Assignment 12: Progress Reports for Projects

Gerhard Fischer, Hal Eden, and Holger Dick Fall Semester 2010

Foundations of Human Centered Computing Course (CSCI 3002 and CSCI 7000)

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Assignment 12: Progress Reports for Projects

due:

please note different submission date: Monday 11/15; 12pm (noon) on the class website

Structure and Sections REQUIRED for all reports

1. Title
2. Authors
3. Abstract (addressing: what it is you are doing and why that is interesting and important)
4. Keywords
5. Problem / Goal
   11. Statement of the Problem — including how your understanding of the problem has changed while you have worked on it over the period of the course
   1. Rationale — explain why the problem is interesting and important?
6. Methodologies
   11. (e.g.: questionnaire, interview, data analysis, software development, testing of other developments…..)
7. Related Work
   11. use this section to argue the uniqueness of your contribution
   1. Relationship of your Project to the Themes discussed in the Course
8. Characterization of the Individual Contributions
9. Findings and Results so far
10. Further developments planned till the end of the semester
11. References

Oral Presentation:

if you use slides for your presentation — please upload them to your project site in the wiki before your presentation!

Presentation Schedule

Monday, Nov 15:

• Makeshift Crew: Identification and Analysis of Existing Meta-Design Environments
• Awesome: Warehouses with Interactive Content
• Hiphophippotomi: Model-Authoritative versus Model-Democratic
• Three Guys & a Girl: Wikipedia versus KNOL

Wednesday, Nov 17

• Storm Drain: Representing and Visualizing Energy Use
• Cacti: Using a Location-Based Service to Influence Personal Energy Usage
• WeLovePeaches: A Framework for “What Motivates People to Participate?”