Transcript Innovation Project S2012

SISYA200
Innovation Project 2012-13
Periods III-IV
Course homepage:
http://www.uta.fi/sis/yhteiset/innovaatioprojekti/index.html
Timo Poranen (UTA/SIS, responsible teacher)
+ other project supervisors from UTA/SIS
Email: [email protected]
www-page: http://www.sis.uta.fi/~tp54752
Office: B1023
Initial lecture 11.1.2013
•Video: What is Demola? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfkGWgyPkf4
•Experimental Mobile Haptic Game: Commander
•Nokia Kinetic Prototype of bendable smartphone
•Course information:
– Curriculum
– LiveManual
– Credits and grading, schedule
– Demola profile, project applications
– Moodle (course registration, discussion forum), Project blog
– Teacher’s role, problems, recommendations
•One more sample project: YLE's Virtual Studio
•Questions and answers
Demola – www.demola.fi
Video: What is Demola?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfkGWgyPkf4
Curriculum
•New course for all SIS students.
•Intermediate studies in Computer Science, Information Studies and
Interactive Media, and Interactive Technology.
•Students work in a project team to produce a demo or an interactive
demonstration.
– Teams have students from TAMK, UTA and TUT.
– A Demola facilitator and university supervisors support the team.
•The course is organised with Demola and teams work daily in the Demola
premises.
•Project topics are related to new technology and services (new mobile
phones, innovative www/mobile applications, games, etc.).
•Learning goals:
http://www.uta.fi/sis/yhteiset/innovaatioprojekti/curricula.html
Course’s suitability
•I have studied course TIEA4 (Project Work). Can I still take Innovation
project?
– Yes. Your credits can be used in other studies -category.
•I'm majoring in Interactive technology. Can I study Innovation Project
(SISYA200) instead of Project Work (TIEA4)?
– Yes.
•I’m majoring in Software Development / Information systems. Can I study
Innovation Project (SISYA200) instead of Project Work (TIEA4)?
– No, SPM (TIETS19) still require TIEA4.
•I'm majoring in Information studies and interactive media. Can I study
Innovation Project (SISYA200) instead of Interactive Media Project (ITIMA25)
as my compulsory course?
– Yes.
Project lifecycle
•Reviews: Project plan review, 2 mid-project reviews, final
project report review.
•Deliverables: Project plan, final report, NABC (Need,
Approach, Benefits, Competition) pitches (“presentations”),
project blog and Demo. There might be other deliverables too!
•Workshops.
•Kick-off and graduation events.
A sample project - LiveManual
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http://uusitehdas.fi/news/demola-academy-nurtures-success
Students after real life solutions
The first Demola Academy winner project was Live-Manual, a project
ordered by Metso to develop a more user-friendly manual. Members of
the Live-Manual team, Jussi Ahola, Eero Ojanperä and Tomi Turtiainen,
say they could have achieved their credits with a lot less work…
– … but that would not have been as rewarding. It would not have
motivated us. And the opportunity of doing something in a new way
offered by Demola was more important than the credits: a possibility of
learning, using new tools and nimble techniques, getting experience in
project work.
– We learned by doing. Hitting on a solution that worked had a great
energising effect on us.
LiveManual – project phases
1. Project Requirements Gathering - regular meetings with
Metso to understand their needs.
2. Requirements Analysis - brain storming, listed all ideas
which we thought of and realized them one by one based on
the priority and implementation difficulty.
3. Concept Design – define what the new demo should be like,
what kind of features should be there, for example how to
show the navigation column etc. Draw different versions of
the interface. Proceed based on these. Searched needed
resources from the internet, self learning and transfer all
those new ideas and knowledge into our product.
LiveManual
4. Development – added needed features one by one. Meanwhile, continued
to improve the interface design and made it look better.
5. Integration – put different parts together and integrate with the database.
6. Testing – we devised questionnaires and tested the manual. The test
requirements and description were prepared in advance. The first test was
done with some volunteers, the test subjects were students and those
students had some IT related knowledge. The second test was done in
Metso, with staff from different backgrounds. The test results were
collected and discussed based on feedback and comments. Some issues
that came up in the tests were fixed.
7. Demonstration & Possible Deployment – show the demo in the final
customer meeting, if the customer wants, they can license the demo.
Credits and grading
•Credits are based on amount of (productive) work in your
project. 1 ECTS corresponds to 20 hours of work in your project
(5 ECTS equals to 100-119 working hours, 10 ECTS equals to
>200 hours).
•All students should work at least 100 hours (= 5 ECTS) for their
project.
•Working hours are reported weekly in the project blog.
•Grading is based on the process, outcome and personal
activity in the project.
Schedule – main deadlines
•http://www.uta.fi/sis/yhteiset/innovaatioprojekti/schedule.html
•Join Moodle forum of the course no later than 27.1.
•Create Demola profile and apply for projects 27.1.
•Project plan deadline in Feb, a review after that.
•Reviews: March and April.
– A review? What the team has done since last meeting, a
demo, and what the team is going to do next.
•Final project report deadline in May, a review after that.
•Graduation event 21.5.2013.
•Credits and grading: May/June.
•Training sessions, workshops, group work, and other project
activities.
Demola profile, project applications
•Create a Demola profile and apply for interesting projects no
later than 27.1.2013.
•Pay attention on writing a good application. Skills and
motivation are important.
•You may (and should!) apply to different projects but you’ll
be selected to one project.
•In your profile/application tell your experiences, wishes,
language restrictions (if you can’t participate in an English
language project), etc.
•Course and Demola staff will inform you on your project in
the end of week 5 or 6.
•It is possible that there is no suitable project for you .
Moodle
•All UTA/SIS students must join course’s Moodle forum.
•Address: https://learning2.uta.fi/course/view.php?id=1593
•Forum name: SISYA200 Innovationproject
•Key: innoS2013
•All important course messages (to UTA/SIS students) will be
sent to the “News” forum. Demola has an own information
channel for their messages/news to project teams (on
workshops etc.).
•Discussion forum can be used for asking/commenting
project/course related questions.
Project blog
•Project blog is a public web-based diary, where project team publishes
the current status of the project. The project blog shows how the
project is progressing in general.
•Blog uses Demola’s project platform.
•Regularity: Weekly.
•It is important to bring out some key issues and challenges concerning
the current stage of the project.
•Team should divide the blogging so that each team member writes the
project blog at some point.
•Teams should report their working hours (John Doe, 15 hours this
week, 60 hours so far. All project hours: 290.) and main activities done
during the week (John: meeting with the client, review meeting with
supervisor, usability testing, coding,…).
Teacher's role
•Each student has a responsible teacher assigned to him/her from the
course. A team might have up to three supervisors from different
universities!
•Teachers are there to support your learning and to help you
– Checking how you are doing
– To give help and support when you need it
– To watch the amount and quality of your work to verify that you
can pass the course
•Teachers participate in main reviews (project plan etc.) and meetings
and give feedback based on those. (They don't have time to participate in
all of meetings.)
– Make sure that the teacher knows about all reviews and can
participate.
Guidelines
•http://www.uta.fi/sis/yhteiset/innovaatioprojekti/guidelines.html
•Important - All students must read these:
– Demola-academy-students.pdf: Slide set for students (PDF)
– Co-creation_meetings_checklist.pdf: Co-creation meetings checklist
(PDF)
– Student_checklist.pdf: Checklist for a student in a team (PDF,
Important!)
– Central_principles_of_project_work_checklist.pdf: Central principles of
project work (PDF, Important!)
– Checklist for project partner (PDF)
– Project blog guidelines (PDF, important)
Problems in your project?
•It is normal that when a group of people is working together in a
technical project, there might be problems with
– Team members
– Client
– Technical devices
– Design and implementation
– Etc.
•All teams should be able to solve “small problems” together, but in case
of serious problems, contact project supervisor and Demola staff.
•Tell about your project obstacles in review meetings and in the project
blog.
Findings from earlier projects
•Meet your team at least weekly! Your project needs roughly 10-15
hours work / week.
•More group work instead of working alone, participate in workshops.
•Do not forget to inform your university supervisor on your project
reviews. Preferably, days and times should be agreed in advance in the
project plan review.
•Use good project working practices: send a meeting agenda
beforehand and write down meeting minutes (and send to all
stakeholders).
•Put your project’s name in email’s subject field.
•Select and use suitable tools, enough management, …
•Update project plan regularly and/or maintain tasks / work packages
using some tool (excel, project management sotware, Demola’s project
tool,…).
YLE's Virtual Studio project
•Website: http://tampere.demola.fi/node/5016
•Tohloppi’s VIRTU is the only virtual studio in
Finland that functions in daily production use. How
could we utilize motion capture in our
productions?
•NABC from “mid project” pitching:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGtQG5pfR0o
•Efficient communication: blog posts, facebookgroup.
Questions and answers?