DEVELOPMENT OF A WEBGIS FOR UNIVERSITY CAMPUS USING AN APPROACH BASED ON USER-CENTRED DESIGN TECHNIQUES

Marciano Da Costa Lima,Leonardo Ercolin Filho,Luciene Stamato Delazari,Amanda Pereira Antunes

doi:10.1590/s1982-21702021000100002

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Abstract: The techniques that seek to attend the user’s needs in a product’s development, like the Requirements Engineering (RE) and the User-Centred Design (UCD) have been increasingly used in different areas. The RE is a computer science area that seeks the development of methods and techniques to software elaboration, while the UCD is an iterative design process, where designers focus on users and place them at the center of the development process. This study approached the application of these techniques to developing a WebGIS oriented to university applications. In this research an interface to the WebGIS was proposed, with an application to assist the navigation in indoor and outdoor environments. The study case was applied in Polytechnic Center campus of Federal University of Paraná (UFPR). The interface was evaluated through tests with users, using tasks that allowed to explore its functionality. The methodology used was elaborated by Brooke (1996) to measure the usability through the System Usability Scale (SUS), and the classification of this scale adopted by Bangor, Kortum and Miller (2009) and Sauro (2011). The results show punctuation indices based on the SUS, what indicated that the use of UCD techniques allow to improve the interface development in a WebGIS.

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Among the existing technologies to manipulate geospatial data, the use of Web Geographic Information Systems (WebGIS) have been popularized, thanks to the facility of its usage (Jacob et al 2009; Huang and Gartner 2010; Schrader-Patton, Ager and Bunzel 2010; Yan and Guo 2012; Dalton 2013; Zlatanova et al 2013; TorresSospedra 2015; Chilela 2016; Blachowski, Łuczak and Zagrodnik 2018; Silva and Sá 2019)
In the first step of development, was realized the survey of the information referred to the users and others involved in the system, through meetings with the brainstorming method
With the results discussed in the meetings, was defined that the target-users of the developed system are any visitor of the Polytechnic Center campus interested in obtaining route information, as well as its structure’s location, besides of users that wish to download cartographic data referent to the campus

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Among the existing technologies to manipulate geospatial data, the use of Web Geographic Information Systems (WebGIS) have been popularized, thanks to the facility of its usage (Jacob et al 2009; Huang and Gartner 2010; Schrader-Patton, Ager and Bunzel 2010; Yan and Guo 2012; Dalton 2013; Zlatanova et al 2013; TorresSospedra 2015; Chilela 2016; Blachowski, Łuczak and Zagrodnik 2018; Silva and Sá 2019). A WebGIS will be considered as web application that allows the integration of functions in an interactive map (Sluter 2001)

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