Placeholder - Lecture 2

08/31/09

Design 1 Lecture

Weekend 1

8/30/09

Today, I went over the documentation for the Spell Bowl project, to assess the current situation. I found these things:

1. The project is near deployment
2. There are some minor bugs that require fixes
3. The new word list needs updating
4. Voices need to be standardized

The link to the public SpellBowl site.

Lab 1

8/26/09

Lab1 - Introduction to the team, project, sample design exercise

Today, we went through the introduction of the team and the projects involved. We also went through and assigned basic roles for the team and projects.

The project partner: KES (Klondike Elementary School)

The team members are:
Professor Gray - Advisor
Charles - T/A
Michelle link
River link
Kelli link
Taylor link
Baseer link
Jacob link
James link
Shriram link

I was assigned as the Project Leader for the SpellBowl Project.

We also performed a design exercise, where we divided into teams; I was teamed with Michelle, River, and Kelli.
The design spec:

We took to a very productive brainstorm session, remembering exactly who the target market was, and with some information gained from the project partner meeting, we finalized this design:


Next week - Project Partner meeting! Visit to KES!

First Post - Lecture 1

8/24/09

Today was the first lecture; we covered the basics of EPICS, as an introduction to new members.