More senior Researchgate members who are experts in a particular field of science volunteer to contribute and recommend publications to other researchers to read and discuss.  

Researchgate's key contributor feature

A feature that helps researchers to connect and collaborate on COVID-19 research.
Helps search for researchers by location, discipline, location, career level, and skills.

Researchgate Expert Finder 

Experienced members of Researchgate who are experts in a particular field (e.g. epidemiology, ecology, virology, etc) who help make recommendations about what content should be displayed. They do not have the ability to influence the visibility of the content. Also, they do not have the ability to review content that violated Researchgate's policies. 
However, they do have the ability to limit the number of submissions a member can make within a topic area.

Researchgate Community Moderator

Members can post questions and start discussions with other members in their research community. Facilitates the flow of knowledge and progress on one's research 

Researchgate Posting Questions and Discussions

Collabvoid sorts its papers by creating categories (e.g. transmission, treatment, prevention, etc.) Each category has a brief description about it including the total number of papers. It also includes the number of papers that were added within the past seven days and within the past 30 days

Collabvoid Paper Categories

Keyword Search: Finds papers that have matching keywords in their title, abstract, or authors.
- Not be able to generalize a search query

Semantic Search: Recognizes connections between words and finds similarities between papers and the search query.
- Searches for previously unknown research fields using queries in the form of a sentence or question.


Collabvoid: Semantic Search v. Keyword Search

- Lists features and functions that it currently has and will include in the future
- Details where their data comes from 
- Details how uncommon features are used

Collabvoid FAQ Page

Users can select the peer review filter to view publications that have been reviewed or ones that have not been reviewed

COVID Scholar Peer Review Filter

Collabvoid's research map feature displays and categorizes research papers by their location across the globe, utilizing countries, regions, and cities of publication. When a user selects a specific location, the map shows all papers published from that area.

Collabvoid Research Map Feature

Users can apply specific syntax to refine searches in COVID Scholar:
* **Quotes**: Search for a specified multi-word phrase.
* **Plus sign (+)**: Specify that the result must include the search term.
* **Minus sign (-)**: Specify that the result must exclude the search term.
* **Parentheses ()**: Specify that the search matches any of the terms inside (OR logic).
* **Field name:** Search for publications in specific fields.

COVID Scholar Search Syntax

- Find platforms similar to 1Cademy
- Summarize interesting features that could benefit 1Cademy
- Using these findings, come up with solutions to make 1Cademy a better platform

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UX and UI Design of 1Cademy

Experiments have shown that text that is bolded is more likely to be trusted than non-bolded text. This is due to the cognitive strain involved in trying to read non-bolded text compared to bolded text

Cognitive effort of bolded text vs non-bolded text

Comparative Analysis of 1Cademy

Part of what makes a video tutorial engaging is the style of its graphics.  The following are some examples of a lower third (the little text pop-up in the corner with the section title) design.  Exact colors are subject to change.

1Cademy Video Tutorial Lower Third Ideas

Wikipedia launched an interactive tutorial that has both a structure and video game elements that helps new editors get accustomed to Wikipedia's technical requirements and rules/policies

The Wikipedia Adventure (TWA): Field Evaluation of an Interactive Tutorial for New Users

The purpose of this team is to discuss and develop design improvements throughout the interface of 1Cademy, alongside the UX Research team, with the goal of making the 1Cademy platform as intuitive and user friendly as possible.

UI Design Team for 1Cademy

The UX Research team brings together theory and research practice by ideating research questions and design ideas based on concepts and theories from human-computer interaction (HCI) and computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW). Our research informs the design of 1Cademy by addressing the needs, pain points, and motivations of users.

1Cademy UX Research and Design

Application onboarding is the process of introducing new users to a product and helping them engage with it effectively. While acquiring users is difficult, retaining them is often harder; an application typically loses 77% of its active users within the first three days after sign-up. To prevent this rapid drop-off, applications must implement a well-designed onboarding process to create a positive initial experience and encourage long-term use.

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