June 28 Notes This is THE last class meeting before final presentations and prototypes. For the next two weeks, we will be prototyping. DAI505 Evaluation Sheet Our stuff can be to scale or to full size. She accepts APA or MLA, but you have to be consistent. One or the other, not both. Because this is 505, she's a little more lax about layout and page numbering and table of contents. She wants it bound. Nice and spiral bound. She wants a copy of the original survey. She wants us to put our PERT Chart and our Timeline in the appendix. Final Report: Method of Procedure. This is chapter 3, which needs to be the MOST robust. Details how we came to arrive at teh final solution. Chap. 2: Review of the literature: Observing, questioning, sending out surveys, interviewing people, internet stuff Appendix: You must have the resumes. If we don't have a resume, we must have their business card. We must LIST THEIR POSITION AND EXPLAIN WHY THEY WERE CHOSEN. The report SHOULD be comprehensive, but not fluff. We do NOT include our Personas. Appendix C: You can have as many appendices as you need. Bibliography: Minimum of 18 citations. We're gonna turn in two reports. One will be marked up in pencil, the other will be kept. ------ She wants our journals turned in with the presentations on the day the presentations start. We can print it at home on our inkjet printers! ---- Parts of a Formal Report. Letter of transmittal: You only need one. It's slipped inside the front cover and is not a part of the report. MANY STUDENTS FORGET THIS. Some students combine the cover page and title page in one. Letter of transmittal should be a couple of paragraphs summarizing what's in her hands. June 23rd or July 14 was when she requested this, for reference. --- Abstract: Cna't be written until report is done. It's a summary of the main report. Three thing students forget. LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. DESCRIPTORS. - Words that guided our research. (NOT our definitions of turns. we will probably do both, but it must be in Chapter 1 too) ABSTRACT. Can be on same page as descriptors, or not. ---- Parameters of the problem Narrows down the study. Sometimes called "Scope and limitations". What limits were placed on the PROBLEM? Please list sub problems. Please put a sub-paragraph about each sub-problem. ---- Hypothesis: She still wants language "It was hypothesized that:" Choose a research oriented hypothesis or statistically oriented. We'll probably have 2 or 3 hypotheses. ---- Research procedure: "Plan of Attack" is our Timeline and PERT Charts ---- Body - Subheads. Useful for organizing. Doing stuff in Word them dumping it into InDesign brings up those squiggly red lines for us. OUr grammar is going on for future students to see and our name is not deleted. --- Bibliography List ALL sources we used. 18 MINIMUM. Remember to list "Sources Referenced, but not Cited"/"Sources Consulted, but not Cited" --- Look at examples provided. Bring in something and add some style to the cover page, but you have ot have the required information. "Partial Fulfillment" is important. ---- PRESENTATION Reintroduce problem-purpose. Show that the research has driven the solution. NO PERSONAS See if tehre are any safety regulatory complaince standards We need to stick to the time. The midterms took so long because we needed feedback. We should be dressed up. 20 minutes to the time we are finished. She does keep time on those. ---- "Solution in action" could be a cool part of the presentation. "Questions/Concerns" slide to prompt people to task? This was in the Liver one. --- Presentation from the bench guy Assumptions - Design Drivers Research Questions - More design drivers. Rationale - Why this is being done. Design Objectives - List of things the design is trying to accomplish. Design INspirations - The Market st bench guy had pictures of chairs. The table will be empty for the final presentation. We can put our stuff on it. Design Solution - Bullet point list of features. ---- -------------- When is the Final written Research Report due? "How many pages" When are prototypes due? I might have to get mine mailed, but I could produce a lesser quality home-printed one. What is expected of a prototype? When do we get our sketchbooks back? If it doesn't arrive in time, consider prototyping on foam core or illustration board. Quiz 6 due by Tuesday I'm signed up for 5:30 on Wednesday ------ Report OUtline Draft ( on iLearn) It's our final report, but she wants some creativity, since we're designers. She would indent the subheadings in. THe introduction needs to be large. This is a great area to put in the history and context. MOst of our assumptions will go into Chapter 1. Chapter 1 is laid out VERY SPECIFICALLY in the handout. Follow it PERFECTLY. If we want to print, go with a nicer paper if we can. We don't need to use leaders on the table of context (the ............ thing) but the numbers HAVE to be flush right. Chapter 2: Review of Related Literature An introduction to information on researching for the report. Surveys would go in chapter 2 also. We may have more subheaders in chapter 2, even though Chapter 1 won't. Chapter 3: Method of Procedure or - NO. Come up with a catchy title! It's OUR chapter! Introduction! Every chapter starts with an introduction! A robust chapter. She wants our ideations, our sketches, how we GOT to our solutions. Jimyt@sfsu.edu gets you access to the "lab"(?) to build. Bibliography should be before the appendix "Bubble" library? What's this? Descriptors are NOT defined in the Descriptors part. They're just the key words used. They're defined in the Definition of Terms part. Chapter 1: Definition of Terms - Look at the words related to our survey that aren't common words. "Folio" or "Brochure", for example. We determine what the definition is (and give credit to sources.) ANY word that's not a common word. Make sure we cite EVERYTHING. Chapter 2: