Development Walkthrough

1. WHATTOREAD
ICS 3211: Intelligent Interfaces II
James Farrugia
Ayrton Azzopardi
Jean Claude Spiteri

2. Brief Overview of the System
•Allows users to search for books by title, author
or ISBN.
•Orders and filters search results based on the
user’s preferred price range and book condition.
•Recommends unread books that match the
user’s preferred:
•Genres
•Authors

4. Brief Overview of the System
•Shows ratings for every book listing.
•Displays a number of reviews and recommends
based on rating before every purchase.

7. Target Population
•The system is intended for avid readers of any
age and gender.
•The system helps people buying books by
combining various sources of information and
recommending unread titles.

8. Initial Stages

9. High Level Overview

10. Paper Prototype

11. Paper Prototype

12. Paper Prototype Feedback
Positive Negative
Uniformity in Design No Proper Price Breakdown
Use of a single search bar No Conversion of Price to
Local Currency
Presence of user written
reviews

13. Computer Prototype
•First Computerised version of the system
included:
•A functioning Search Bar that returns an ordered list of
search results
•Static uncategorised list of Recommendations
•Functioning Review Screen
•Price Breakdown
•Automatic Currency conversion from $ to detected
local currency

14. Computer Prototype

16. Computer Prototype Feedback
Positive Negative
Uniformity in Design Uncategorised
Recommendations
Use of multiple sources of
information
Some delay in computing all
search results
Presence of user written
reviews

17. Final Implementation
•Further fine-tuning of the system was
necessary:
•Recommendations are now categorised into groups
giving a reason for recommendation
•Login System for User Personalisation
•Initial Survey to handle the Cold Start Problem
•Viewing of Purchase History