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Assignment 1

• Problem Statement
• Project Members

Assignment 2

• Personas
• Task Analysis
• Appendices
• Work Distribution

Assignment 3

• Scenarios
• Comparative Analyses
• Initial Design 1
• Initial Design 2
• Initial Design 3
• Work Distribution

Assignment 4

• Introduction
• Low-Fi Prototype
• Methods
• Test Measures
• Results
• Discussion
• Appendices
• Work Distribution

Assignment 5

• Design Revisions
• Revised Scenarios
• 1st Hi-Fi Prototype
• Storyboards
• Instructions for Use
• Slide Presentation
• Work Distribution

Assignment 6

• Heuristic Evaluation
• Work Distribution

Assignment 7

• 2nd Hi-Fi Prototype
• Responses to HEs
• Work Distribution
• Instructions for Use

Assignment 8

• Introduction
• Method
• Test Measures
• Results
• Discussion
• Appendices
• Work Distribution
• Slide Presentation

Final Write-up

• Problem Statement
• Solution Overview
• Final Personas
• Final Scenarios
• Revised Storyboards
• Final Interface Design
• Design Evolution
• Interactive Prototype
• Instructions for Use
• Work Distribution
• Slide Presentation

Initial Design 2

Figure 1 illustrates the skeleton flow of user activity beginning with the sign-in phase. The boxes represent user activity, and the double-lined boxes represent individual webpages dedicated to that activity. The myAnnotations box represents a homepage of sorts, personalized for each user to give details about all the annotation that user has participated in. The 'discuss' page is a forum for users to network with each other, as opposed to the 'modify annotation' page, which is where the actual annotation is modified. 'comment/correct' refers to the lower-impact feedback that can be given by secondary users or users with weaker confidence levels.

Figure 1: Flow Diagram

After initially signing in, the user has a few main categories of options. She may want an overview of the annotations she is personally involved in maintaining, she may be researching a particular gene, she may be working with a set of genes within IMG's Gene Cart, or she may be looking for genes that match a certain function or organism. These are shown from left to right, at the top of Figure 1, with the leftmost option being the one most invested in a particular gene annotation and the rightmost option being the least invested. Thus, the leftmost option has the greatest power to modify a particular annotation (this includes the act of creating the annotation), and will also be privy to the discussion forum. A viewer of the Gene Details page will have similar abilities, but will also have the option of contacting the individual curator of a particular gene (should one exist). Other users, who locate the gene indirectly through a Gene Cart or organism or function search will easily be able to comment or correct an annotation, but will need to express an additional interest in a particular gene - presumably, by navigating to the Gene Details page - in order to be given annotation or discussion privileges.

Figure 2: myAnnotations Page

Figure 3 and Figure 4 illustrate the annotation modification page and the discussion page. Note that, as per the flowchart, any changes submitted to either of these pages is automatically submitted to a mailing list of registered, interested users as well as posted to a history section on both pages. This is to accomodate users who prefer both 'push' and 'pull' updates about the gene, since users who prefer to have the updates 'pushed' to them via email can always ignore the discussion pages, and users who prefer 'pulling' updates from a website have the option not to subscribe to the mailing list.

Figure 3: 'Modify Annotation' Page

Figure 4: 'Discuss' Page