Work continues to move ahead steadily. Some adjustments have been made to our overall product to reign-in some overly ambitious plans. We are now focusing on 4 levels each representing a core aspect of social cues. The new strategy is to have each level progress in three stages of increasing difficulty. Each stage awards the user a trophy/medal with the final award unlocking the next level. Since our concepts are also progressive in their ordering (physical cues, facial expressions, conversation skills all culminating in job interview skills) this will make a smooth and effective transition pedagogically speaking.
Our internal lab use case documents will be complete on Monday and the programming, content creation and testing teams will begin building post haste. We suspect that these documents will avoid missteps in when developing and serve as a blueprint for not only construction but testing as well.
What follows are the group breakdowns for the past week. Please refer to Figure 1 below for the project timeline progress chart.
A1
- Begun preliminary planning for level
- Familiarization presentation completed
- Use-case docs started (as well as functionality report)
A2
- Completed the familiarization presentation on Thursday
- We have planned to merge each lab table group into larger groups to create fewer portions of the game/project
- The decision was based on the newly acquired information from the Mustard Seed speakers
- Theme was decided to remain as a job hunter
- Paul has created the function which awards trophies for the completion of a level
A3
- Started to conceptualize our video game component
- Completed the familiarization presentation component of the course
- Had a meeting to practice for our presentation
- Kept up with effective group communication, and distribution of work
A4
- Consulted various departments on facial expressions (psychology department)
- Consulted career services for expected questions during interview practise
- Presented our familiarization presentation
- Finalized concept of the game in which the theme is target practice
A5
- The general idea and concept for the actual workings of the game have been determined. It will revolve around a target practice shooting game to hit the correct icons/pictures associated with the correct choice in filling in part of a conversation sentence or similar
- The familiarization presentations were completed successfully, and a better understanding of the direction of the lab as a whole has been determined
- Work has begun on the game specifics and game phrases to be used
- Multiple meetings have been set up to ensure the use case documents and Design Proposal Report are completed on schedule
A6
- Research background information for the Familiarization Presentation
- Edited and compiled the familiarization presentation
- Spoke to Dr. Barbara Schneider and Chaseten Remillar about their study regarding the representation of homelessness in the news
- Spoke with Tim Barber, one of the writers on the blog
- Edited, compiled and completed the familiarization Presentation
- Divided up the work for our portion of the content making
A7
- Worked on familiarization presentation
- Ideas for the informal communication game were presented with a possible final idea
- Research was done for interview communications to put in the game as well as other communication components
Figure 1. Project Progress Chart
Finally, here is the list of next week's goals for each lab group:
A1
- Complete concept of level (use-case doc in combination with A2)
- Complete functionality document
- Begin game construction
A2
- Meeting Saturday to work on collaboration of ideas with group A1
- Work and finish our Functional requirements and design proposal report
- Collaborating the multiple teams content creation and starting to put together the entire game
- Lab committees will work on their specified group tasks
A3
- Start and complete our next report
- Divide up (as a lab) in to more manageable groups
- All lab members will do their own part in their own group, with respect to the game
- As our original group, we will be designing our game module, and we will we will pass our game design to the content creators and the programmers
A4
- Finish functionality report
- Design proposal
- Discuss a theme
- Concept creation for our level
A5
- The use-case design will be completed by Monday, and to this end, a meeting has been scheduled on the weekend and our team will meet for a few hours
- Work on the functional requirements and design proposal report which are due Thursday
- Meeting has been scheduled on Tuesday at 4pm, and we will discuss allocation of work packages in more detail so the team can be fully prepared by Thursday
A6
- Will be meeting with team members to discuss the division of work for Use Case Documents
- Will be meeting with team embers to discuss the division of work for Functionality Report
- Will compile, edit and finalize Use Case Documents to be submitted to PM on Monday
- Will compile, edit and finalize Functionality Report to be submitted to lab TA on Thursday
A7
- Start to work on the Functionality report
- Begin building components to be put in the game
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