Report specifications

Objective

To demonstrate you can think and write coherently on a topic cognate (related in nature) to the content of the course. Please re-read the slides on report writing to help you in writing your report.

Specifications

• Title, Your name, Abstract etc, 1/2 page max
• Section on the objectives of Dingyun's paper / objectives of his research as you understand it from his paper.
• Either
  • Describe your experience in the experiment: for example, describe the control methods you used, and what order you did them in, did any seem more or less natural than the others? was the easiest to use the most natural? (if so why, if not why not?) and so on. 1/2 - 1 page.
    (Experiment involves 1/2 hr, and the use of various control techniques to control a pan tilt video camera while playing a single person table soccer game, sign up using streams)
• Or
  • Contrast another paper's results on a similar topic with with Dingyun's results. A similar topic could be: use of different techniques to control a game, or similar techniques to control something different. Try to find a paper online, but if you have trouble send me an email suggesting what kind of similarity or difference you have in mind and I will help to find a specific paper for you). 1/2 - 1 page.
• Section on the relationship between human computer interaction (HCI) and Web design. E.g. did you learn anything useful from the experiment in this regard? If so what? If not, please explain why HCI is too different from web design to be useful. (There is no right answer, the idea is to use your own thinking and brief reading on this topic to coherently write something.) A web document worth reading on this topic is here. 1/2 - 1 page
• If you add up the pages its 2 to 3.5 pages so one of the three later sections can be a bit longer if you use the full 4 pages. Most important: don't get stressed, its not too hard, we won't mark too hard. But do try and think and write clearly.

Length

Your document should normally be 2 to 4 pages in length, formatted mostly as 12 point Times font (or similar), with about 2 cm margins on A4 paper. All the 'normally', 'mostly', 'similar' and 'about' words are meant to indicate that you can chose differently if you have a reason to do so, but please try to stick to my length specification (e.g. whatever your reason a two page document with the words "Hello world" in 300 point font is not a valid report - to start with it doesn't include your name, doesn't have the right kinds of sections and so on). Please note you may create your document in any way you like including Word, Latex, Open Office etc etc, but the document in meant to be an old fashioned paper format document for printing. (But you can still use HTML if you want, but it should print to a pdf which should match my specifications.)

Submission

Please submit by placing a pdf file called "u1234567-report.pdf" into your public_html folder. If you used Xanga, then you can do the same still or send me an email with the pdf attached on the day the assignment is due.

Marking

The course assessment page says this is worth 20 marks. Please see the report assessment page. The structure of the report (e.g. such things as the right kinds of sections, referencing sources etc) will be worth 6, your reflections on the experiment (or similar) also 6, with the coherence of your writing worth 8.

Due date

11.59 pm on Tuesday 2nd JuneSunday 31st May