Visualizing Ocular Trauma Causes in the Philippines: A Heatmap Analysis

This descriptive-developmental study focuses on the development of a web-based application visualizing ocular trauma incidents at the Department of Health Eye Clinic (DOHEC) East Avenue Manila. The Scrum developmental approach was employed as software paradigm while a Gantt chart was necessary on project management to monitor the development of the project. The authors conducted software development checks against a schedule of a 30-day sprint along with designated scrum meetings and software requirement backlog reviews. Microsoft Visual Studio Code was necessary as a source code editor, XAMMP for testing prototypes on localhost computer without an access to the internet, and CodeIgniter building dynamic website with PHP. A beta testing was conducted with the DOHEC consultants and staff to ensure that the web software will comply the software requirements and bugs will be corrected and risks will be mitigated. The study requires both pilot tests for acceptability and software quality evaluation which were conducted with DOHEC officials and computer specialists, respectively. A purposive sampling method was used for determining a sample from the population. This study involved 11 Computing and IT Professionals, 4 or 36.36% of whom were Professors 7 or 63.63% of whom were Industry Computing Professionals in user software quality evaluation using ISO 25010 instrument. On the DOHEC office, only 2 consultants have taken the user acceptance evaluation using Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) instrument. The research instruments were administered online using Google Forms and was then transferred to spreadsheet application for data analysis and statistical treatment. The system was rated by CS and IT professionals with ISO 25010 with a weighted mean score of 4.97. While the respondents from DOHEC Personnel rated the system using TAM instrument with 5.00 weighted mean score indicating that the developed web application qualified to be accepted by the Eye Clinic Doctors.