Human Computer Interface, Getting Started
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 19:27:12 -0800 (PST)
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I am not sure this is the best place to post so let me know if I should post someplace else. I work for a state environmental wastewater agency that hired an outside contractor to design an oracle web based database to track wastewater violations and enforcements. The project went very poorly, a few careers damaged, a new contractor was hired, and now several dozen of us "power users" have been given the task of redesigning the screens and we do not have enough knowledge to specify what we want. We know what we want, but I am afraid if we do not specifically ask for a feature, we will be told it is not possible or at least be met by silence. The names of a few books and authors are what are needed. I do not think what we would ask for would be too hard to do.
There are a number of different types of permits such as landfills, discharges to streams and ocean, discharge to percolation ponds, storm water, underground fuel tanks, toxic chemicals into groundwater and others. The diversity requires that certain choices be available for one permit type and not available for others. Also, if there are a number of violations for a site, it would be nice to have a screen that allows one enforcement activity to be linked with all the associated violations by checking the boxes near the violations list. Redundant facilities are also a problem because may times an inexperienced user will create a new facility when one already exists. Violations can be split between two facilities that should have been only one entity. What books do you recommend? Received on Thu Dec 06 2007 - 04:27:12 CET