Project proposal
For the next step towards working on your project, you will need to come up with a complete and detailed project proposal.
Due
This part of the project is due on Tuesday, 2/27, at 23:59.
Collaboration
This assignment should be completed together with your project partner.
Assignment
Your goal is to solidify and write down a concrete plan for your project. To that end, please address the following questions in detail (each should be in a separate section; most will be at least a few paragraphs):
- What is the motivation for your work? What real-world problem are you trying to address?
- What do we already know about this problem from existing research? How will you use the findings of the existing research in your own project?
- Don’t just repeat what you put in your literature review, really focus on answering these questions
- What are your research questions? What are you hoping to learn by the end of your research?
- (For development projects)
What are your development goals? Describe the user story for your completed project.
- (For development projects)
- (For research projects)
What is your plan for carrying out you research?- What methods will you use?
- Why are they the most appropriate way of addressing your research question?
- What data will you collect?
- How will you analyze it?
- What methods will you use?
- (For development projects)
Please provide the technical specifications for your project.- Also describe how you will evaluate the usability of your finished product. This should probably include at least a small-scale user study.
- Come up with an estimated project timeline: the major milestones and the dates by which you plan to have them completed
- Risks and mitigation plan: what are some things that might not go as you expect them to? (For example, a hypothesis you are testing might turn out to be false.) How will you make sure you still have something useful/usable at the end of the project?
What to turn in
Please submit your write-up as a PDF to Canvas.
Please also put your proposal in a properly formatted Google Doc (not a PDF, but an actual Word-style doc) that is editable by members of the team and me. Include a link to the Google Doc at the top of the PDF you submit.
Late policy
- Assignments submitted up to 24 hours late receive a deduction of one letter grade (10 percentage points).
- Assignments submitted more than 24 hours late receive no credit.
- While excessively late submissions will receive no credit, you must submit a project proposal, and it must be approved, for you to pass the class.