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Building an Easy to Use Flexible University Timetabling User Interface

Published: 10 September 2014 Publication History

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University timetabling, better known in the community as course timetabling, is a widely studied issue for problem solving and operational research community. For many years, research groups in many universities have been developing possible solutions that, in most cases, solve only a small portion of the problem. In this poster, we propose a way to solve the timetabling issue using the power of a robust algorithm with a user interface which represents a real-world problem. This algorithm and user interface combination allows us to take into consideration that each university has their own constraints such as a large number of students, limited classrooms, common halls and a certain number of university lecturers, which makes necessary the development of a flexible problem constraints definitions and a proper representation. Preliminary tests show that our user interfaces are mostly accepted and they are easy-to-use for the users involved in the timetabling process of our university.

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    Interacción '14: Proceedings of the XV International Conference on Human Computer Interaction
    September 2014
    435 pages
    ISBN:9781450328807
    DOI:10.1145/2662253
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    Published: 10 September 2014

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    1. Knowledge representation
    2. course timetabling
    3. usability
    4. user-centered design

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    Interacción '14
    Interacción '14: XV International Conference on Human Computer Interaction
    September 10 - 12, 2014
    Tenerife, Puerto de la Cruz, Spain

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