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Project 6: Demo

Due Date
  • Deadline: Tuesday, May 6, 1:00pm

Overview​

Learning Goals​

By the end of this assignment, you'll have practiced how to communicate to a large audience and how to manage your time to give an impactful presentation on a system that you spent several weeks building.

Requirements​

By the deadline, you should have:

  • Analyzed your findings — Outlined and practiced your presentation — Uploaded your final presentation slides to your Google Drive folder

Submission​

  • By the deadline, your Google Drive folder should contain a copy of your presentation. You do not have to use Google Slides, but make sure your presentation is uploaded to your Drive folder.

Analyze Your Findings​

Now that you've surveyed 10 users and collected in-depth qualitative feedback from two users, you'll need to analyze your findings. For your quantitative data analysis, generate statistics based on survey data, e.g., the average and range of a specific rating, and generate bar graphs for questions where relevant. For your qualitative data, identify some commonalities in user feedback. Don't just focus on the positives (or negatives) that users mentioned, try to identify both types of feedback.

Outline and Practice​

A good presentation is one that you've practiced multiple times. A great presentation is one that has been outlined: you've mapped out what topics to speak on and for how long. Make sure to construct a clear narrative to tell the audience, identifying what message you want to convey, and provide an impactful conclusion.

Presentation​

Prepare a 15 minute presentation, reserving at least 5 minutes for your system demo. Every team member must present, but you can choose how to divide up time.

Your presentation should contain:

  • A brief overview of the problem motivating your system and your competitors.
  • A brief overview of the main features of your system that addresses the problem.
  • A discussion of the technical components of your system.
  • A live demo of your system (5 minutes).
  • An overview of your findings from the surveys and interviews. You should include numbers and/or graphs, as well as quotes from any open-ended questions and from your interiviews.
  • A discussion of the succesful elements of your system as well as limitations or areas for improvement. — A meta-discussion of what you learned by working on the project.
  • An attempt to introduce humor to keep the audience engaged :).

Your presentation should also reference academic literature, where relevant, and these references should be listed on your last slide (after your concluding slide). You might reference research papers we've discussed in class or that you've found yourself. The goal in referencing research could be to: (a) motivate your system, (b) as inspiration for certain features of your system, (c) to contextualize your findings, and/or (d) as avenues for future work. Aim to reference at least three relevant research articles.

Rubric​

CategoryNeeds Improvement (1)Good (2)Excellent (3)
Clarity and OrganizationPresentation was confusing and/or lacked organization.Presentation was somewhat confusing and/or lacked organization.Presentation was clear and well-organized.
Problem and MotivationProject was not clearly motivated by a real-world problem and/or did not incorporate scholarly research at all.Project was motivated by a real-world problem but it was unclear how this project would help. May have cited scholarly research but did not make a clear connection.Project was clearly motivated by a real-world problem and the project was directly linked to the problem. Incorporated scholarly research to describe the problem or propose a solution.
FindingsFindings from the deployment were not communicated clearly or appeared to be overly biased.Findings from the deployment were communicated somewhat well but may have been somewhat biased.Findings from the deployment were communicated clearly and bias was minimized.
Next StepsPresentation did not identify next steps for the project or provided an inaccurate assessment of progress thus far.Presentation identified some next steps for the project and provided a somewhat accurate assessment of progress thus far.Presentation clearly identified next steps for the project and provided an accurate assessment of progress thus far.
TimingPresentation/demo was severely over or under the time limit.Presentation/demo was within 1 minute of the time limit.Presentation/demo was within 30 seconds of the the time limit.
Q&ACould not adequately answer class' questions and/or did not manage Q&A well.Answered some of class' questions well and managed Q&A well.Answered most of class' questions well and managed Q&A well.