(Due: Mar 20-22)
For team project - I
must have an individual grade component as well as a team
product component
Keep a design journal of your activities. The journal will document
(1) cogent issues encountered as you progress through each
component of the team project
(2) specific instances of what you have learned
(3) elements of enthusiasm or distaste for working on a team and
in turn how it could be improved. I will evaluate the journal qualitatively looking
for these elements to be preeminent. The design journal will be your own guide
to working through the project and will provide you with notes, rationale,
issues, and process to be used as one basis for groupwork.
(4) how well the final product and presentation go – this means
the extent to which the idea has been explored with real world users and elaboration
of the constraints of a selected information domain as well as how a team shows
integration of work effort as evident during final presentation, and is also
very dependent upon the substance of the task analysis and concept
demonstration (eg. how much multimedia and information scitech was used. I value creativity so jump
outside the blackbox.
(5) Your project presentation will be 20 mins per group = 3 groups
per class
To provide you and
your team members with some guidance on the project and to give further
information on what to expect I will be looking for in evaluating the project.
The project has 2
components: 1) an individual element 2) and a team element. Please refer to the
syllabus, which already outlines the responsibilities for individuals and
teams. The project is heavily grounded in problem finding - problem
representation and analysis, and implementing problem solving solutions. The
intent is not just to find a problem but to understand the constraint space of
a problem, create useful information science / information technology
solutions, and then insure the solutions have a high degree of usability.
Please refer to the 3 U's, understanding, usefulness
and usability, which will be further discussed in class. In this
project the team must consider the 3U's as well in order to implement a viable
concept demonstration. You will be assessed in terms of how well you illustrate
each of these areas in your individual journal and how well the team addresses
these problems in the presentation.
After you are
assigned to a team, you must begin the team process by deciding on a problem
that is feasible, doable in terms of the time you have, and amenable in terms
of allowing information systems as a solution point. You might start your team
off by discussing ideas that members have about problems that could be
addressed with the use of some of the areas of technology presented in the
readings or discussed in class. If you can't immediately propose a problem
domain that other members agree with then you may need to do some exploration. I
may also mention possibilities in class of project domains that would be interesting
to pursue (e.g., I have mentioned the idea of how would go about providing a
computer-supported distance learning implementation for the Jasper problem
solving video. I want your problem domains to be as real as practical and for
you to actually deal with real world context and users. This may mean that you
are close to a problem area (personal experience) and thus can use experience
to understand it; or alternative the problem domain may be one that others in your
group share (e.g., problems associated with college life - registration,
libraries, dorm-life, Hub experiences). Alternatively, I would encourage you to
do some interviews of experts in a given area and discover some of their problems
and select one for experimentation. Remember the goal is not to jump into an
immediate solution and program up a concept demonstation - that almost always
results in failure/error associated with not addressing the 3 U's. Some
interview, do a work analysis, create concept maps and storyboards, before
locking on to a quick solution. I will look for these kind of things as a basis
for seeing the design rationale for your solution. If you are hung up finding a
problem I could refer you to some sources from small business projects to give
you seed thoughts to help as well. But there are a variety of areas to think
about: medicine, business, military, educational, criminal, and so on. BE
CREATIVE! You might want to think about a given expert and their problems, e.g.,
fire fighters, fighter pilots, dentists, radio announcers, audiologists, race
car drivers, ship captains, pre-school teachers, stock brokers, and so on to
begin thinking about new areas of application of information systems to
problems experienced. These are just ideas to get you jump started.
Grading (20 pts)
|
Team Participation |
5 points |
|
Team Presentation |
10 points (including
of quality of analysis conducted) |
|
Design Journal |
5 points |
Total
|
20 points |
The grade for the
group will be based on the following:
What will be
the critical links for team's success?
***Warning !
Procrastination can be hazardous to your grade.