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Trip planner: A web application for planning carpooling between Mid Sweden University's campuses
Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Science, Technology and Media, Department of Information Systems and Technology.
2018 (English)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

Mid Sweden University staff has several different meetings around the year. Most meetings take place in Mid Sweden University's various campuses (Sundsvall and Östersund). In order for the staff to be able to participate in these meetings, rental-cars are rented from different rental companies. The rental cars are used to transport the staff between the university's campuses. The trips are mostly made by one or two people per car which can lead to unneces- sary extra costs. The goal of this project has been to provide a solution to this problem. The solution was in the form of a web application which the staff can use to register and join carpool trips. Since there are many carpool applications out there, the usability of the web application will be compared to the usability of a similar carpool application called GoMore to show if the developed appli- cation has any advantages in usability over similar applications. This was done by doing user-tests with 10 users followed by a questionnaire for each applica- tion. The usability metrics that were evaluated and compared for both applica- tions were the following: effectiveness, time based efficiency and the satisfac- tion of the user. The results showed a slightly better result in effectiveness and time based efficiency for the developed application. The results also showed a greater satisfaction for users who tested GoMore. Although the developed web application did not show a significant difference in usability over GoMore, the developed application is more specific for the university's problem and can be developed even further to suit the university's needs.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2018. , p. 38
Keywords [en]
MIUN, carpooling, usability, web-application.
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Software Engineering
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URN: urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-35622Local ID: DT-V17-G3-028OAI: oai:DiVA.org:miun-35622DiVA, id: diva2:1288104
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Computer Engineering DT1
Educational program
Master of Science in Engineering - Computer Engineering TDTEA 300 higher education credits
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Available from: 2019-02-12 Created: 2019-02-12 Last updated: 2019-08-22Bibliographically approved

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