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Interaction Design - Project

TDA501

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Today

• The project
• Examination recap

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The Course

• A few lectures
• Some design exercises
• A few of literature seminars
• A large group project
• An individual home assignment
• Check home page

– http://www.cs.chalmers.se/idc/ituniv/kurser/08/idproj/

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Overview

Exhibition 20 17 16 11 Easter Holiday 12 6 7 8 Individual assignment 22 Report 21 19

Project Work

18 15 14 Re-examination week 13 10

Project Work

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Aesthetics in Interaction Design

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Projects

• Theme:

– Games and playful interaction design – (with an awareness of aesthetics)

• Requirements:

– Projects should involve information technology as a key component – Projects should have a clear relation to the course theme

• Groups: formed by you

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Extended memory

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Projects

• Theme:

– Games and playful interaction design – (with an awareness of aesthetics)

• Requirements:

– Projects should involve information technology as a key component – Projects should have a clear relation to the course theme

• Almost anything but not administrative systems

for instance

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Process

• This week form groups and start generating

ideas

• Wednesday February 13

– Hand in 3 proposals

• Thursday February 14

– Present proposals to class

• Week 8

– Supervision concerning ideas

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Process

• Monday Februry 25

– Present proposal to class and external judges

• February 28

– Hand in initial design document – Details presented later

• Week 10-11 peer review of design

documents

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Process

• April 3

– Low-fi prototype demo – More details will be given

• April 7

– Hand in written feedback on low fi prototypes – More details will be given

• April 10

– Hand in revised design document

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Process

• May 8

– Project web site on line

• Week 20

– Exhibition

• May 22

– Hand in project report

• May 30

– Hand in individual assignment

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Documents

• 3 proposals

– Rather brief – Concept description – Description of the context of use – Possible users and, last but not least – Why this project is interesting, i.e., what do you want to explore by implementing it?

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Initial Design Document

• More details will be given later!

– Description of your idea or concept, motivate your choice and give a short background description. – Some sort of picture or sketch of the concept. – Description of how you have planned to implement and how you plan to realise your idea. – If your project is dependent on a certain technology, then describe this. – Suggestion of criteria for how you can validate how well you have succeeded with your project. – A time-plan for how you imagine to realise the different parts of the project.

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Peer Review

• The groups review each others initial design

documents

• Revised version produced
• Details to appear

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Report

• 2 parts

– Web – Traditional written report – Both important (35-65 could still change)

• Web

– Presentation and downloads

• Paper

– All details

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Exhibition

• For the public
• Open several days
• Likely location Navet
• Working prototype
• Information poster(s)

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Exhibition PR

• Web site
• Written invitation
• Press releases
• Voluntary work

– Consider interest – Fun – Useful for portfolio/CV

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Supervision

• Each group will get a supervisor
• Supervision concerning technology will

exist

• Similar to Ubicomp course

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File area

• Each group will get a shared file area on a

Chalmers server

• Store project material
• CVS
• Web site
• Technically as web sites in Ubicomp
• Available later this week (hopefully)

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Examination

• To pass the course you should

– Actively participate in all parts of the course – Do the project

• Details will be explained in 2 weeks

– Write an approved project report – Write 2 individual home assignments

• Grading

– Chalmers: Fail, 3, 4, 5 – GU: Pass and Pass with distinction (G, VG)

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Examination continued

• The course grade is determined by upon the

following weighed average of the grades on the assignments:

– 30% Report – 20% Demonstrator – 10% Exhibitions – 10% Oral presentations of concepts – 10% Assessed individual contribution – 20% Individual assignment

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Course Evaluation

• Same as in other courses
• Volunteers?

– ID, Chalmers – MDI/ID – ISD – GU

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Register

• Chalmers students

– Student portal – Interaction design

• Student centre maskingränd
• kristina.nystrom@chalmers.se

– MDI/ID

• IT-university
• studieadministration@ituniv.se
• GU students

– Ida Holmgren – studievagledare@cs.chalmers.se