Thesis Table of Contents

1. Introduction

    1.1 Context

    1.2 Goals

    1.3 Overview

2. Literature Study

    2.1 Mobile learning
    2.2 eLearning

    2.3 Mobile applications of other universities

    2.4 Conclusion

3. Analysis
    3.1 Current mobile experience of Toledo

    3.2 First ideas

    3.3 Survey

    3.4 Web VS Native

    3.5 Android platform

    3.6 Conclusion

4. Design

    4.1 Paper prototype

    4.2 Evaluation

    4.3 Digital Prototype

    4.4 Evaluation

    4.5 Conclusion

5. Implementation

    5.1 General architecture

    5.2 Data sources

    5.3 Android integration

    5.4 Final application

    5.5 Evaluation

    5.6 Conclusion

6. Conclusion

    6.1 Summary

    6.2 Reflection

    6.3 Further work

    6.4 Concluding remarks

Thesis poster

You can find my thesis poster here.

Somehow google messed up the big size, but the original file is of a better quality.

Poster draft

I have been struggling with the software to create a poster, so here is an early draft:

New Thesis Planning to August

Week 01 (30/04 - 06/05) Android Integration
Week 02 (07/05 - 13/05) Android Integration
Week 03 (14/05 - 20/05) Finish Chapter 3 - Analysis
Week 04 (21/05 - 27/05) Complete Toledo Data Access
Week 05 (28/05 - 03/06) User tests + Evaluation
Week 06 (04/06 - 10/06) Research for Chapter 2 - Literature Study
Week 07 (11/06 - 17/06) Finish Chapter 2 - Literature Study
Week 08 (18/06 - 24/06) Chapter 1 - Introduction
Week 09 (25/06 - 01/07) Buffer
Week 10 (02/07 - 08/07) Rework Scientific Article
Week 11 (09/07 - 15/07) Chapter 4 - Design
Week 12 (16/07 - 22/07) Chapter 5 - Implementation
Week 13 (23/07 - 29/07) Chapter 6 - Conclusion
Week 14 (30/07 - 05/08) Buffer
Week 15 (06/08 - 12/08) Buffer

Planning updated a bit for 2 reasons:

- A lot more work than planned to get the calendar integration working. Apparently there is no general way to do this on Android version before 4.0.
- Hopefully by then I can integrate the schedule and use real data of test persons.

Second thesis presentation

apparently never uploaded my second thesis presentation, so here it is! https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HZmun0-_HpaStGd8jFE7kChR7X4SEJLl8FXo0XRiayE/edit

New Planning

A new planning for my thesis:

I'll generally try to work in weeks of thursday to thursday :

Week -6
Tue 27/03 to Sun 01/04 : Presentation + Thesis Chapter 2 - Literature Study
Tue 27/03 to Thu 05/04 : User tests + Evaluation
Sun 01/04 to Thu 19/04 : Google (Android) Integration
Sun 01/04 to Thu 26/04 : Complete Toledo Data Access
Week -5
Thu 05/04 to Thu 12/04 : Thesis Chapter 1 - Introduction
Week -4
Thu 12/04 to Thu 19/04 : Thesis Chapter 3 - Analysis
Week -3
Thu 19/04 to Thu 26/04 : Poster + Final user tests and evaluation
Week -2
Thu 26/04 to Thu 03/05 : Thesis Chapter 4 - Design
Week -1
Thu 03/05 to Thu 10/05 : Thesis Chapter 5 - Implementation
Week 0
Thu 10/05 to Thu 17/05 : Thesis Chapter 6 - Conclusion


I know that this looks optimistic, but I rather aim for the June deadline and miss it only to be well on the way for the August deadline, than aim for the August deadline and miss that one.

Scientific Paper Draft

The draft of my scientific paper can be found here!