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IA2 Technical Proposal - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Researching GBR's health for an article
    - - Journalist
      - Possibly 30+
    - - Researcher for the news
      - Familiar with database searchers
    - - Job in researching for independent news media website
  - - - Understands marine terminology
      - Familiar with research using data-driven apps
    - - Oversees long-term sustainability program for GBR (Reef 2050 Plan)
      - Requires support for his research and decision making using the database
    - - 45+ years old
      - Been in the science field for 18+ years
    - - Marine biologist of 15 years
      - Working at the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment for 3 years
  - - - Recently graduated from UQ
      - First job (most likely 27 or so)
    - - Qualified for admin position
      - Knowledge in marine science terminology and info
    - - Appointed as new application's admin
    - - Bachelor of Science
      - Major in Marine Science
  - - - Assume average level of interaction with technology due to school requirements
    - - Year 12 private school student
      - Aiming for a Bachelor of Science (Environmental Science) at QUT
    - - Geography assignment requires research for threatened species with the GBR
    - - Tertiary education
- - - - Utility
      - Learnability and effectiveness
      - Safety
      - Accessibility
    - - Admin Login
      - Home/Search
    - - Repetition
      - Contrast
      - Alignment
      - Proximity
  - - - Diverse arrangements and alignment of categories lead to need for common conventions for understandability
      - Limited accessibility options for those with disabilities or language barriers
      - Relevant information unnecessarily over-categorised
      - Sort through convoluted and poorly proximitized information for important data
      - Unrecognisable icons with features that require more learnability than available
    - - Hierarchy methodically laid out using colour and variations in placement, proximity, and size of data
      - Filters and tabs appropriately designed to group like with like
      - Simple login requiring little information
      - Common icons that are widely understood with simple one word explanations where needed
      - Accessible to a wide range of users, specifically those with visual disabilities or language barriers
      - Error prevention in forward and back options through tabs
      - Consistent placement of nav bar and its contents for ease of access and learnability
  - - - Search input
      - Username
      - Password
      - Window navigation
      - Updated .csv upload
    - - Biodiversity Database
        
        Species
        
        Birds
        
        Fish
        
        Frogs
        
        Mammals
        
        Reptiles
        
        Invertebrate
        
        Threat Level
        
        Not Listed
        
        Not Threatened
        
        Near Threatened
        
        Vulnerable
        
        Extinct
        
        Endangered
        
        Reductions
        
        Updated assessments
        
        Reclassifications
        
        To lower threat categories
        
        To higher threat categories
        
        Local extinction
        
        Total
        
        Additions
        
        New additions to list
        
        Reclassifications
        
        Rediscoveries of extinct species
        
        From lower threat categories
        
        From higher threat categories
        
        Discoveries of new species
        
        Updated assessments
        
        Total
        
        Stock Account
- - - - Target audience: professional and aspiring academics
      - Individual work
      - Task deadline
      - Presentation time limit
      - Low-fidelity prototype generation required
    - - Have copyright at the bottom of every window
      - Import Biodiversity.xls
      - Have algorithms accurately present results of user input to provide learnability
      - Have font size and alignment used for establishing hierarchy
      - Use error prevention (inc. forward and back navigation through site)
      - Have high contrast in colour choice for visual accessibility
      - Have a conventional colour scheme from the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) website to maintain familiarity and a safe UI environment for those unused to technology
      - Have clear presentation of biodiversity datasets using placement, scale, and alignment
      - Have a consistent nav bar using icons to emphasise a feature’s purpose, giving a clear navigation system that aids in learnability
    - - Programmed in Python (with Tkinter) and SQL
      - Computer operations necessary
      - Programs used limited to Coggle.it, Microsoft Word, Diagrams.net, and Balsamiq Wireframes 4
      - Internet required
  - - - • Websites are cheaper therefore budget concerns may be an issue for creating such an app that can impact tax-payer money and consequently public opinion of the app
      - • Free login with unlimited access allows for accessibility to those with appropriate technological freedom
      - • Automation of data documentation and data search requires less human intervention and consequently less jobs
      - • Increased biodiversity awareness in contrasting species’ threat levels throughout data to then discern appropriate points of concern for biodiversity-oriented jobs and studying students
    - - • Information such as usernames and passwords will be stored, creating minimal concern over safety in the protection of personal data due to The Australian Privacy Act 1988 if passwords were to be leaked
      - • Students studying geography, biology, chemistry, and environmental science benefit from easier access to relevant data, which relies upon a usable interface and accurate data
      - • Reliable database search for researchers and students
    - - • Notwithstanding user password protection, notable lack of security and authentication to access data which could lead to data misuse and tampering
      - • Effects on those visually impaired, who speak different languages, or those unfamiliar with technology dependent on accessibility features for application
      - • Application required to be accessible using a computer through Python and SQL programming languages
      - • Colour scheme must remain recognisable as similar to the government site’s colour scheme for conventionality of design which will increase awareness of the projects and statistics
      - • Copyright for official GBRMPA website declaring the app intellectual property of the government and thus majority funding is a government responsibility