CS3041 - Human Factors in Computer Systems - D06

Project 3: Instructions

For project 3 you will be allocated randomly into small groups.

Groups will be announced in conjunction with the description of Project 3. Learn your group number! Decide on a name for your group (e.g., Pygmy Telephone & Telegraph).

Each group will work together to solve the problem, produce a single group report to hand in, and make a presentation to the class.

Quickly establish contact with the other members of the group, allocate roles/subtasks, arrange regular mtg times, and get started early.

You must submit a User & Task Analysis and a Rough Design on the intermediate due dates (see Schedule) during the time available for this project.

Every group will make a presentation to the class. This will allow you to compare your group's approach with a variety of other approaches. Hopefully it should also be fun. The presentations will be during the last two classes of the term (see Schedule).

Each group will have about 10 minutes to describe their work to the class.

The order of the presentations will be randomly selected each day at the start of that class. Everyone is required to attend all of the presentations.

Format of the presentation:

• It's up to you which group members make the presentation.
• The presentation will consist of:
  1. A very brief introduction of the group members.
  2. A few slides showing how the sentence is built (screen dumps, sketches, or storyboards).
     Sketches and story boards can be hand drawn.
  3. A slide showing the whole sentence.
• A computer is available for the presentation. Note that as group-to-group turnaround time must be very short, you'll need to load slides at the start of class.

Self Evaluation of Group:

Every group member will be asked to assess the degree of contribution (effort) of each member of the group. That will be taken into account when allocating a score for the project to each group member. For example, those who did little work will get a reduced project score. Anyone who did no (or close to no) work according to all the rest of the group members will get a very low score for the project -- thus reducing your course grade to a C or worse.