CS 6724: Group Projects

You should think of your class project as a small research project, one that if written up appropriately might be presented at a professional conference. The project deliverables are of three sorts:
  1. Due by Friday, March 21: a project page, i.e., an HTML document describing who your group is, your project plans and your project status (just give me the URL). Some of you have already prepared a fairly complete summary of your plans, and can simply convert this into an HTML page; others still need to specify what it is you plan to do. I will create links to each of these pages in place of the brief descriptions you have sent me. (I hope that you will elaborate and refine these pages as your projects progress, but this is not required.)

  2. Due by Friday April 18: your project report. This should be written up in the style of a conference paper--title, authors, abstract, keywords, body, and references. Organize the paper body into the typical sections you would find in a conference paper, for example an introduction that sets up the problem, including any relevant related work (e.g., that we have talked about this semester, or that you find in the course of doing the project), a section describing your approach and rationale, a report of your findings (or your system if you design a system), and discussion or implications. Obviously there is no one right way to write up any project. I recommend that you use the examples of reports you've read this semester as models (e.g., the Chin et al. CHI97 paper, the LiveBoard paper). The paper length will clearly depend on the nature of the project, but I anticipate no less than 5-6 double-column ACM conference pages, and probably no more than 10-12.

    As an Appendix to this paper, include your collaboration report, summarizing how your group coordinated its activities, how if at all roles were assigned and carried out, and what technology if any was used to support your collaboration. The format of this is entirely open; I intend it as an opportunity to reflect on your own collaborative experiences more than as a research or writing project in and of itself.

  3. Starting April 21 and continuing April 28: short group presentations. We have eight projects and only two class meetings, so that means each group will have at most about 20 minutes. We will work out a more detailed schedule (and possibly special locations if groups want to demo their systems) as we get further along.

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