Likhitha’s Status Reports

Last week I worked on the speedometer as the transition wasn’t smooth. For this, my existing knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JS wasn’t enough and as I mentioned in my previous status reports, I have had to learn how to use D3 JS more extensively. …

This week, I made changes to the AJAX implementation when I realized during testing that it had some bugs. I also used the knowledge about SQLite queries in Django that I learned in past weeks to test whether the implementation works as it should. It …

This week, I worked on updating the UI and am reworking the AJAX portion of the web app. I made slight changes to the design of the barometer on the Javascript end so that it should render differently when functioning i.e. the colors fill up …

This week, I continued to tweak the CSS of the web app and attempted to test the AJAX functioning. I simplified some of the more dynamic UI elements and made them static – instead of a carousel of cards to choose dining halls, there will …

Over the past week, I updated the UI and the AJAX required to update live wait time information: https://github.com/santacalculus/No-Time-to-Dine-capstone. I’m working on refining the CSS design at the moment to make the webpage appear cleaner, and debugging the code for the main menu page where users choose …

This week, I continued implementing the UI while simultaneously working on AJAX with some dummy hardcoded data. The login page and registration page have been implemented without OAuth and only using Django’s authentication package for now – I’m a little unfamiliar with implementing OAuth so …

In the earlier week, I went through the results of the user studies conducted with various design ideas and came across an interesting paper [linked HERE] that led to a massive redesign of our initial idea. This resulted in our idea going from a simple …

This week I researched on what is the optimal database for us to use. We considered DocumentDB by Amazon AWS as it is a popular choice as a cloud database, however, MongoDB Atlas emerged as the better choice. As discussed in our presentation last week, …

This week, I started doing research on the different UIs used by apps and also published papers and other work in the UI space on how to design for users who are looking at wait times. Some of the work I have found useful and …