Affordance project schedule for the last 8 weeks
Schedule
- week 6: develop project proposals
- week 7: present proposals thursday morning (*see below for what should be in the proposal)
- week 8: work on projects
- week 9: show 1st prototypes
- week 10: work on projects
- week 11: final prototypes
- week 12: refine prototypes, begin documentation
- week 13: final documentation & create presentation
- week 14: present projects & ideas to program
Project proposals for week 7 should consist of the following:
- A presentation that presents the ideas
- A post on this blog of relevant material – put in your project category
- Visuals to give an idea of the potential forms and designs of the projects
- Rough scenario(s) and/or use patters
- The kinds of demos you propose, e.g. video, scripted/wizard of oz, working prototype
- Description of what equipment, platforms, software you will likely need
- oracle, 32″ touch screen, touch tablet, projection, iPod Touch, etc.
- wireless sensors, make controller, etc.
- phil’s help with XXX kind of programming
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week 1
+ get space organized – each student will have a desk in the NET Lab, but keep in mind that as the project moves forward, we may re-arrange everything to make space for our experiments. you’ll also have a regular desk out in the studio area.
+ RAs will present their individual research interests
+ Review what an affordance is, and what a taxonomy is
http://tihane.wordpress.com/2006/12/19/revisiting-the-concept-of-affordances-in-the-light-of-activity-theory/
+ Review prior research
http://www.merl.com/projects/dspace/
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1023819&dl=GUIDE&coll=GUIDE&CFID=33888493&CFTOKEN=67431248
+ Define our methodology
+ Initial brainstorming
week 2
+ Build out Blog/Wiki
+ Test run of 3 affordance things to explore how we’ll approach the problem
+ Define our approach to taxonomy
+ Brainstorm and refine list of affordance things we’ll look at
week 3
+ Begin taxonomy analysis with sub-sets of things to analyze assigned to individuals
week 4
+ Brainstorm about affordance experiments to run in parallel with taxonomy work
+ Define target activities
week 5
+ Continue work
week 6
+ Bring in designers to discuss affordance and design
+ Visit designers’ studios to observe them in action
week 7, 8, 9, 10
+ continue work
week 11,12
+ wind-down research and begin documentation
week 13
+ complete project
week 14
+ present project