Admin: Meeting 13 and Beyond

Our meeting structure has become untenable due to the deadlines we've all got scattered around our last week.

Fortunately we have always scheduled our meetings for times when we are usually around University anyway, so we should still attempt to meet up at least once more before the deadline on Friday 30th March.

Now that the responses for the questionnaire have all be done (Ash's response is not available if someone could edit the post and shove it on, that would be great), so Mark can now analyse the results.

Evaluations will all be up shortly too (mine will be going up after this post).

This now leaves the last week to do the Conclusions (Russell should mention more on that today). I would also like to spend the time fixing areas of the blog that are weaker than others, so if you see somewhere that could be bolstered, try and get it done ASAP.

Have a good final week of term, don't burn yourselves out and lets finish this blog off in style!

Admin: Meeting 13

The thirteenth meeting is scheduled for Monday 18th March from 4-5pm before HCI.

In this meeting we shall discuss the conclusions for our word scanning device some more, as it wasn't really discussed in the last meeting due to 2 team mates not being available.

It will probably be more convenient to talk about the conclusions in this meeting as the evaluations should be done before hand as well as the new model of the word scanning device.

Admin: Meeting 12 Summary

Attendants:

Elliot Hyde
Mark Mitchell
John Saunt

Apologies:
Ashley Harris - had to attend another meeting.
Adele Tyler - had a bad migraine.


In today's meeting we discussed what had to be done next for the word scanning device. We talked about evaluation types more which will be posted up for the new redesign of the word scanner in the near future. Another plasticine model is also planned for the new redesign which will posted up at a later date.

Once the above has been done we can then work on towards writing up our conclusions for the project. As we were missing a few members of the team today we didn't spend much time on this topic, as it will probably be best to wait for us all to be here.

Admin: Meeting 12

The twelfth meeting is scheduled for Thursday 15th March from 3-4pm (just before C++).

In this meeting we will continue discussing the evaluations and responses of our personas towards the re-design.

Furthermore, with the end of term fast approaching, we will start looking at areas we need to cover in our individual conclusions, so that we can start writing them now, instead of leaving them till the last week.

This meeting will serve as a good reflection meeting where we can discuss areas that we may not have documented fully enough on the blog etc.

We will need to start considering more closely when we will be having our meetings at this meeting, due to project demonstrations looming.

Admin: Meeting 11 Summary

Attendants:

Ashley Harris
Elliot Hyde
Mark Mitchell
John Saunt
Adele Tyler

At this meeting we took a moment to reflect on our re-design and what lies ahead. We decided that we would re-test the device on our personas using the same questionnaire, with some additional questions.

We will then evaluate the device again, just as we did before.

With work mounting in other areas, we will attempt to get the evaluations done by next Monday, and then finish off the rest of the work in the last two weeks.

Admin: Meeting 11

The eleventh meeting is schedule for Monday 12th March (just before HCI2).

The exact length of the meeting still needs to be decided, but if no one has requested that the meeting be made 2 hours long (with the group agreeing to it) then it will be the standard 1 hour.

In this meeting we need to consider re-evaluating our new design and look at areas of our design that we have not posted about previously.

One thing we have to do is document our design lessons, things we learned during the design of the first prototype, that we can apply to the second. I would also suggest doing a second post of the same nature after the re-design too.

Finally we have to write the conclusion.

We're on the home straight now, and I understand the amount of work we all have, but lets spread the work and go out with a bang!

Admin: Meeting 10 Summary

Attendants:

Elliot Hyde
John Saunt
Adele Tyler

Apologies:
Ashley Harris - Could not find the meeting location.
Mark Mitchell - Apparently was attending at a WHAM appreciation society.

In today's meeting we discussed our word scanner design more and redesigned our prototype based on our evaluations of the original prototype, persona responses and additional ideas.

Now that a new prototype has been developed it can be reevaluated to see if it more suitable at fitting a users requirements.

The pictures from the meeting will be posted later on the blog.

Admin: Meeting Rooms

Just to tackle Ash's issue of finding out where we are for each meeting.

Firstly, we're not capable of booking a meeting room, we have to check the booking system before we go to the room, and even then there could be someone in there. We were heading to room 245 (the one we went in before for 2 hours) but there was someone in there who hadn't booked it.

Secondly, it's not always necessary to go to a meeting room. Today's meeting may not of critically required a room, but we were doing Whiteboard drawings etc and so thought it was best that we found one. However, we hung around in the Linux labs (Me, Adele and John) for 5 minutes before heading to the meeting rooms.

In the future, if we decide to go to the meeting rooms and you can't contact a member of the team, it's best to try every meeting room, they are as follows:

124, 217, 222, 225, and 245.

If you can get into university/labs slightly before the meeting, then you're guaranteed to see someone in the team heading to it.

I would like to stress that in the case today, no one is to blame. John will be posting the Meeting Summary shortly, so please catch up on what we accomplished.

Admin: Meeting 10

The eighth meeting is scheduled for Thursday 8th March from 3-4pm (just before C++).

In this meeting we will discuss the evaluations done by everyone and then redesign the prototype.

We should also discuss the time of the next meeting, especially as a 2 hour meeting may be a good idea to try and re-analyse/re-evaluate the redesign and to fill any gaps in our development processes depicted on our blog.

Admin: Meeting 9 Summary

Attendants:

Ashley Harris
Elliot Hyde
John Saunt
Adele Tyler

Apologies:
Mark Mitchell - Busy buying WHAM! tickets for him and Ashley.

In this meeting we breifly discussed the responses to the second questionnaire on the prototype and listed a few of the problem areas that were highlighted in the results. Mark will write the analysis of the questionnaires which will show these problem areas. This has led us to a group decision that the prototype needs to be redesigned to attempt to rectify the issues found in the responses.

We then discussed how we were going to evaluate the product and decided that we would attempt to do as many of the evaluation technics as possible.

Ashley will write up the Cooperative Evaluation, with input from the team to assist him.

Elliot will write up the Heuristic Evaluation.

John will write up the Cognitive Walkthrough.

Admin: Meeting 9

The ninth meeting is currently schedule for 12-1pm on Tuesday 6th March. The meeting was moved from the Monday to accommodate Adele's other commitments.

In this meeting we need to discuss the results of the questionnaires and intensify the testing of the word scanner device.

We will also need to decide the time of the next meeting.

Admin: Meeting 8 Summary

Attendants:

Ashley Harris
Elliot Hyde
Mark Mitchell
John Saunt

Apologies:
Adele Tyler - Those pesky foot problems again.

We have decided that the next meeting will be held on Tuesday, at a time suitable for Adele and the rest of the team.

The rest of the main design issues were figured out in the meeting. The main issue was how we were going to have the screen divided up to allow for text, we decided that the device would display a maximum of 3 lines of text at any one time. We also discussed the menu system. Our results will be posted as a photo by John later.

Finally we drafted a comprehensive questionnaire to use on the personas to get an idea of the success of this initial design, allowing us to then consider issues that may lead to a re-prototype.

For Monday, the group will draft out their answers to the questionnaire, which will be posted in the near future.

Admin: Supervisor Meeting 2 Summary

Supervisor:
Chris

Attendants:
Ashley Harris
Elliot Hyde
Mark Mitchell
John Saunt

Apologies:
Adele Tyler - Still has foot troubles.

In today's meeting we discussed our prototype for the word scanner and explained our intentions for such a device. Elliot brought along the plasticine mock up of the device to show the supervisor.

The supervisor seemed very impressed with our accomplishments so far. Chris made a point about our initial design for the device, in that the screen on the word scanner might be slightly to small and would need a clear interface for a screen around that size.

Further designs / improvements of the prototype should continue tomorrow in a 2 hour meeting. Chris suggests that we should move on to testing the prototype soon on our personas or on other children in the designed age range.

Admin: Supervisor Meeting 2

It's just came to my attention that we have a meeting tomorrow Wednesday 28th February at 1:15pm with Chris. I'll bring the model in tomorrow and he can see it, and we can talk more about it with him.

I'm guessing its in Computer Science 124, like the extra tutorials were last week. But, we should check at 1 if anyone is up there, because it could be 177 Physics West.

The meeting for Thursday is still scheduled for 2 hours.

Admin: Meeting 8

The eighth meeting is scheduled for Thursday 1st March for 2 hours from 2-4pm (just before C++).

In this meeting we will work out the last few issues with the device and then start testing it. To start testing it we will need to consider another questionnaire for our personas to answer, we should aim to get this done in this meeting.

We also need to discuss the time of the next meeting, as Adele cannot make the Monday meeting due to other commitments.

Admin: Meeting 7 Summary

Attendants:

Ashley Harris
Elliot Hyde
Mark Mitchell
John Saunt

Apologies:
Adele Tyler - Still has a damaged foot.

In today's meeting we started planning out the prototype of the word scanner. We used white boards and board markers to put all of our ideas on, covering all the aspects of the word scanner design we could think of.

We made some initial drawings of the prototype incorporating these features, which we hope to continue in the next meeting.

The pictures taken of our work will be available in a later post.

Admin: Meeting 7

The seventh meeting is scheduled for Monday 26th February at 4-5pm (just before HCI).

At this meeting we need to start developing the prototype for the word scanner. Could everyone start considering any details they think will be important during the design of the word scanner and note them down for the meeting.

We will also discuss the time of our next meeting, I will attempt to contact Russell to see if he will schedule us for another supervisor meeting on Wednesday, but as far as we know, one is not schedule for us at the moment.

Admin: Meeting 6 Summary

Attendants:

Ashley Harris
Elliot Hyde
Mark Mitchell
John Saunt

Apologies:
Adele Tyler - Damaged her foot and could not make it into university.

In today’s meeting we discussed responses that our personas would have to the questionnaires/interviews for both the word scanner and the sports training tool final ideas.

From these responses, the use cases and all the research that has been conducted on the 2 proposals, we have decided to drop the sports training tool and develop the concept of the word scanner. Now a final project idea has been chosen, further research and plans can be focused towards the word scanner and development of prototypes can now begin.

Admin: Supervisor Meeting 1 Summary

Supervisor: Mike

Attendants:
Ashley Harris
Elliot Hyde
John Saunt
Adele Tyler

Apologies:
Mark Mitchell - feeling too ill to attend university.

During the meeting we discussed use cases with Mike, however we are still unsure about the difference between use cases and use scenarios; we intend to carry out research in this area shortly.

Mike raised a good point about our word scanner device, he said that the dictionary would have to be tailored for children because standard adult dictionaries are hard for them to understand. We need to ensure the word definitions do not include hard to understand words.

Mike also suggested we should eliminate one of our 2 main ideas as soon as possible so we can focus all our efforts on developing the final idea, we will do this during tomorrows meeting.

Admin: Supervisor Meeting 1

Our first meeting is scheduled for Wednesday 21st February at 12:15 with Mike. I'm guessing the room will be the same as the one on the timetable.

I suggest scouting the 117 Physics West room near 12pm to check if it is the room we are in. If anyone has any concrete information on where the room actually is, I'll try to make adjustments to this post ASAP.

There will also be additional supervisory sessions in Computer Science 124 at 1pm, I suggest we turn up for this session too so that we've met with a supervisor twice (like we should have done by now).