Term Project

Introduction

This semester, you will undertake a group project (up to 4 people per team) to:

  1. identify a theme-relevant, computing-related task / problem;

  2. evaluate the task / problem;

  3. develop interface design alternatives for the task / problem;

  4. implement a prototype of your design; and

  5. evaluate your design.

This is user-centered or interaction design! And the goal of this class is to provide practical and valuable experience with the tasks, research, and experimentation that interface designers do every day.

Theme: Face-to-Face Instruction

This semester, the term project theme is “face-to-face instruction” in computing education at institutes of higher learning. While the face-to-face instructional format supports multiple pedagogical approaches, it’s generally described as fully synchronous, in-person instruction that is delivered in an assigned classroom for all students. This theme encompasses computer-related user experiences and user interfaces that are directly or indirectly involved with face-to-face instruction.

By design, this theme is a large yet fruitful area to explore. All project proposals are subject to instructor approval. A critical aspect of selecting a problem is that it must impact some group of “real-life” people external to your group members – i.e., members of your group may be in included in the population of interest, but they should never be included in any study samples related to your group’s project research. These people are potential “clients” whom you must communicate with and learn from (in a structured way).

PR:1

Duarte L. Sousa, Pedro Campos, and Sónia Matos. The Use of Interactive Technologies for Education in Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Contexts: Design Implications. In CHItaly 2021: 14th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter, CHItaly '21. New York, NY, USA, 2021. Association for Computing Machinery. doi:10.1145/3464385.3464737.

Grading

Each milestone will contains information about how it will be graded. All milestones may not be weighted equally.

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