Project Planning

From CS260SP09

Project Overview

Please prepare an overview of your project in Powerpoint or some other digital form for presentation. Plan for a < 5 minute presentation today. Your slides should cover:

• Background on the problem you are addressing.

• What approach (method) you want to use.

• How the method connects with theme(s) from the course.

• What you expect to learn from the project.

• How will you define and assess its success?

Please use the "Project Groups" link on the left to create a new page for your project (individual or pair). Place a copy of your slides there before class today.

Team Critique

After the presentations, we will break into the usual small groups for critique. Group members will make suggestions on project themes to each other. Things to shoot for during this session:

• Suggestions of other approaches that you may know of that seem relevant.

• Synergies with other projects you know of.

• Ways to simplify/ generalize/ or otherwise refine the approach.

• Ways to help with evaluation.

Final Project Proposal

By Monday, February 23, you should post online in your project space a final project proposal of about 2 pages (Word doc or pdf). It should cover the five bullets from your presentation in enough detail to make the idea clear. Feel free to use sketches to convey the application context and usage scenarios.

Suggestions

To get started with ideas, take a look at the topics to be covered in the semester, and visit the project suggestions from when the course was taught in earlier years: | HCC Project Suggestions, updated 2000

Projects can be computer programs, designs for information appliances, user studies and analysis, or papers that combine ideas from another discipline with computer science.