Project Structure

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Project Structure

• Group project 4 or 5 people
• Design and evaluate an interface
• 0 - Team formation topic choice
• 1 - Understand the problem
• 2 - Design alternatives
• 3 - Prototype evaluation plan
• 4 - Evaluation

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Grading

• Project counts for 50 of grade
• 5 parts
• Part 0 2.5 (team formation)
• Part 1 - 10 (problem understanding)
• Part 2 - 12.5 (design alternatives)
• Part 3 - 12.5 (prototype / eval plan)
• Part 4 - 12.5 (evaluation execution)

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Other points

• Human subjects consent
• IRB approval needed
• Learn from past experience
• Look at old projects
• talk to students, TA

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Project themes Think

• Think of someone else
• Avoid being biased by your intuitions
• Think off the desktop!
• Mobile, handheld, environmental
• Think everyday
• Home
• Think about people first, then technology

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Programming requirements

• Leverage team expertise
• Full functionality is NOT intention
• But good evaluation requires authentic experience

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Project Details

• Part 0 - Topic definition Due May 19
• Identify team topic, create web notebook
• IRB certification
• Part 1 - Understanding the problem Due May 28
• Describe tasks, users, environment, social
  context
• Any existing systems in place

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Project Details

• Part 2 - Design alternatives Due June 14
• Storyboards, mock-ups for multiple different
  designs
• Explain decisions
• Poster session in class previous Friday (6/11)
• Part 3 - System prototype eval plan - Due July
  7
• Semi-working interface functionality - enough to
  evaluate
• Plan for conducting evaluation
• Demo prototype

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Project Details

• Part 4 Evaluation Due July 21
• Conduct evaluation with example users
• Characterize pros and cons of the UI
• Fix the easy to fix UI problems
• Present results to class July 21 and 23

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Project Presentations

• Informal poster session
• Feedback on ideas
• June 11
• Other students and expert gallery
• Formal project presentation
• Final week of classes
• 15 minute summary

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Project Groups

• 4 people
• You decide
• Diverse is best!
• Consider schedules
• Cool name
• Recruit members during class

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Project Topics

• Real client
• Professional family and friends?
• Organization you belong to, volunteer with?
• Hobbies or other activities?
• Domain
• Office, home, school

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Previous Project Topics

• Mobile/handheld (cars, tour guides, etc.)
• Wedding planner
• Doctors office
• Calendar agent (speech)
• Audio / Web sites
• Domain that you know well
• More on Class Co-Web

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More ideas on the home

• Home security
• Social communication
• Everyday, reunions
• Sharing Family memories
• Especially digital video and photos
• Supporting everyday activities
• Reminders, finding lost objects, time
  management/scheduling
• Entertainment for all ages
• Support for informal caregivers

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What Makes a Good Project

• Access to domain experts users
• Real clients
• Interesting human issues
• Rich domain for design

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Your turn

• Get into some initial groups (remember a few
  arent here)
• Brainstorm ideas for your group
• Choose a couple and elaborate
• Pause to share ideas with everyone