Assignment P9/P10 -- Final Prototype and Project Fair Presentation

Due date: Be at the Fair on December 6 (6 - 9pm in Packard). Post your writeup by 11:59pm, Friday, Dec. 8

To do

  1. Iterate: Do 1 more user test on your high-fidelity prototype. Revamp your high-fidelity prototype based on the feedback you get. If you get the user test before the staff feedback on the 1st and 2nd, you should be on track.
  2. Presentation: Prepare your 2-minute presentation and poster. (6 - 9 pm, Dec. 6 in Packard). Have at least one member arrive early (between 5 - 6pm) to work out any technical glitches.
  3. Writeup: What you changed from your high-fidelity prototype and post it on your website. No more than 750 words. (11:59 pm, Dec. 8)
  4. Program: Post your final version on the website that we can download and run. Don't forget instructions for making it run! (11:59 pm, Dec. 8)

Iterate

Do one more user test by getting someone to try out your high fidelity prototype. Based on their feedback, improve your prototype, by filling in holes. For example, what if someone makes an error while proceeding on one of your tasks? Does your interface support that?

Presentation

2 Minute Presentation: The presentations will be held in the Packard foyer, to your fellow classmates, the CS 147 staff, and industry guests.  The first half of the event will be the fast-forward presentation. You will have exactly 2 minutes to describe your system in brief: the problem you were trying to solve, and the innovative approach you took towards addressing it. After your presentation, (and you will be ushered off the stage at 2 minutes) you will have 1 minute for questions from the audience, while the next group gets ready to present. The idea is to give an "elevator pitch" that is engaging and captures the listener's interest so that they will want to seek you out at the project fair. It is highly recommended to have at least one member show up early (no earlier than 5pm) to test out your presentation media.

2 Minute Presentation Schedule:

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 12 13 14 15 17 18 19 20 21 22
Time 6:00 6:03 6:06 6:09 6:12 6:15 6:18 6:21 6:24 6:27 6:30 6:33 6:36 6:39 6:42 6:45 6:48 6:51 6:54 6:57

Posters and Project Fair: Prepare a poster that describes your system. You will need to bring this to Packard before the presentations begin. After the fast-forward presentations, your classmates, industry guests, and the CS 147 staff will be able to circulate and ask you about your extremely cool interface. Refreshments will be served. For your poster we recommend you use Powerpoint or a similar graphics program, and posterboard which you can get at any art store (University Art in downtown, for instance). Your poster should be designed to inform people who have seen little or nothing of your project -- as in other groups or the judges who have only seen your 2-minute presentation -- of the most interesting points about your project. Prizes will be awarded by the judges.

You must use an easel to display your posterboard (nothing is allowed against the walls in Packard). You can get both easels and posterboards from Nikki Salgado: "Students are welcome to come by my office (Gates 187) for their easels & poster boards Tuesday 12/05 or Wednesday 12/06. They can leave their Stanford ID with me at that time. I will give it back to them upon return of the easels."

Writeup

This is an opportunity to give us information about your project that you didn't have time to include in the presentation. Don't overload it (we won't read more than a couple of pages), but use it to point us to things on your website that are relevant to understanding your process, your users, and your results.