Group Projects

Groups

You will be working in groups for your project assignment.


Assignment After you have decided with your group members which project to pursue, you will need to address the following questions and write down clear answers for us.

Part 1 (Due Feb 9 by 9:00am)
Written project proposal. No more than 2 pages. Use the proposal as the initial draft of your final project paper.

  1. What’s your proposed title? Provide a brief and meaningful title to your project
  2. In one sentence, indicate to us what important, relevant, and unsolved idea you are pursuing
  3. Why this idea matters?
  4. What is your research hypothesis?
  5. Define your methodology - How are you going to answer your question?  What do you need to build/construct to test your idea?  How are you going to test the idea?  What are the roles and responsibilities for each team member?
  6. How does idea this relate to prior work? Position your idea in relation to at least one paper that wasn’t assigned in class. Describe how you intend to conduct your continuing literature search. 
  7. If successful, what will be your research contributions?
  8. Define your methodology - How are you going to answer your question?  What tools do you need to do you need to build/construct to test your idea?  What data do you need? How are you going to test the idea?  What are the roles and responsibilities for each team member? 
  9. Schedule/Calendar – break your project into sub-deadlines – provide sub-deadline goals for 2x week for 5 weeks with the culmination of your work your completed research project. You will need to reverse engineer knowledgeably and effectively.
  10. Define for us how you plan to test your big idea. For example, what would be a potential user study?  Do you expect to find a Qualitative or Quantitative result?
  11. What are your expected outcomes? Best case? Worst? Does your schedule and calendar support successfully reaching the outcomes? What are your tangible results and deliverables?

Part 2
Finally, here’s your Final Turn-In checklist for the materials we expect for the final turn-in on March 9th. Project presentation will be held on Friday March 9th at 1:00 pm (TENTATIVE).

Final Turn-in (Please look at the SIGGRAPH format at this website: and use this example to format your own papers. You do not need to include CR Categories or keywords.

Note: You will be expected to do a short presentation covering your project outcome and your approach to your process.

Turn in the following into Collect-It on Catalyst: