Group name:Students

Background:

    Age: 14-35

    Gender: An equal number of girls and boys are dyslexic. It is thought that boys are more likely to act out as a result of having a reading difficulty and are therefore more likely to be identified early. Girls, on the other hand, are more likely to try to "hide" their difficulty, becoming quiet and reserved.

    Education: In different stages of the education system all from high school through university

    Abilities/disabilities: They all have similar problems reading text, the severity of the problem is different though.

    General computer knowledge: Generally computer knowledge is well above average for students.

The Usage:

  • How often: Daily use, mostly when studying or doing assignments.
  • How much each time: That depends on the time needed to finish studying or finishing assignments. Around couple of hours a day.
  • The users skills: This particular system requires minimal skills to operate, and only knowledge of how to install Google extensions, that is a 2 click operation so it should be for everyone to install.
  • Estimated number of users: 15-20% of all students.

The Context of Use:

  • The real environment: The system would be used at school and at home for students that study at home.

  • The technical environment: Our software is a chrome extension which is a program that is used in the Google Chrome browser.

The User Goals:

  • The main goals that this user group wants to accomplish: The most important and main goal of this user group is reading text unhindered from their disability.

The Importance:

  • How important is the user group for making the system?
    • This is the core user group for the system, most of them would hopefully use the software in the future after their studies are done