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Class Project: Public display in new Northern Virginia Research Center public areas
The Steger Design Competition is for proposals to showcase VT research in VTRC - Arlington. We have registered our intent to participate. First prize is $5,000. Information about the project (as of 2011.09.16): general, jury, floor plan, and display wall.
The project will be done in teams. For the first few phases (research), you will be assigned a group; for the design and implementation phases, you will self-organize into groups. The phases of work are:
- A: Client and Audience Research
The first step is to figure out the people involved in this project -- the client and the audience. Working groups of 4 or 5, each group will research a different aspect of the client and the audience.
Taken together, the reports give a good picture of the client and audience. Note there are few factual errors in them, so read the feedback. With the Content Research, they will provide guidance to the development of project proposals.
- B: Content Research
In this step, we ask you to find out what content is available for your project. The more, the better. Your investigations should take you into the nooks and crannies of the client and audience. Mostly that will be on-line, but clearly there is information in the physical environment, too, that you should include. Finding content is a bit of a scavenger hunt. It will probably start with information provided in the instructions to the Competition Entrants . REMEMBER: the content is what VT wants to show the audience, not what the audience seeks to know.
Taken together, the reports give a good picture of the content that is available. Note there are few factual errors in them, so read the feedback.
- Team Formation
It is time to form teams to develop concepts and prototypes. You choose, but there are a few restrictions:
Team size: Based on the Sorting Hat survey, most of you want 4 person teams; 4 will be the expected size of group. In total there should be 8 groups, therefore one group will have only 3.
Categories: I have categorized you into 4 groups with arbitrary names: North, South, East, & West. Each group should have one and only person from each category. Two groups will have no one from "West".
North |
East |
South |
West |
| Brady |
Chatterson |
Burke |
David |
| Hendon |
Edwards |
Chao |
Fernandez |
| Liversedge |
Hunter |
Jacobs |
Highman |
| Obenauer |
Jones |
Kania |
Schneier |
| Parton |
McIntyre |
Leung |
Vann |
| Talley |
Nein |
Marrs |
Zhang |
| Thayer |
Rotermund |
May |
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| Usher |
Ryburn |
Tate |
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Post on course wiki under Project Website / Team Formation.
Due: Tuesday 2011.10.04 @ 3:00 PM
I reserve the right to reconfigure teams and/or assign singletons.
A |
B |
C |
D |
E |
F |
G |
H |
Obenauer |
Usher |
Talley |
Hendon |
Liversedge |
Thayer |
Brady |
Parton |
Nein |
Hunter |
Edwards |
Rotermund |
McIntyre |
Ryburn |
Jones |
Chatterson |
Leung |
May |
Kania |
Tate |
Marrs |
Jacobs |
Burke |
Chao |
Schneier |
Zhang |
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David |
Fernandez |
Vann |
Highman |
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- C: Conceptual Design
Each of the self-organized teams is to come up with 5 to 7 concepts for an information system for VTRC-A open areas and accompanying website to monitor and maintain the public display. One will be selected to become the semester project. The concepts will first be informally discussed with professor Harrison, then presented in a dazzling presentation by one of the team members. The concept will be posted on the teams part of the wiki. Grades and short evaluations are here.
- D: Feedback and Response
Each of the teams is assigned another group to give design feedback to. This will be based on both the presentation and the report on the wiki.
GROUP |
REVIEWED BY |
A |
C |
B |
D |
C |
E |
D |
F |
E |
G |
F |
H |
G |
A |
H |
B |
Project Management
We will monitor the progress to completion of each group's project, comparing estimates of wrok done in the Delphi Planning practicum on 2011.10.25 with actual time expended. Spreadsheets of each groups' estimates are here: A, B, C, D, E, F, G & H. Project status reports are due noon 2011.11.03, 2011.11.17, and 2011.12.01 on the project wiki site.
- E: Design Review
The progress of project will be reported to the class and any final tweaks will be proposed. Each team does a crisp 6 minute presentation using the 2 presenters. Grades and short evaluations are here.
- F & G: Final Project Presentation, Demo, & Report
A demonstration of the project will be presented to the class. Each team does a crisp 6 minute presentation. Grades are here.
Copyright © 2011 Steve Harrison
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