Midterm presentationMaster Thesis

Oana Şipoş@oanasipos // oanasthesis.wordpress.com

3rd May, 2013Supervisor: Prof. Erik Duval

2

GoalsResearch & ImplementationDocumentationDemoDeadlines & RequirementsStatistics

Agenda

3

Goals

Thesis•Aggregate the main MOOC players•Implement faceted search

Programming

•Learn Ruby and Ruby on Rails

Personal

•New university•New culture•New country

4

MOOC players

5

No APIs!

We scrap! [Capybara gem in Rails]

6

MOOC Players to Use

7

Research of existing solutions

7 subjects23 – 33 years old

8

Paper Prototype 1

Option 1 Option 2 Option 3

9

Paper Prototype 1

9 subjects23 – 33 years old

Very little space for resultsOrder of the filters

Professor & universitySimply search

10

Paper Prototype 2

6 subjects23 – 33 years oldSUS score: 88.3

11

Advanced Filters

What to be the first step of a new search?

Should the category be a

filter or not?

No, they should not.

12

DocumentationState of the Art

Theoretical Fundamentals

Implementation

Experimental Results

Conclusions

75%

13

DEMO

14

Deadlines & Requirements

• 29/04 – 5/05• Finish scraping websites• Digital prototype

• 6/05 – 19/05• Implementation of faceted search • Front-end 1.0

• 20/05 – 26/05• Evaluation of faceted search & front-end

• 27/05 – 2/06• Final tests & writing

• 3/06 – 7/06• Final presentation @ KUL

15

Activities

Writing & Reflection

Design

Implementation

Research & Learning Ruby & Rails

Deciding the Topic

16

Challenges & Lessons learned

• Done is better than perfect!• Don’t be afraid to ask• Best practices don’t care about

programming languages• Ask a coworker from the

‘industry’

17

Questions?Comments?Suggestion

s?

Thank you! Dank u! ¡Gracias!