UI/UX-centric Design of In-the-Field Agricultural Data Acquisition System

In countries that rely on agricultural business, data collection is usually one of the key performance factor. There were lots of efforts in building IT systems for data analysis; however, those systems were frequently fail because data collection process was not efficient. In this paper, we propose the concept of agricultural data acquisition system with focuses on user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) from all stakeholders. This also demonstrates a prototype system called Cowlog, which combines both mobile and web apps for dairy cow industry. After a year of experiment, the result shows that Cowlog can improve performance. Since the design can be generalized, it can be extended to other agricultural applications.