Specifying the Context of Use and Analyzing the User Requirements

Chapter 4 of this research includes both online survey, paper surveies and interview to collect the user requirements for a smartphone application.They are: 1) an online survey of geography fieldworkteachers about the current situation of using assistance tools; 2) a field experiment inwhich the use of paper maps and a mobile tool were compared during a geographyfieldwork trip; 3) an ethnographic study through questionnaires, interviews andobservations in a real human geography fieldwork of Beijing Normal University (BNU);4) post-fieldwork surveys among undergraduates from BNU (another human geographyfieldwork) and Ghent University (a human geography fieldwork).