Final Writeup for Projects

This is the place where you write up your project as a complete entity, from start to finish. You will probably be using text from your previous writeups, but this should be a stand alone document. Both format and content should be appropriate for submission to a conference such as CHI.

The content of a paper such as this should include your entire argument from start to finish, as described in the description of group projects . As with your proposal , you should lay out the problem you are trying to solve, the technology with which you solved it, and your metrics for success. Additionally, you should describe your proof that this problem was solved.

I generally advise my students to approach a paper with the follow questions in mind:
  1. What did I do? This is the place where you lay out the problem, and state your hypothesis
  2. Why is it interesting? In answering this question, you may want to give the bigger picture related to your problem
  3. How is it different from past work? This is your literature survey
  4. How did I do it? Here you describe your user study, methods, & etc
The actual sections in your paper will probably be something like:
  1. Abstract
  2. Introduction
  3. Background
  4. Motivating Example
  5. User Study 
  6. Method
  7. Experimental Setup (task, subjects, etc)
  8. Analysis of Results
  9. Discussion
  10. Conclusions & Future Work
The format of your paper should fit the requirements laid out in the CHI publications format guide .You may also find the guide for authors of full papers informative.

Your papers should be between 6 and 8 pages long, including Figures, references, and all other extraneous matter. You will be graded on the following:

1) Written Presentation (1/3) -- includes spelling, grammar, and general understandability
2) Quality of Argument (2/3) -- does the argument layed out in the paper make sense, is it sufficiently grounded in related work, is the hypothesis what was actually proven or disproven, and so on