Assignment 14: Final Project and Final Paper

Team assignment

Teams must hand in a fully functioning prototype of a personal health interface system using an advanced interface technology and a 6-page paper (SIGCHI format) (excluding references) that explains and justifies the technology and the problem(s) it solves in light of the course material.

The prototype must be sufficiently robust for deployment in a small pilot study to commence the following semester. Teams must hand in not only the functional software/system, but also detailed documentation that would allow non-technical health students to use the technology without assistance from the development team. Achieving the required robustness and simplicity to do this (while still demonstrating innovation in design and technology) will be one of the major challenges for teams. Teams will present their final system, with either a live or video demonstration (6 minutes), at the final class, when PHI students and faculty not involved in the class will be invited to attend. These presentations should describe the health needs met by the proposed technology, why the proposed technology is innovative relative to existing research systems in personal health interfaces, how the technology works, how the technology has been tested, and what the team learned during the development process. Teams should use this template for the presentation (integrating a six minute demo or presenting the demo at the end), and teams will be expected to have practiced the presentation in advance. Teams will also turn in a link to their Bitbucket wiki page, which will provide an organized introduction to anyone interested in learning what's been done to date, trying the prototype, and starting to contribute in the future. The wiki will also include a link to the scientific paper, which is expected to make a compelling argument for the technology in a well organized and well-proofed way, reflecting many of the ideas discussed in the course readings.

Finally, each team member must provide a description of how they contributed to the team project, and a description of how each of the other members of the team contributed. This description must be prepared without help from team members.

Hand in:

Teams will hand in the link to their Bitbucket team websites, which will include well organized materials such as the team presentations, the team paper, instructions on running the technology, and any other information needed to understand the project or use the technology. All the code needed to run the technology and instructions on how to do so should also be on the Bitbucket site. Use the wiki (or links to Google Docs from the wiki) for any additional info.

Your team will make the presentation (with demo) in the last class.

The team will be evaluated, in part, based on whether it is possible for a naive person to not only understand what the technology does, but also to get the prototype running solely from the materials linked from Bitbucket. This is of importance because the technology will hopefully be used by another team next semester.

Email your slides as PPT named PHIDD-Team[TeamNumber].FinalPresentation.ppt to ...@neu.edu by the deadline so there is time to compile them before class. Each team member should individually email a document describing their contributions and teammates contributions named PHIDD-Team[TeamNumber].[Lastname].Contributions.pdf.