The Final Week!

This week we have been working very hard on preparing our presentation. We participated in a group conference call on Sunday, December 9 to discuss our ideas and the work we've completed for the presentation. Edith has updated the task flow for the Voice Interaction. She has also created a PowerPoint presentation draft. Lisa is working on the prototype redesign and creating presentation examples. Karen has been working on presentation graphics. We will be meeting an hour before class tomorrow to practice and synchronize our presentation.

Lisa's list of tasks for herself:
- demo (Tues)
- slide draft (today)
- design document (tomorrow; includes Edith's workflow + bubbles,
grammar description, examples)
- handout (Wed)
- CD (Wed)

Conducted Participatory Design Session 2

We held our second Participatory Design session on Thursday, November 29. It went as well as the first session! The participants had fun testing the Coffee Sleuth prototype and the Google Mobile and Tell Me services. They gave us some valuable suggestions that we can incorporate into our prototype.

Leading up to the session, the group collaborated a great deal via Gmail and in person to plan it. Edith was the primary facilitator while Lisa assisted. Our activities leading up to the session included:

• Group planning
• Lisa designed the prototype.
• Lisa and Edith met to further plan the facilitation of the session just prior to it.
  

Each of us took notes.

Next steps:

• Prototype design revision -- Lisa
• Re-design task analysis -- Edith
• Summarize the second session -- Karen
  
• Design a new logo and graphics for the presentation -- Karen
• Propose presentation ideas and design the presentation -- Group

Since the session, Karen has summarized the notes and designed a new logo based on an inspiration from the session. Edith has been working on the task analysis. Lisa has been working on the prototype redesign. In addition, we have shared our research papers with each other.