Testing
Design
Implementation
Back-End
The back end of the web site was built using Node.js and Express. In addition, Socket.io was used to build the event driven portion of the app, mainly the Question Queue. The database used was Postgresql, interfacing via the 'pg' module.
Front-End
The front end of the web site was built using HTML, CSS, and Javascript at its core. However, many frameworks were involved. For one, the javascript was served using Embedded Javascript (EJS), which is a templating system. In addition, Jquery Mobile was heavily used, which provided us nice ajax animations and mobile widgets. The decision was made because we figured the biggest use case was on a mobile phone. Other frameworks include Swipe.js for the Stats page, and jquery-rate-it for the stars on the feedback page.
Evaluation
To evaluate our implementation of the ConnecTour UI, we crashed a tour being conducted on Monday and asked three tourists to test our interface. The three users we found to conduct this round of user testing were tourists, although they were unfortunately not all prospective college students. Early on in this project, we determined that our target user population would be what we called "story tourists": prospective students who were interested in hearing specific and detailed stories from college students about what the college was like.
Our user test was conducted on the user's mobile device on some modern browser (e.g. Chrome, Safari, etc.). The users were given the briefing below and wer