I am trying to designing a web portal for a school. What human factors and visualizing and accessing ways should imposed here for simplicity. As different aged student will gonna use it, so what factors need to be concerned for attracting them?
sorry for an open answer, but I must ask you to do your own research. Nobody on ResearchGate will be able to give you better answers than your users. No one will have a deeper insight into the user needs of "Bangladesh students in varying and unspecified age groups studying in an unspecified school level" than the users themselves. And even if you specify school level and age groups it won't make much of a difference. The situation is too complex for an outsider to anticipate the important issues.
When you interview them, address topics like these:
What devices do you have to access the school portal?
How do you organise your studies?
When do you study?
Add the same questions regarding homework.
Are you studying in groups? How large is the group? How do you meet? When? How do you agree on a topic for meeting?
Do you "report" to someone (like parents, supervisor, ...). Who is it?
Do you experience any difficulties regarding your studies today?
... and more.
Ask open questions and then let them talk. You have to ask the right questions in the right way. If you do you will find it invaluable. If you need directions regarding the methodology you may e.g. look into 'contextual inquiry' (Beyer & Holtzblatt).
Thanks Mr Wang. I have started working on forming questionnaire for interview. Can you share more resources for forming those questions. I think sometimes recording devices like video camera or audio recorder may affect the interviewer normal work. And here is another factor that i am going to develop system for school students. So what should be the approach for interviewing them.
I will add one more thing, if it's possible check design thinking (D-thinking) methodology which is very famous one, SAP also using this methodology for there new and existence products, maybe it can also help you in your research work.
In addition to making a questionnaire I would recommend you to organize a user workshop or a focus group, because it allows receive direct feedback from the participants, who would be integrated by the students group. Patrick Jordan in his book Introduction to Usability has a chapter devoted to the methods of usability evaluation that could serve you as a guide. Greetings.