Initial Proposal

Form your project team, set your direction, and begin your journey. In this phase, decide what interactive system or device you want to address, why you want to work on it, and how you will engage in development and evaluation. Work to formulate an innovative research contribution. Balance your dreams for innovation with the practicalities of the time frame. Identify the lowest hanging fruit.  

In this initial version of your proposal, fulfill the below Proposal Specification, with these 2 modifications:

• Skip the Prior Work Write-up, but include an initial list of prior works. Do make sure to begin identifying and thinking about relevant prior work.
• For each research component, provide only a brief summary statement with an outline. Omit specification of details until after you get feedback on your plan. Do think about them, though.

Brainstorm about potential interactive experience, system, device, and/or service projects. Pay attention to your process, to avoid fixation!

• First individually. Each teammate must:

• Meditate. Take notes / sketch about your own ideas.
• Read background articles and prior work.
• Research potential toolkits, APIs, and devices to work with
• Express ideas in whatever medium you wish.

• Meet as a group

• Develop mutual understanding.
• Synthesize ideas.
• Develop consensus.

• Iterate.

The project proposal describes the problem/need/desire your team's project will address, who the users will be, the specific tasks they will want/need to accomplish or activities they will conduct using your system, and an initial description of hardware, software, and design components you will need to prototype.

In The Proposal deliverable, you will learn about how to:

• work as a team;
• conceptualize innovative research;
• write a research proposal;
• formulate a coherent and achievable research plan;
• position your research vis-a-vis prior work; and
• articulate your research contribution and methodology in writing.