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The traceability systems of agricultural and food products have been developed for a few years. Due to the fact that building construction projects are typically more complex and have long project durations, the builders are less willing to engage in the development of building traceability systems for construction projects. Starting from 2016, the Kaohsiung city government took the first step to develop and promote a building construction traceability system for building construction quality assurance in Taiwan. In the future, builders are required to input the construction inspection records into the system during the building construction process. However, this system is designed in such a way that records are input from personal computers. This creates more job load for site engineers because they need to first keep the records on paper in the field and then input the data into the system using the computer in the office. In light of this, this research would like to design a more user-friendly interface so that it’s easier for the engineer to directly input the inspection data using their hand-held devices on site. To achieve this, Responsive Web Design and Bootstrap framework are adopted to develop the new interface. Also, feedbacks and suggestions from current users are collected and incorporated into the new design.
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Lee, M., Wang, YR. & Huang, CF. Design and development of a friendly user interface for building construction traceability system. Microsyst Technol 27, 1773–1785 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00542-019-04547-4
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