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Year 11 FIA2 Environmental Preservation Technical Proposal App
User Requirements
User 2: Lydia & Isabelle
Busy single mother (Lydia).
Interested in how eco-friendly behaviour can save money (Lydia).
Attends preparatory school.
Loves planting trees and monitoring growth.
User 3: Sam
Highschool student and plays games.
Messy and litters everywhere.
Believes environmental care is government juristiction.
User 1: Tom
Wants it discern between council bin lid colours.
Interested in learning more about the Australian ecosystems and native wildlife.
Client Requirements
App Development Restraints
Eight weeks to complete.
Must adhere to QG accessibility guidelines.
Must meet CUE.
Must be an app.
Apps of Comparable, Performance, & Era
National Geographics Kids
Games.
Books.
Videos.
Articles.
Oreco
Tracks carbon footprint.
Tracks climate impact.
Analyses daily life.
Provides actionable advice.
Assists in pollution and expense reduction.
Requirements
Layout
Fluid width approach and maximum width for all content elements, page music support small browse were windows and low resolution devices without introducing horizontal scrollbars.
Browser & Device Support
Agencies must develop and test sites to support all browsers and/or devices on the full and reduced browser support lists.
Advertising
Queensland Government websites must not offer advertising for private individuals, firms or corporations.
Fonts & Links
Verdana must be the primary font. The default font family (in order of precedence) must be Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans serif.
The colour contrast on all text and links must have a contrast ratio to the background of at least 4.5:1.
Links can only be used for hyperlinks or content.
Images
All images must have a text alternative; except for images that do not add value to the content (e.g. decorative images).
New Windows
When linking to non-HTML files, such as Excel, Word or PDF, these documents should open in standalone applications, instead of opening within the browser.
Optimisation of Webpages for Printing
Agencies must include CSS to provide stripped down print-friendly versions of web pages.
Miscellaneous
Adherence to QGAG.
Adherence to CUE.
Information about BCC lid colours.
Information about Australian ecosystems.
Information about benefits of eco-friendly behaviour.
Home screen.
Impacts and benefits for individuals.
Game - Trash sorting.
Calculator - Container refund.
Calculator - Reducing water consumption and water bills.
Developer Problems
User Interface
Usability Principles
Different applications and features within the app allow the users to learn more about the topic (environmental preservation) so that they can select an environmentally positive lifestyle rather than a negative and also learn about the benefits and disadvantages of different behaviours and lifestyles (
Effectiveness, Utility
).
Help, Settings, search, and familiar functions allow users to navigate throughout the app and find specific features efficiently and with ease. Users can also learn more operational knowledge of the app with the help/information functions (
Learnability, Utility
).
Easy to use for demographic. Buttons are recognisable and have a help function for unknowns, colourblind settings, and read aloud functions. All adjustable in settings (
Accessibility, Learnability, Effectiveness
).
Help/information button that tells the user the definition of some items like the bin lid colours or trash that cannot be recycled so the user can understand to complete games and tasks (
Learnability, Utility, Effectiveness
).
Government website thus the security is effective and will not permit any anonymous individuals from gathering users’ information, and the app does not require any personal user input (
Safety
).
Utilises relevant government standards of app creation and development, thus the app would automatically possess an approachable layout, images and helpful features and pages that should aid the user to accomplish whatever task that is required of the app (
Effectiveness, Utility
).
Government application thus should be available for every individual with access to a mobile phone or device so that they can utilise the full potential of the services provided (
Accessibility
).
Features
A recycling game that makes the user recycle organise different types of garbage into recycle, compost, or waste.
A list of definitions for the bin lids and other signs for eco-friendly.
Calculator that uses the 10c refund rule for each bottle and calculate the total amount of money the user will receive.
List of different types of environmentally positive lifestyles that could be utilised by the users and a list of benefits to accompany the lifestyle.
Function that tracks the users’ carbon footprint based on their input of what they are doing so that the app can make an estimate.
Similarly to list of eco-friendly lifestyles, there is also a list of environmentally negative lifestyles and the negative impacts that is can have on the environment.
A selection of common everyday times that the user may user/encounter and defines them whilst highlighting their properties such as recyclable or their materials.
Calculator for potential water bills and the a list of methods to reduce the consumption of water.
Help button on almost every screen that tells the user the basic orientation of everything on the current screen.
Coding Environment
Xcode on the MacBook.
Swift code in conjunction with Xcode.
Algorithms
Switch statements.
Arrays.
Determines if the user has correctly identified which bin an item should go in (+ 10 points).
Determines if the user has selected the worst bin option for an item (- 5 points).
All other incorrect answers (- 1 point).
Determines water costs, amount of water used and also tells the user the price of water per litre.
Multiplies the amount of water used (litres) by the cost of water per litre to produce the total cost of water consumption.
Divides the cost of the water bill by the price of water per litre to produce the consumption of water.
Northern Territory (NT): $1.96.
Queensland (QLD): $3.12.
New South Wales (NSW): $2.35.
Australian Capital Territory (ACT): $2.46-4.94.
Victoria (Vic): $2.63-3.35.
Southern Australia (SA): $1.95-3.01.
Western Australia (WA): $1.82-4.55.
Tasmania (Tas): $1.06.
Determines the total amount of money received from refunding an inputted amount of bottle from the user.
Uses 10c to calculate total amount.
Potential Impacts
Users
User 1 & others can familiarise themselves with the definition of bin lid colours and the use and learn more about the wildlife.
User 2 can learn more about eco-friendly behaviour and the benefits of saving money from that behaviour.
User 2 can also learn more about the ecosystem and the environment like User 1.
User 3 can understand the learn the impacts of his actions and change his mindset about the environment to become proactive rather than being ignorant.
Social
People will understand more about the ecosystem and the current state that it is in.
Audience can learn more about the eco-friendly behaviours such as recycling and proper garbage disposal.
People who participate in the friendly behaviour will learn the benefits of it and hopefully maintain the lifestyle.
People may use less items or appliance that require non-renewable resources and thus make life slower for them.
Economic
Possible reduction in plastic, metal, and glass production as increasing amounts of recyclable items are being disposed of properly and recycled.
Less non-renewable resources will be used for production and thus less income.
Environmental
Less waste is exposed to the environment and ultimately can be come clean after a very extensive time.
People abiding to the eco-friendly lifestyle will come and collectively clean the area of waste.
Less carbon emissions will be present as people use less vehicles and produce less items.