The Interactive Design On Mobile Information Seeking For College Students Preparing For Graduate Entrance Exam

The new mobile internet era has arrived in China which hasbeing completely changed our lives. Now, the mobile Internetapplications focus on the area of life, such as mobile games, LBS andso on. To meet the information needs of college students who arepositive recipients and active practitioners is an important part of thedevelopment of mobile Internet, but there is rare mobile service forcollege students studying, especially for those preparing for GraduateEntrance Exam. This paper takes college students’ typical studyingstage preparing for Graduate Entrance Exam for example, hasexplored in depth their needs of mobile information and done theinteraction design research, so as to ameliorate the way they learn, toimprove learning efficiency.The current study, using goal-directed design methods, by theprogressive sequence of user research, personal model, requirementsdefinition, interactive analysis, interface prototype design andusability testing, researches the interaction design of mobileinformation seeking for the students preparing for Graduate EntranceExam. First of all, this paper used ELIS model to do user research. Then this paper obtains pioneering, inherent resource-based andinterest-oriented three types of users through cluster analysis of theresults of user research, defines pioneering as the primary personawho has seen the help of senior as the main way of informationseeking and emotional support. In addition, integrated with all aspectsof difficulties faced by those this paper builds up the context scenario,and defines requirements. After that, this paper analyzes interactiveframework and pointes out four key scenario flows. Finally, thiscurrent study puts forward higher-fidelity interface, finds out theexisting problems in the design by prototype’s usability testing andimproved them.The research has two innovation points. Firstly, based on userresearch on environmental analysis, motivation, attitude,information-seeking behavior patterns and scenarios of informationseeking, it was found that college students mainly take use of socialnetwork based on alumni or classmate for seeking information andemotional support. Then, a brand-new interactive solution forinformation seeking was put forward. Secondly, it expands theapplication and explanation of ELIS model by applying it to userresearch of design area.