joshcodd / zoom-prototype

A prototype of an improvement to the zoom chat experience for online lectures.

Zoom Prototype

As part of an assignment for the module Human-computer interaction at university, I was tasked with designing and prototyping an improvement to Zoom, the video conferencing software we currently use for online lectures. The main issue I found with my experience of using Zoom for online teaching was the highly active and off-topic chat, in which questions for the lecturer would be missed.

My prototype includes a real-time chat, along with the following improvements:

• Separate general and questions chat feeds.
• Up-vote and down-vote questions.
• The Top 3 voted questions are always displayed underneath the host's view.
• Questions are read out (text to speech) at a specified amount of votes.
• The host settings allow the lecturer to set the amount of votes questions are read at.
• The student settings allow the student to hide the general chat to avoid distractions.

This prototype had a quick turn around time and did not actually have to be implemented. The aim for this was to demo the improvement made.

Demonstration grade	100%

Access at: https://joshcodd.github.io/zoom-prototype/

What did i learn?

• Firebase.
• Prototyping.

To run locally...

In the root of the project run:

npm install

Then, start the development server with:

npm start

Open http://localhost:3000 to view website in the browser.