Thursday, April 26, 2007

Meeting this Saturday?

Hi guys, the presenation is done and over with. I think it was an ok presentation, but I still can't help feeling that we really should have put in a time line of events like the other groups did. Because then we would look like we know what our goal was and stuff, but that's ok.

Anyhow, we kind of grazed the idea that we should meet this weekend. I suggest Saturday evening or late afternoon. It's about to be week 5... our time is quickly closing to strangle us all! Umm, yah so if we could meet sometime this weekend, whichever day works best... I think we should meet and just start talking about where exactly to start!

-Ray

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Tues project presentations

4/24 tues
after the class project presentations, our group had a chance to talk about whether we should change the powerpoint presentation by adding the project scheduling and deadlines. we discussed for a while and came up with the decision that we'll do something about it after today's(4/25) interview with Courtney, that way we'll have the problem defined and know what to do. we also talked about where and when to meet for the interview.

-Mandy

Friday, April 20, 2007

Slide for presentation in class next week

The slides for the presentation for class next week that is due Sun/Mon
is done and can be downloaded here:

http://www.divshare.com/download/442337-9c3

Please reply w/ comments & ideas for additional notes (if any)
(will be incorporated and sent to Prof. Hollan during the weekend)

Have a good one..
/Martin

recaps of the last few days

tues 4/17
Our group met at PC around Aroma. we talked about communication methods within members and an overall general view of the project, like how should we approach the project. we also talked about setting up an interview with Courtney sometimes this week. this meeting lasted for 30 mins.

wed 4/18
it was planned to meet with Courtney around 4:30p, leaving ucsd at 4p. our group met at PC. The meeting canceled due to the assumption that Courtney leaves work at 6pm, but she left early at 5pm. Later, our group met at 5pm inside the PC food court to discuss how the project should go and came up with questions that can help in leading the upcoming interview with Courtney more effective. We went over models in Contextual Design that can be applied to our future interviews. The meeting lasted for an hour and a half.

Thur 4/19
Our group met around CSB after viewing the 2 clips in CBS 003. we talked about the upcoming presentation, things like what kind of information should be included in the slides of our presentation. this meeting lasted f0r 20 mins.

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Meeting w/ S.D.O.F

The first meeting with Courtney Gosch (program director) and Carl Robbins (innovator) has been scheduled to Wednesday at 4pm. Suggesting that we leave UCSD at 3:30pm. The Google Calendar has been updated to include this event.

In the future please post messages that can be considered to be public/discussion or relevant to project/process documentation to this blog. It will leave "a trail of artifacts" that we need
further on (ex. comments/replies to this meeting should be posted as comments to this post)

The Google account information for documents, calendar, blog should have reached your inbox, if not, drop me an email.

/Martin

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Welcome to the development blog

General information:
This blog is used to post activities related to the interface/system developement of the San Diego Oceans Foundation / Reef project as a part of the Cognitive Engineering (cogs102c) class at UCSD. Stay tuned...

Initial objectives:
This project will include many aspects besides the design of the interface and pure technology. We strive to perfom a complete overhaul of information management process and technology used for the foundation on the REEF project. All the way from how information is collected by an individual and how he/she will transfer and categorize it in a central database that can be further shared by the world. The project will utilize the methods of Contextual Design.

Organization website:
San Diego Oceans Foundation
http://www.sdoceans.org/
The volunteer REEF research project
http://www.sdoceans.org/programs/armp/armp.php

Team members:
Edmond Yee
Jessica Famula
Mandy Wong
Martin Tall
Raymond Fong

Team meetings:
Wednesday 5-7pm at Price center/Cafe Roma