Week 6 .... and we have the UI mock-up!

The main highlights of week 6 are:

1. Summary report of the professor interview
2. Reaching out for more professors
3. Analysis of requirements constraints (functional and non-functional)
4. Preparation of UI mock-up
5. Including graphics and media into the application and SVN set up

This week the team was mainly focused on summarizing the findings of the survey of the teachers and professors. All in all we had six responses which are as follows:

Maths - 2
Computer Science - 2
Physics - 1
Biology - 1

Most of the teachers/professors interviewed have had some kind of teaching experience with students having visual disabilities and said that they did not mind to putting in extra effort to help out those students. Also they seemed genuinely interested in the concept of our project.  Though this might not be a large statistical number to draw inferences upon but has certainly helped us in gaining insight to some of the issues. We are looking forward to interviewing few more of the professor next week.

We also came up with the initial  draft of the functional and non-functional requirement for the system; though we will be making refinements along the way as we progress.  We had a brainstorming session about how the user interface of the application would look like and were able to design an initial mock-up of the UI. This is indeed an important milestone for the project! We have tried to make the UI as simple as possible. We have considered both the horizontal and vertical orientation but for the first phase we will be mainly focusing on the landscape view. But we definitely would like to have the end-user's perspective regarding it before finalizing which of the orientation to support or even both!

The team played around with embedding some of the graphics elements into the application and was even able to make the cat "meow" whenever it was poked at! This will surely be another crucial aspect for our application as it will play all the important role in making it accessible. We had been discussing SVN for quite some time now and finally this week the team was able to get the SVN running through the XCode. This has come up at just about an ideal time since we are all beginning to head towards working on the main application with all the knowledge that we have been gathering from previous weeks!

Next week we all will be actually putting into work the design of the initial UI that we have prepared this week!