Activity 1
After the discussion
with the tutor about the specification of the project, we had made few changes
to the project proposal. A car review website WILL NOT be based on YolaWebsite
but hosted on a other free web hosting that supports blog entries only. The
design and style of the website will be customized by CSS, and same to the
layout that will be managed by CSS. Log-in and password form for log-in
authentication will not be used because of its complications.
A Hybrid Organizational Scheme will be used for this car review website. Hybrid Organizational Scheme creates groups of similar things together such as phone-book, appointment book and shopping mall diagram with store locations. The tutor and I agreed to use Hybrid Organizational Scheme because we believed it is easy for visitors of the website to identify what they are looking for.
Project is estimated to
be done in 4-5 weeks time and to be hand-in both report and website in week 9.
Further changes can be occurred during week 5 through 9, and an approval is
needed from tutor to make these changes.
Activity 2
Scenario 1 – Buying groceries and talking with the checkout operator
It is extremely difficult when people with vision impairment to choose groceries, and also to get the right money to pay the checkout operator. Some recommended vision improvements that may help are to provide supporter person for those vision disabilities or else in case of paying the checkout operator, a checkout counter can have a scanner where it can scan money notes or coins that are placed onto by the buyers, and to be read out aloud by the machine to alert the vision impairment people.
Scenario 2 – Ordering food at a restaurant from a menu, talking with a waiter and eating a meal
Ordering food from the menu is impossible for vision impairment people. In this case, a menu with voice when pressing at particular spot, and this would solve the problem in a way. Talking with a waiter is not a problem because people with vision impairments had ability to recognizing important features of the sound of someone talking and eating a meal is not a problem for vision impairments.
Scenario 3 – Meeting someone new at a party, sports club, BBQ
Again, recognizing important features is easy for people with vision impairment, and so meeting someone new at a party might not be a problem but it came to difficult when ones had to remember others voices instead of faces for normal people.
Activity 3
a).
Qualitative Data:
· Website has black or grey coloured background
· Menu and Navigation Bar are section on the left hand side
· Fast loading home page
· Sport cars, Super cars, and other types of cars
· Stylish web design
· Simple blog entries
· Modern Look
· Not too many texts
· Not too complicated looking
· Graphical picture files
· Visitors are Petrol heads
· Strong knowledge of cars
Quantitative Data
·
958,622 visitors in 2009
· 500GB bandwidth
· 2GB web space
· Daily maintainance time at 12.00am
· 83% of visitors follows the site
· 17% of visitors are no petrol heads
· 69% of visitors are petrol heads
· There are at least 20 car reviews on the website
· 18 comments left by visitors
· Webhosting cost $25 per month
b). From Qualitative data, " Sport cars, Super cars, and other types of cars", can be added to Quantitative data by stating, "There are 35 Sport cars, 43 Super cars, and 164 of other types of cars". Also, the number of visitors can be simulated by creating a graph:
c). a.
d). a. There are few critical incidents in qualitative data, There are too many texts on the review page of the website, the navigation menu should be on the left hand side not right hand side, and the some graphical pictures are not necessary.
Too many texts on the review page of the website should be consider the most critical incident because most of the visitors, although they are petrol heads but they prefer to go into conclusion on how well is the car? How fast is it? How good is it? and so on.
Activity 4
- Petrol heads, and car enthusiasts.
- Age between 16 and 40
- Knowledge of Technology - Beginner to Intermediate
- General Education Level - High School or higher
