Presentations and online pages for the last week
Presentations should be summaries of useful experiences from the course projects. The presentations can be presented live (by synchronously present team members) or by posting the presentation as a video or set of online pages. Live presentations should take about 10-15 minutes. Online presentations are also possible but should be arranged in advance. Online presentations should be submitted to the D2L discussion board on Project Presentations and Discussion.
The goal of the presentation is to provide other students with useful, generalizeable lessons from your experience. Findings and discussions could be useful for the final report.
The presentation is not formally graded, but contribution to the presentation and discussion can help your class participation score.
Contents
You may include anything you like in your presentation that is related to your projects. I recommend that you consider the following components (but only select a few at most!):
- An important, perhaps surprising, finding obtained from one of your studies (5 minutes or 1 screen).
- How your findings differ from another group's findings on the same application.
- Display and discussion of your format for presenting findings or designs.
- A useful lesson learned from designing or conducting any of the methods (e.g. usability test, comparison study, post-test questionnaire) (5 minutes or 1 screen). It might be one of the following types:
- What you would do differently if you were to conduct this method in the future.
- What kind of information this method produced.
- What was particularly difficult about this method.
- Situations when this method would not be useful.
- How much time this method took.
Only select a small subset of these topics! Just choose those that you think would be of most value to the class.
Format
There is no specific format. In-class presentations may be done as a group or one individual may represent the whole team. Presentation materials may be used (e.g. powerpoint slides, figures) but are not required. Presentations may also be supplemented with slides or videos posted to the D2L discussion board.
While all team members should contribute to the content of the presentation, only one or two members need to actually present. All present members are encouraged to answer questions and engage in discussion.