In that regard, the present paper provides an extended report to the car photos catalogue proposed in previous assignments, and which will cover such aspects as the description of the potential users of the collection, a description of the proposed collection, and an overview of the accompanying prototype, developed for the collection.
Users and Scenarios
The first example of a typical user of the collection is a car enthusiast. Such person is most likely a young male, aged 4-30, who likes everything about cars. With most of the photos are of unique cars, including sports models and premium class models, it is unlikely that such person owns any of the cars listed. Accordingly, such person is most likely have a previous knowledge on the topic of his/her choice, which he/she wants to expand. The search purposes of such person, i.e. his information wants might be divided between finding a technical characteristic of the car of interest, finding a picture of the car of interest, or any of the latter applied to general characteristic, rather than a specific model, i.e. a red 979 sports car, in
stead of 979 Porsche 930 Turbo. The information demands of such user can be represented through either a direct query of a particular model, assuming previous knowledge, or a search query through keywords.
Another example of a typical user can be seen through web and graphical designers. The characteristic of such person does not contradict the fact that he/she might be a car enthusiast as well, although the primary attributes might be different. Such person can be described as any male/female, aged 8-35, involved in website or graphical design. The primary interest to such person is the photos of the car, where the car serve as a general theme, and the photos as tools or elements of a particular project. The information wants of such person revolve around a photo of a car that will fit into the design of a project with a corresponding thematic. The information demand will be represented through queries that reflect aesthetic characteristic of the photo, rather than technical. Such characteristics can be translated into queries reflecting colour, setting, age, i.e. modern, new, style, etc.