HCI 594

Spring 2014

Craig Miller

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Final Report and Reflective Statement

Due Friday June 13
Class presentation should be posted by Monday June 9

Class Presentation

The project presentation is an informal presentation that focusses on a particularly interesting or useful result from your project. You may want to draw upon the experience you presented in milestone 2. Also, the peer reviews should have some useful feedback. The format is up to you, it could be a short report (i.e. one page), a series of slides, or a video. It should take about 5 minutes for a person to view. I will set up a D2L Topic for posted class presentations. This way, others can respond. When you post, consider posting your presentation on the web (I can host it if needed) and simply providing a link.

Requirements for the Final Report

Submission for the final report is a final update of the project. It contains some items required in the milestones. should be a report that contains the following information:

  • A summary of the project's goals
  • A presentation of the major accomplishments including the methods that were applied (e.g. interviews, survey, card sort, wireframes, usability tests)
  • Major results or findings and how they were used
  • References to completed work that document your accomplishments

As with the milestones, the report has no required format. However, the report should be organized so that the required information can be easily found and assessed. Typically the main body of the report can be two to three pages, although it should be supplemented with additional materials.

Reflective Statement

The reflective statement is submitted at the same time as the final report. Each person should submit an individual reflective statement. That is, for team projects, each individual should submit their own statement. For individual projects, the final report and the reflective statement may be combined into one document.

The reflective statement is an opportunity to consider what worked well for your project and how you might apply the experience for future work. You are encouraged to draw upon your experience summary in the last milestone and the content in your presentation. Like the experience summary, you may want to consider any of the following items for your statement:

  • A surprising result from any of your methods
  • A challenge and how you addressed it
  • What you would do differently next time
  • Whether a method provided useful results and why

The statement does not need to be long. One page should be sufficient. It is better to explain one or two lessons in detail with supporting examples than to superficially present many lessons.

Submission

The design document should use a common presentation format, ideally PDF. Submit the file using the D2L online submission site.

Grading

The final report, reflective statement and class presentation are worth a total of 50 points. A rubric will be available with the D2L dropbox.