Webbaserat resultat och uppföljningsprogram för idrottsförening

Sammanfattning: Students at the School of Engineering at Jönköping University have on behalf of the swimming organization “Nässjö Sim och Livräddningssällskap” conducted research on how to monitor and evaluate swimmers and swimming groups in a simple and efficient manner with a focus on usability and user friendliness. Since no system existed that could meet these requirements, the client had a desire to tailor and develop such a system. The purpose of this work was to develop a system that would work as a tool to be used by coaches and swimmers alike and allow them to eventually follow the development of swimmers and swimming groups. The organization also wanted to have the ability to create tests and exams, both for land and water training, register these in the system and in a structured way know which swimmers took and passed these. For this thesis, the following questions functioned as a framework for progress. UsabilityHow to design a usable system and what is required? SystemWhat type of system is best suited to meet the client's requirements and preferences? Competition resultsHow can one retrieve all the competition results for swimmers of Nässjö SLS? DatabaseWhat type of database is best suited to easily share data with an external existing database? Usability has been the main focus throughout the project. In order to succeed and stay on track, the students turned to the usability guru Jakob Nielsen, and his 10 heuristic rules have worked as guidelines. The work is also founded on the theories and tests Nielsen conducted on how people interact with a web-based system. The result of the project is a working prototype of the system without access to the competition results as the students together with the client decided that the procedure to access the database containing results from competitions became too difficult, time consuming and costly. From the perspective of functionality, focus turned to a system that can display a development curve for swimmers and swimming groups based on training and the results from tests and exams.