S-Attendance App

Year: 2019

Location: The American University of Kurdistan, Duhok, Kurdistan, Iraq

Supervisor: Dr. Dara Sherwani

Course: Human-Computer Interaction

S-Attendance is a mobile application designed to be used in universities that apply the attendance policy. This app includes three important features:

1. Taking attendance of students.
2. Showing attendance reports to students.
3. Communication between instructors and students.

Conducted Activities

1-1 Interviews

User Journey

Survey

Wireframing and Prototype

Card Sorting

Usability Testing

Sketching

User Journey

After 1-1 interviews and surveys, user journey was created

People's Problems

The following are the that were faced by students and staff of the university due to the attendance policy:

  • Possible failure in the course

  • Late attendance reports

  • Students were not able to check attendance reports everyday

  • Inefficient communication

  • Many people in charge of attendance

  • Missing taking attendance for late students

Opportunities

The following are some solutions that can be implemented in the mobile app to solve the attendance issue: 

  • Anytime students can check their attendance reports

  • Live reports

  • Everything can be done online

  • Efficient communication

  • The instructor is the only one in charge

  • No excuses for being absent

  • Takes less time

  • Scan a bar code before or after the class

Map Tree

Map tree was used to create the structure of the app

Sketching

Some sketches of the app

Wireframes and Prototype

Balsamiq was used to design the wireframes and link them together