WG3 – User-oriented design strategies
for a competitive solution
Description
WG3 aimed at creating design strategies fostering the user-orientation of an online language learning solution and ensuring its capacity to attract and retain a crowd. For example, this WG would study the relevance and attractiveness of learner profiling for vocabulary training and devise related design strategies. The objective would be approached by reviewing existing solutions and users’ expectations.
Leader: Branislav Bédi (mail)
Vice-Leader: Frieda Steurs (mail)
Work plan & deliverables
Task 3.1: Overview of existing state-of-the-art online language learning solutions (Month 1-12)
Reviewing existing solutions, their functionalities, interfaces, and usability
D.3.1 – Summary report on existing state-of-the-art solutions [link]
Task 3.2: Studies on functionalities, interface design, and usability (Month 6-24)
Development and adaptation of approaches; description of a theoretical framework;
D.3.2 – Theoretical framework of design strategies for functionalities, interface and usability [link]
Task 3.3: Testing of prototypical functionalities, interface, and usability (Month18-45)
Design, implementation and evaluation of prototypes through wide-range surveys
D.3.3 – Design plans and evaluation reports on implemented prototypes [link]