Desenvolvimento de um protótipo funcional de agenda acadêmica com a colaboração de estudantes universitários

Abstract

Smartphones are present in the daily lives of students, who can benefit from this technology to facilitate their academic routine. More than users, students can become co-author of technologies for their use. Participatory Design, in addition to promoting co-authoring in collaborative environments between users and developers, has the potential to promote quality in the final product and greater acceptance of new technologies. When conducting a literature review to find contributions to software development using participatory approaches with the collaboration of university students, however, it was found that there is a lack of a software process with welldefined and documented activities. This work, therefore, aims to integrate Participatory Design practices to Software Engineering in the domain of the Public University, with the collaboration of students. In addition, an exploratory research is presented, which served to identify the main problems faced by students from the Campus Alegrete of the Federal University of Pampa (UNIPAMPA). The proposed prototype is intended to assist in the Academic Agenda project, which seeks to mitigate some of the problems revealed by the students: difficulty in managing time and maintaining an organized routine, reconciling academic and personal activities; difficulty in feeling motivated and focused to study in addition to not being able to meet the stipulated deadlines; misinformation about university events, news and Complementary Activities of Graduation. Thus, the Academic Agenda project was developed, an application that shall allow students to organize their daily tasks and be informed of the availability of Complementary Graduation Activities, as well as university news and events and to try to engage students more to be productive and responsible with their daily tasks, using gamification, which employs game mechanics in a different context, usually to motivate people and make a task a little more enjoyable.