Alex Hinton

Date of Award

2022

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Natural Sciences

First Advisor

Lepinski, Matthew

Area of Concentration

Computer Science

Abstract

With the rise of social media, it has become more and more difficult for an individual to track down a comprehensive amount of information on a single topic, forcing them to search out multiple sources in order to stay up to date. A dashboard can be a useful tool in automatically collecting and displaying data for an individual to access and interpret, but only if the dashboard is laid out in a way that can be quickly and effectively understood. In order to develop a framework for an effective dashboard layout, a social media aggregator dashboard focused on the popular K-Pop group BTS was developed. The overall design focused on prioritising accessibility, usability, data trustworthiness, and the aesthetics of the dashboard. To test the efficacy of the created dashboard, a usability study with 8 participants was conducted among fans of the dashboard’s topic. The study showed that a single page layout, with data displayed in order of relevance, and with social media feeds designed to remind users visually of the source of the data, was effective in helping users understand how to intuitively navigate the website and where the data displayed was sourced from, but that buttons and text descriptions were less effective in assisting users with locating information on the dashboard.

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