At this point, our hope is that by the end of Week 10 we’ll have a paper prototype of an application together. Since no two participants we’ve talked to so far have used the same combination of technology platforms, we already have been able to identify the importance of making our application cross-platform, and hope to address with our prototype what the display will look like on phones, tablets, and computers.
A draft of my professional website can be found here.
Because our goal is to submit our paper to the 2019 CHI Student Design Competition in Glasgow, our emphasis should be on our actual prototype design, although we will still give an overview of the major patterns we found through our interviews that informed specific design choices. The submission deadline for papers is January 7th, 2019 at 3 PM Eastern time, and decisions come out by January 24th, 2019. Papers for this competition are required to follow the Extended Abstract Format, and there is a strict page limit of 6 pages, including references. This means that between the end of this program and our submission in January, our main focus will be on getting feedback on our design and cutting down our REU paper to just the essentials and reformatting it and tweaking our poster to match. However, the submission requirements also call for a 5-minute video, which will give us an opportunity to show off our design in more detail.
We added our Reviewer-Response Table to our existing stack of spreadsheets, found here. Overall, the reviews were very constructive and helpful, although addressing a couple of them would require information that we don’t have quite yet.
Our meetings with Patrick and Aehong have continued to go well. This week, Aehong, Gustavo, and I have really begun diving into our data analysis. We spent a significant amount of time together dissecting the first 3 interview transcripts and generating a pretty comprehensive list of potential codes. On Friday, our plan is to meet again to try to reorganize and condense that information, combining aspects that overlap too much in order to make a more understandable list of themes. Right now, all of that information is stored on Box.