Find a Place to Study
Description
"Find a Place to Study" tab focus on one building that is selected by the user. There is a histogram which displays the number of WAP users that were recorded in that building every hour on that day. The selected time is highlighted on the histogram with a vertical line and a slightly darker bar. To scale the histogram, there is also a horizontal line indicating maximum recorded capacity. Below the histogram, the recommendation is provided. The evaluation compares WAP users in the selected building to those of the rest of campus at that time. Based on the normalized data, the algorithm determines whether or not this is a good place to study, or if the information is insufficient.
Functionality
Interface Overview
- When opening the website, the Map tab appears first. However, if user wants to go to "Find a Place to Study" tab directly, hamburger (red circle) can be used to navigate to "Find a Place to Study".
- There is a short tutorial (red rectangle) to teach users how to use "Find a Place to Study" tab, and user can hide the tutorial anytime by clicking "-" in the upper right corner.
- A selection panel (blue rectangle) is used to let users customize their inputs selection so that they can see different result histogram and recommendation according to their needs.
Input Selection
Users customize their inputs using the following 3 selections:
- Choose a date: Select a date that you want to see the information on.
- Choose a time: Select a time that you want to see the information at.
- User can also click "NOW!" to update date and time to latest automatically
- Choose a Building: Select a specific building to see information of that building.
- User may jump to "Find a Place to Study" from "Map", then the date, time, and building will be selected automatically.
After selecting all inputs, user need to click "Update Graphs" to update the map unless user clicks "NOW!" to update date and time to latest or jump here from map.