CSE 599E1 Assignment: Project proposal

Due: Friday, October 4, 2016; submission dropbox
Also due: Thursday, October 10, 2016; submission dropbox

Submit a proposal describing a user study that you will perform during the term. This should include:

• Descriptive title
• Introduction (motivation, research questions including why they are relevant to ask and the consequences of different outcomes)
• Experiment described from both the point of view of the experimenters and the point of view of the participants. What will you measure, and how will you analyze it?
• Related work. In what ways have other people addressed this question? What are the distinctions from your proposed work?

It is acceptable for some of these to be in bullet point form. The most important thing is that the content is well-organized and clear.

I recommend that you plan to evaluate a tool or technique that is essentially complete. It is harder to create and run a user study than you anticipate, so you won't have a lot of time to create a tool as well as evaluate it. Furthermore, you don't want your study to be held hostage to problems with the tool.

You should start to