HW 1: Our approach to the project

So in class, we as a group presented to the class on how we thought we are tackling our final project. So here is a brief summary:

In the previous Capstone class, students worked to develop a virtual keyboard with the use of a gesture based text entry method.

Our goal for this project will be merging this virtual keyboard with a geotagging system to be used by researchers for further testing. We will work to produce an environment for analyzing this data and study how well testers can go about the user interface.

The software we will use for this project will be:

• PostgreSQL (database) 
• Shark2 Keyboard 
• Java Applet (which contains the working keyboard and GUI) 
• Cloud Service 
• HTML (page that holds the Java Applet and will be used for the testing environment) 

We will also create a data dictionary which is essentially our main database for this project. 

• It will contain 2 tables, one for each of the test type (sentence matching and question answering) 
• User ID and test type which will be the primary key for each table. The user ID will act as a link between tables. 

For our use cases, we will simply implement a user login account within our software. Users must create and log into an account and they will be able to use the Virtual Keyboard application. 

We would like to care more about the functionality of our keyboard and see how potential users would interact with it. One of our user case scenarios would be the user would try to type out a word using the gesture and the keyboard would guess what the word is and it will be stored into the database. It could also implement a question and answer where the software will ask the user a question and the user has to use the swipe gesture to answer. 

This is what the wireframe from the previous capstone class developed: 

 

We hope to implement this keyboard into an HTML document and make it look better.