Amaethon - A Web Application for Farm Management and An Assessment of Its Utility

• Main Author: Yero, Tyler
• Format: Others
• Published: DigitalCommons@CalPoly 2012
• Subjects: farm management web application AJAX Restful; Computer and Systems Architecture; Data Storage Systems; Other Computer Engineering
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/911; https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1962&context=theses

Amaethon is a web application that is designed for enterprise farm management. It takes a job typically performed with spreadsheets, paper, or custom software and puts it on the web. Farm administration personnel may use it to schedule farm operations and manage their resources and equipment. A survey was con- ducted to assess Amaethon’s user interface design. Participants in the survey were two groups of students and a small group of agriculture professionals. Among other results, the survey indicated that a calendar interface inside Amaethon was preferred, and statistically no less effective, than a map interface. This is despite the fact that a map interface was viewed by some users as a potentially important and effective component of Amaethon.