Yellow Lab D
March 7 - 12, 2010
Tasks accomplished this week:
- Formulated structure of Mustard Seed Program:
- There are 4 teams who will focus on a hands-on aspect of the design.
- There are 3 teams who will focus on an interactive computer game aspect of the design.
- Teams will work in groups of 2 or 3 teams to design a computer game and an activity that are to be integrated together and collectively develop and apply the skills of either logic, memory, or focus.
- Overall theme of the program was chosen to be "Adventure".
- Team contracts were completed on schedule.
- Entire lab contract was completed on schedule.
- Research into familiarization presentation has begun. Each time was assigned a area of focus for the user needs to reduce redundancies between presentations.
- Representative of the homeless community has been approached to come into the lab and speak about the issues facing the homeless of Calgary and answer questions from teams. Authorization has been confirmed by Ningxu Cai and Doug Sephton. An invitation was sent out to Tim (the representative) and is pending reply.
- Persistent scoring system for entire program has begun development.
- Persistent character throughout all designs in program has begun development.
- Teams working in common areas have approached each other to start designing interfaces. Negotiation has begun to wrinkle out any inconsistencies and/or redundancies in the interfaces. More to come of this later.
Project Monitoring and Control
Figure 1: Gantt Chart monitors the progress of the group according to the events which were scheduled this week. This Gantt Chart is most copied from the lab contract, but some things are adjusted and grouped. For example, the original lab contract had three bars earmarked for "project introduction", "sensitivity workshop", and "research workshop". These three categories have been grouped into the new category "Lab Workshops".
The Gantt Chart shows each specific task as a blue bar, and milestones as diamonds. The black bar going through each task represents the degree to which the tasks have been finished. In this case, the lab contract, workshop, and concept/theme categories are explicitly marked as done (since the workshops are completed, the theme was defined, and the lab contract was submitted).
Two tasks are not marked as done: team coordination and research. Team coordination is defined as communication between groups working on the same area of focus (ie. two groups working on logic must coordinate their efforts). Team coordination encompasses two main regions of research: the developing analysis of the user needs that the design specification must satisfy, and the development of interfaces between components of the lab's prototype.
Since most teams are still in the drafting stage of their design proposals, team coordination has been worked on but has not yet been fully realized. In our schedule, team coordination and research phases are scheduled for completion next week. We have done considerable negotiations to develop the grounds for the design proposal, and individual teams have undertaken considerable research measures to meet the impending deadline next week.
To be accomplished next week:
- Completion and rehearsal of familiarization presentations as early as possible.
- More development of interfaces between teams working in similar areas.
- Prototype design and construction to begin on Wednesday Mar 17.
- Design Proposal Report to be done by Mar 22.
- Finalize scoring system.
- Finalize character design.
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