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 fieldwork teachers about the current situation of using assistance tools; 2) a field experiment in which the use of paper maps and a mobile tool were compared during a geography fieldwork trip; 3) an ethnographic study through questionnaires, interviews and observations in a real human geography fieldwork of Beijing Normal University (BNU); 4) post-fieldwork surveys among undergraduates from BNU (another human geography fieldwork) and Ghent University (a human geography fieldwork).