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.

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

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

• 1.1.1.4 Guests shall be able to see trending projects.

• 1.1.2.1 Registered users shall be able to login by using their e-mail addresses and passwords, or with their Google accounts.

• 1.1.2.2 Guests shall provide their account information while registering.

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

• 1.1.3.1 Registered users shall be able to follow public accounts without sending requests.

• 1.1.3.4 Registered users shall be able to comment & rate Registered users if they worked together in a workspace.

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

• 1.1.6.1 A user shall be able to search only public workspaces, upcoming events, and any profile using keywords.

• 1.1.6.2 Users shall be able to do an advanced search on only public workspaces, upcoming events, and any profile by specifying filters.

• 1.1.6.3 Users shall be able to sort search results according to the sorting criteria.

• 1.2.1.1 The home page shall have a site map to navigate the users.

• 1.2.1.2 The home page shall have an activity stream for registered users.

• 1.2.1.3 The home page shall have date information about upcoming events.

• 1.2.1.4 The home page shall provide a mechanism that users can use to search.

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

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

• 1.2.2.3 Search engine shall support semantic search.

• 1.2.2.4 Search engine shall list the finding in the following order if the user has no choice: Exact Matches(Decreasing match rate), Semantic Search Matches(Decreasing match rate)

• 1.2.3.1 The platform shall support a recommendation system.

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

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

• 1.2.6.1 The system shall provide a profile page for all registered users.

• 1.2.6.2 The profile page shall provide account information.

• 1.2.6.3 The profile page should be fetched from the users' Google Scholar or ResearchGate account, if Google Scholar or ResearchGate account is provided to the system.

• 1.2.6.4 The profile page shall provide a comments and rating section.

• 1.2.6.5 The 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.