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Academica: Maryland’s iSchool faculty network
Scott Abromowitz
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Academica seeks to ease the process of identifying potential doctorial/master’s advisors for prospective students Also, aids academics/researchers in collaborative research
With a magnitude of information available online and no easy way to curtail relevant from irrelevant information related to professors
Create easily digestible biographies that overcome usability issues of a professor’s website Many are outdated or poorly designed
Focus on visualization - Quickly spot and see where funding is going and what resources the funding is achieved from
What is Academica
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Similar Products
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VIVO is the most similar to the functionality of Academica, as it strives to create an interface for academic collaboration.
Limited use – People must setup their own profile for optimal use (citations/bibliographic data)
Difference: Does not focus on funding or citation count
VIVO
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Offers a basic bio, yet not automatically generated and users can pick and chose what is visible.
The system is lacking in graphic visualization – only shows funding amounts as numbers and not visual (only textual)
Mendeley
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Limited to searching and seeing citation count and co-investigators
Must create custom profiles on Google if desire for more personalization
Microsoft automatically generates a profile – but lacks funding information
Microsoft Academic Search & Google Scholar
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Visualization of data Focus on funding Visualization
This is difficult to find – Though I purpose a future system that crawls websites for available data
Not one-size fits all approach: It utilizes/incorporates numerous data sources
Why Different?
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The Home Screen
Search box
Basic information explaining the purpose of Academica
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In designing the home screen, I strive to create an experience that is quick and to the point (no distractions pointing users to different services)
The basic functionality are explained to the user as various points. I would desire a link that connects users to more
information for better clarification in a future iteration.
I chose to place trees in the back of the search button to create an artistic and personal feeling
Friendly and Welcoming
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iSchool Faculty Page
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Traditional – Alphabetical order BIG pictures – for an easy representation of
the faculty member List of interest
iSchool Faculty Page
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iSchool Faculty Page
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Faculty Bio Page
Word cloud – automatically generated based on relevant topics in the professor’s research (papers, articles, books, et.)
Photograph generated from content services such as Microsoft Academic Search
Citation – Generated from Microsoft Academic Search
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Funding & Grants Page
Graphic depiction of data
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Publication Page
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Help students better analyze potential advisor’s to see his/her funding and if there is a research fit A student may see the historical view of the professor, yet
over time this perspective/research focus might change Data is automatically generated – No interaction by the
professors (since little incentive to incorporate data) Focus, focus, focus on visualization – Better understand
funding and where it comes from – try to see influence of such funding on professors or their research
Why use Academica?