Tutorial Mania

After watching the facebook demonstration executed by Erik, I realised that I needed to do research into web server programming. The language he used to make the facebook app is Php, a recursive acrynoym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. From my understanding, it is a scripting language that creates server side commands to make an html page.

When reading a tutorial on PHP, the article directed me to another tutorial on Web Hosting and MYSQL.

Web Hosting tutorial goes over the basics of the types of web hosting servers and their possible uses. It talks about buying a domain name, bandwidth issues, backup, and other essentials.

The tutorials for PHP and MySQL were much longer. I skimmed through them, but I didn't get a chance to try out any of the samples codes because I don't have my own web server...

personal commentary

Since I'm still kind of confused on how to access the other blog, i'll write my commentary here. This week we met tuesday, wednesday, and thursday to begin our visioning process and storyboarding. For visioning, we used our affinity diagram to come up with different solutions to problems our users had encountered, and during storyboarding we were able to detail the sequence of steps our users would take in the newly designed website. This week we'll probably start on our UED and paper prototypes.

-takashi

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p.commentary, wk 6

Last week our group finished up our work models and began constructing the affinity diagram as well as consolidate our models. We held meetings on monday through thursday. Tuesday through thursday we met up at Zach's house; I helped work on the affinity diagram as well as the cultural model with Elisa. We tried looking at all the individual cultural models of our users and tried to incorporate the general and other significant influencers on the user from these models. I also helped look over the consolidated sequence model. This week, we have planned to meet and discuss visioning, storyboarding, and making the UED, as well as work on the group data presentation. We also will work on other physical/artifact models we need to do and to "walk" the consolidated data we have so each of us will have a better understanding of the problems and the issues that we need to be aware of to move on with the re-design process.
[clarisse m]

Monday Meeting and Plans for Week 7

MONDAY MEETING
Settled on meeting times:
Tues, Wed, Thurs @ 5pm in Geisel Science & Engineering Library.

To-do list:
1. Walk through Affinity Diagram and Consolidated Models to get everyone on the same page.
2. Visioning crazy ideas and solutions.
3. Settle on which ideas are possible and realistic.
4. Create storyboards of the newly designed world in order to better our focus.
5. Create UED/structure with focus areas and links.
6. Polish up the interface.

In parallel, always need to keep final presentation and paper in mind


PLANS FOR WEEK 7 (tentative)
(Tues) Walk the Affinity Diagram, discuss consolidated models, envision
(Wed) Create storyboards, begin UED structure and focus areas
(Thurs) Keep revising UED
(Fri) NO MEETING

WEEK 8
Perhaps meet on Sunday?
Monday meeting- discuss the week's goals
Tues- Begin prototype / Start on presentation
Wed- Revise prototype /Presentation
Thurs- Interface / Presentation

WEEK 9
Interview about 4 users with prototype?
Consolidate results
Revise UED
Work on presentation and paper

WEEK 10
Presentations

FINAL WEEK
Paper

PC for week 6

On Monday, Professor Hollan stopped by our weekly on campus meeting and evaluated our progress with some helpful comments/suggestions. Later that day I finished, refined, and printed out the sequence models for users three and four and emailed them to Elisa to look over.
Tuesday night we met at Zach's place and extracted (from our interpretation session notes) any significant problems or comments from the users and wrote them each on a post-it. After we had finished going through all of the users, we began posting and organizing them on the wall until we saw some categories start to form (and reform…).
On Wednesday, I helped in starting the consolidation of the sequence models and we came up with a summary of the sequence models for users one through five, and nine.
This coming Monday we will meet again at 11am in Solis 111 to discuss the presentation for this week as well as future meeting times to start working on the UED, storyboards, and prototype.

~HoSoo Shin

personal commentary 5/13

On Monday we had our data and different work models evaluated by Professor Holland. On Tuesday I worked on the affinity diagram with the team. Each of us chose two of our interviewed users to make post-its on, and later we categorized all of our post-its into a sensible affinity diagram. On Thursday, I worked w/ the team on creating presentations for the following week and reviewed sequence and cultural consolidation models that clarisse and angela had worked on. After doing our presentations we plan to walk through our affinity diagram, start thinking of UED, storyboards, etc.

-takashi