2012 summer school 12-14 september, enea, rome, italy web and multimedia database design flavio...

2012 Summer School 12-14 September, ENEA, Rome, ITALY 2012 Summer School 12-14 September, ENEA, Rome, ITALY

Web and multimedia database design

Flavio FontanaFlavio Fontana

ENEA Usability Lab, Department of Computer Science, University ENEA Usability Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Rome, Italyof Rome, Italy

[email protected]@enea.it

2012 Summer School H-DATA 12-14 September 2012, Rome, Italy


Usability & Media Laboratory: Ulab

The ENEA Usability Lab is an experienced experts and developers group in web applications, multimedia database design and distributed systems for the fruition of e-learning contents by means of Internet.

The Usability Lab organizes usability testing sessions since 1992.

The Usability Lab issue is to improve the effectiveness, the efficiency and the users systems satisfaction by advanced methods of usability testing and design.


ContentsContents

• IntroductionIntroduction• Web-DB & UsabilityWeb-DB & Usability• Technologies and Technologies and

ProjectsProjects• Experimental scenarioExperimental scenario• Conclusions and future Conclusions and future

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University Course

Elements of design databases in the internet network, design methodologies and validation, usability testing.

University of Rome "La Sapienza", Computer Science Department.

“Web and Multimedia database design”


STAFF

• Flavio Fontana

Enrico Cosimi

• Giangiacomo Ponzo

• Emilia Cristauro

• Experts

• Alessandro Lo Tenero

• Nicoletta Minelli

External Collaborators:

• Marco Di Domenico

• David D’Arcangelo

• Daniele Vannicelli

Sta Students

• Young Researchers Course: Laboratorio di Basi di Dati IIIngegneria della Università La Sapienza di Roma


Activities

• WEB-DB: Web-Database, design, research & development, implementation of advanced Web applications and multimedia databases .

Advanced Visual Interface(AVI) : Studies of visual interface based graphics and multimedia. Study and construction of icons libraries for databases query in Internet.

• Advanced Web Search (AWS) : Research and testing of search engines on websites and databases with flexible selection criteria in connection with users profiles.

• Usability, measurement and testing : Direct observation methods and testing of usability with assistance. Evaluation of complexity and usability degree the systems.

• Multimedia: Research and development of advanced video-communication systems of seminars and lectures on the Internet.

• University Course : Elements of design databases in the internet network, design methodologies and validation tests usability - databases Laboratory 2 course(LABBDII), University of Rome "La Sapienza", Information Department. Thesis degree, internships and research grants.


WEB-DB

Web-Multimedia Database Design

Research & development of innovative query system and tools.

Implementation of advanced web applications to manage and inquiry multimedia databases.


CARDs

The CARD is an complex object (class) to build a visual interface, based on graphic objects, to manage and inquire database.

The CARS could be organized in stacks.

Each CARD is composed by the following elements: plane, background, field (table), botton (functions), title, text, icons and image.

The Card represent for the user the data domain in terms of: coloured objects, icons, etc. These objects are managed in libraries (database, library, simple and complex query).


CARDs


DYNAMIC ICONS

Query area

Main Menu

Result Area

Query Pre-def.

Query Icons


DYNAMIC ICONS


ROOMS

Main Menu

DB Label

Door

QuerySymbol

FunctionBotton

Lift


ROOMS

Main Menu

Query

CARD& Text

ResultDisplay


Web-DB CARDManagement

ManagementManagement

Query Area

CARD AreaResult Display Area



Icon Area



InquiryInquiry


<html>

<head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type"content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage Express 2.0"><title></title></head>

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><% Ricerca=Request.querystring("Ricerca")Table=Request.querystring("Table")DB=Request.querystring("DB")Key=Request.querystring("Key")ViewField=Request.querystring("ViewField")SearchField=Request.querystring("SearchField")Index=Request.querystring("Index")Esatta=Request.querystring("Esatta")Where=Request.querystring("Where")Ricerca2=Ricercaif Esatta="no" thenRicerca="%"+Ricerca+"%"end if%><%' Open ACCESS database''definizione della stringa di connessione'dsn = "DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};DBQ=" & Server.MapPath("../"&db&".mdb")'dsn = "DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};DBQ=" & "c:/database_per_web/chiese_di_roma/"&db&".mdb“''definizione dell' oggetto connessioneset conn=server.createobject("adodb.connection")''apertura della connessioneconn.open dsn' set up sql statement'if Where="" thensql = "select * from "+Table+" where "+SearchField+" LIKE '"+Ricerca+"' order by "+ViewField+" asc"elseWhere2=replace(Where,"*","%")sql ="select * from "+Table+" where "+Where2+" order by "+ViewField+" asc"end ifSet RS = Conn.Execute(sql)

ASP, PHP, JSP, ASP, PHP, JSP, JavaJavaC++C++


• "home” Homepage"home” Homepage• TEXT pageTEXT page• Menu PageMenu Page• TEXT, Title, etc.TEXT, Title, etc.• Navigation BottonsNavigation Bottons• Logos, Banner, Icons, Logos, Banner, Icons, ImagesImages• LinksLinks• Backgrounds, Backgrounds, • etc.etc.

Foundamental Website Elements



• "home” Homepage"home” Homepage• TEXT pageTEXT page• Menu PageMenu Page• TEXT, Title, etc.TEXT, Title, etc.• Navigation BottonsNavigation Bottons• Logos, Banner, Icons, Logos, Banner, Icons, ImagesImages• LinksLinks• Backgrounds, Backgrounds, • etc.etc.

Foundamental Website Elements

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Web-DB iCARDsManagement & Inquiry

iCARDs

• i Management auto fields selection• i Inquiry• i Navigation• i user profiling• Etc.

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