Welcome to the SIMS Corpus project web site!

The SIMS Corpus project is the final project research of Mukesh Darke, Krista Gettle, and Diana Stepner. We are Masters candidates at the School of Information Management and Systems at UC Berkeley.

This web site serves two purposes. It highlights our deliverables for IS213 - User Interface Design & Development as well as the additional research and milestones required for completion of our SIMS Final Masters Project.

Project Summary

The current SIMS web site is accessed by multiple user communities - students, employers, faculty, administrators, prospective students, and general browsers. Instead of addressing each audience individually, its layout and structure only support two broad user groups - internal (users attending SIMS) and external (users not attending SIMS). While the site contains a wealth of information, much of the power is lost because individuals cannot select or customize the contents to meet their needs. In the absence of these capabilities, people create their own methods for tracking relevant academic information, such as course web site locations and graduation requirements, outside the SIMS structure. This makes it difficult to establish a dialog between those who utilize SIMS' academic resources and those who provide them. We see utilizing a different interface model as a starting point for addressing these issues.