Follow Mechanism Scenario

Image 1. Germonie Hranger with the antenna she produced

Persona

• Germione Hranger
• 35 years old, female
• Electrical and Electronics Engineering - Bs - Ogwarts University - 2005
• Telecommunication Engineering - Ms with thesis - Ogwarts University - 2019 (Thesis Title: Visualization of radio-wave transmission in the ionosphere)
• Working in "Lingardium Waveiosa" (a Telecom Company) in the satellite communication department as a senior manager

Goals

• Seeks projects about radiowaves and inter-satellite communication
• Seeks people she wants to do her Ph.D. under their supervision

User Story

Germione was a successful student in her undergraduate years. While she was studying, all she wanted to do was to become an academician. Unfortunately, a month before she started her last year of undergraduate, she went to an internist complaining about severe abdominal pain and vomiting, and unfortunately, she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Immediately, she started treatment. It took 17 months to set on her feet. Therefore, she made a two years break in her study. However, during her treatment phase, her family got a big amount of credit to cover the expenses of her treatment. Therefore, her family was deeply in debt and to be able to pay back the debt Germione decided to find a job immediately rather than going into academic life. After she graduated, she started to work in an antenna production company. After she worked there for three years, she began to work for a company called Lingardium Waveiosa as a satellite communication engineer. She is working there for 8 years and she became a senior manager during these years. However, she feels that she has completed her mission in the industrial area and wants to continue her career in academic life. Since she received her master's degree last year, she feels ready to make her dreams come true.

Scenario

Germione decides to continue her life in academics and she wants to apply for a few universities to start her Ph.D. degree. To decide the universities for which she applies, she makes a google search so that she can find academicians with whom she can work together in her research field. She writes the search bar the following: "how to find academicians in telecommunications". And she is faced with our website top of the search result. She clicks the website. She encounters with guest home page. She reads the project's posts and upcoming events section on her screen. Then, she sees the search and advanced search bars. She clicks the advanced search and writes "telecommunication" into the research area section. Then, she receives the search results. She interests with the first person "Parry Hotter" and clicks the name. The profile page of Parry Hotter is opened, she looks for his university "Driffindor University", she keeps it in her mind to apply later her Ph.D. in that university. To follow him, she decides to open an account, she clicks the register button. The registration page is opened and she provides her information. After she registers, she begins to follow him.

Acceptance Criteria

• 1.1.1.1 Guests shall be able to register by providing account information which includes name, surname, e-mail, affinities and optionally profile photo, past research, ResearchGate, and Google Scholar accounts.

• 1.1.1.3 Guests shall accept the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy in order to register.

• 1.1.1.4 Guests shall be able to do basic & advanced search with using filters.

• 1.1.1.5 Guests shall be able to see upcoming events and their details, and project descriptions.

• 1.1.1.6 Guests should be able to see trending projects.

• 1.1.2.1 Users shall be able to login by using their e-mail addresses and passwords.

• 1.1.3.1 Users shall be able to follow public accounts.

• 1.1.3.4 Users shall be able to comment & rate users that are collaborated with.

• 1.1.5.4 A user shall be able to view public profile pages.

• 1.1.6.1 A user and a guest shall be able to search public workspaces, upcoming events, and users using keywords.

• 1.1.6.2 Users and guests shall be able to do an advanced search on only public workspaces, upcoming events, and any profile by specifying filters such as founder of the project, starting date, submission deadline, research area/topic and labels.

• 1.2.1.1 System shall provide the activities of the users that are followed or in collaboration as a stream in the home page.

• 1.2.1.2 System shall provide date information about upcoming events.

• 1.2.1.3 System should provide profile recommendations for new people to follow.

• 1.2.1.4 System shall provide workspace recommendations for Users which are at Search for Collaborators State according to the requirements explained in 1.2.4.

• 1.2.2.1 System shall provide a mechanism that users can use to search.

• 1.2.2.2 Search engine shall search content concerning the research area, topic, and scope.

• 1.2.2.3 Search engine shall provide recent search history for the users.

• 1.2.2.4 System shall support searching for semantically related content.

• 1.2.2.5 System should have a tag mechanism to enhance the recommendation, searching and related functionalities.

• 1.2.3.1 The platform shall support a recommendation system.

• 1.2.3.2 The platform shall provide definitive labels according to the user's skills.

• 1.2.3.3 Recommendation system shall recommend appropriate projects for the interests and technical suitability to Users.

• 1.2.3.4 Recommendation system shall recommend appropriate Users for the projects which are at the Search for Collaborators State.

• 1.2.6.1 A profile page shall be public or private.

• 1.2.6.2 Profile Page of any user shall be different from each other at least by e-mail information.

• 1.2.6.3 Profile page shall include the research information which is fetched from Google Scholar or ResearchGate account of the user if this accounts are provided to the system.

• 1.2.6.4 Profile page shall provide the follower information which is the number of followers, the number of followed users and links to profile pages followers and followed users.

• 1.2.6.5 Profile page shall provide account information which includes name, surname, e-mail certainly and affinities, profile photo, research, ResearchGate and Google Scholar accounts if these information is provided to the system.

• 1.2.6.6 A public profile page and all information provided (described in 1.2.6.3, 1.2.6.4, 1.2.6.5) shall be able to be viewed by any user in the system.

• 1.2.6.7 A private profile page and all information provided (described in 1.2.6.3, 1.2.6.4, 1.2.6.5) shall be able to be viewed by only the followers of the owner of the profile page.