First joint meeting held at SAFER

Today we had our first joint meeting together with the supervisors and the other students who are also conducting their thesis at SAFER. Here we first present to the rest of the group what we’ve done so far and what we will focus on in the next step so they can provide us with feedback. This type of meeting will reoccur every other Friday at 10.

So far most of our work has consisted of reading, to get more and deeper knowledge about the different areas involved. We’ve also made a rough time estimation for our complete thesis work which we feel is quite realistic.

Our preliminary schedule:

• Week 6 - 8 : Divergence phase / document all the used methods
• Week 9 : Preparations for the Heuristics evaluations / have the expert evaluation / write down results in the method chapter
• Week 10 - 11 : (Eventually redesign after findings made in the expert evaluation week 10) / Write down in method chapter and start with the introduction / Start with GUI in Flash
• Week 12 - 13 : Continue with flash GUI, deadline by Friday week 13
• Week 14 - 15 : Preparations for simulator testing
• Week 16 : Simulation testing / Write down in method part
• Week 17 - 18 : Writing week, write down results, finish method, introduction etc.
• Week 19 - 20 : Write analysis and discussion
• Week 21 - 23 : Write, rewrite and finish the Thesis.

So the next step for us now will be to start working on our divergence phase; to start making sketches of different design proposals and therefore we have to dig deeper into the ecological design method, and practices for how it can be applied. This information is vital for us to start working on our design sketches which we are planning to begin with sometime during next week. And of course we will continue reading as well.