This is final week before the final report and presentation is due. Our plan was to have everything completed on Monday and submitted. Then we will work on the presentation on Tuesday.

On Wednesday, we’ve meet with the professor after class and received a lot of advice in regard to improving our final report, Such as sorting the table of content, and ways to clarify our contents. Before leaving, Professor Belli handed back our draft with comments made throughout the package. At night, our group member that had the draft scanned all of the pages and sent it to the rest of the members.

We all started working on our part of the final report, report back our progress, and continue to distribute our survey throughout City Tech with the help our friends’ network. On Friday, we communicated through a chat client (Skype) to keep up to date on what is missing from our work. We’ve clarified our work again and see if any other members need help with their part.

The survey, terms of use, and introduction revision was completed on Sunday night. Response data from the survey was collected from Google survey Sunday evening and used in our survey discussion. We’ve added more research materials within our final report. Such as materials we’ve had used before but left out.

On Monday night, we put everyone’s work together and all members proof read the report for errors before finalizing and submitting on to dropbox.

Progress Report

In the last class we discuss how the requirement of the final write and first draft of the collaborative project. After class, we briefly assigned part of the project report for each one of us to complete and upload to google drive. Samson is going to upload the survey rationale on openlab for professor belli to comment on it. For our synchronous meeting, we are still going to held on Skype on December 7, 2014. Tony is writing the meeting agenda for this meeting, while Samson is doing meeting minute and Goutam is writing the progress report.

For the first draft of the final collaborative project Tony, Samson and I put together everything we did over the past two month. During our meeting on Skype, we have specifically talk about what each of us need to do to accomplish the report as a whole. For the discussion part of the report, Tony is going to discuss about mobile application design and layout, and application features; Samson is going to discuss about survey and term of use, he also made a simple term of use for our mobile app; finally Goutam is writing about the report conclusion and recommendation as well as introduction.

After we have done each individual parts of the report, we have upload everything on google doc. Then we are are going to do proof reading and discuss about the error that might occur. Finally, Tony will be responsible for uploading the first draft to dropbox.

From our last meeting in class, we have presented our first draft project to the class.  During the Q&A, we  noticed that our survey was not effective towards our final app; we also learned that for our bulletin feature, rather than create a fully developed term of use, its better to embed it somewhere on the screen where its easy to be seen. Another thing that we have to improve is to include follow up question in survey for analysis purpose.

Over the thanksgiving weekend, Goutam and Samson have came up with a modified survey which will be available in dropbox and openlab. we will also have it ready for in class survey  next week. In addition, Samson was working on  rationale of the survey and have it posted on OpenLab. In terms of app, we have most of our expected features created in the app and Tony have made a demo version that is displayable in ios device. Hopefully when we finish conducting the survey on next wednesday, we could made some modifications to the demo accordingly of what users are looking forward to.

For this week synchronous meeting on skype and wechat, we have take turns writing agenda and minute, etc. Goutam is doing meeting agenda; Samson is writing meeting minute; Tony is writing the progress report for the week and he will also be doing revision and submit all works to both dropbox and openlab. During our meeting,  we have discussed about our first draft presentation, it is  mainly about what we need to improve in the final presentation and prepare all information and materials needed for the final report.  We have gone over our finalized survey and term of use for bulletin. Hopefully next week, we would have everything ready to be submit and ready for final presentation.