Unsere Aufgabe bestand darin, die Homepage der Hochschule zu evaluieren. Das klingt im ersten Moment ziemlich unspektakulär und stellt nicht unbedingt das typische Thema für ein Projekt in der Informatik dar. Doch bereits nach kurzer Zeit entpuppte sich diese Aufgabe als spannende Herausforderung und auch der Bezug zur Informatik wurde schnell klar. Nach acht Wochen voller Befragungen, Interviews und Usability Tests konnten wir als Team einen Prototypen ausarbeiten, welcher auch schon von Studenten mit positivem Feedback benutzt wurde.
Abschließend sind wir mit unseren Ergebnissen mehr als zufrieden und sind auch der Meinung, dass diese zukünftig für die Verbesserung der Homepage von Nutzen sein werden.
Our task was to evaluate the University's homepage. At first this sounds quite unspectacular and does not look like a typical topic for a project in computer science. But after a short time, this task turned out as an exciting challenge and the relation to computer science soon became clear. After eight weeks of surveys, interviews and usability tests we were able to develop a prototype as a team, which was used by students with positive feedback. Finally, we are more than pleased with our results and we also have the opinion that this will be the future for improving the website sucessfully.
At the beginning we have dealt with the target groups and have put our focus on the three target groups prospective students, students and employees of the university. After a long time of brainstorming first hypotheses were stated. To support those statements we performed interviews with volunteers from the different target groups. To achieve this, the team split into three groups.
The results of the individual interviews were summarized in three groups. Then all groups were summarized in a single summary. To get a structured overview of the navigation, sitemaps of the current website were created, which show all the levels of the website. Every single item from the sitemaps were written on index cards and transferred to a large wall to flexibly pull the points back and forth.
Based on the interview results the sitemaps were newly restructured in order to obatin a clearer navigation.The newly strucured sitemaps were then virtually implemented to recieve comparisons between before and after.The new sitemaps were used as a template for a prototype, which were converted with Photoshop and were made functional via PowerPoint. During project work, the focus increased on the target groups prospective students and students, while employees lost their focus. In the final step, the students were divided into the respective departments of computer science, economics and tourism. For each department and for the target group prospective students four subjects were invited, which performed usability tests. These tests were created in the braintstorming and are structured as follows.
The results were analyzed and showed as diagrams, so that we can obtain a direct comparison of the current website and our prototype.